MIRA ARIEL, Ph.D.
Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978
Phone No.: 972-3-6409093; Fax No.: 972-3-5221044
Email: mariel@post.tau.ac.il
MIRA ARIEL, Ph.D.
Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978
Phone No.: 972-3-6409093; Fax No.: 972-3-5221044
Email: mariel@post.tau.ac.il
Mira Ariel: CV
EDUCATION
1974-6 Tel Aviv University,
Undergraduate in Linguistics & English Literature.
1976-8 University of Pennsylvania Phila. Pa.,
Graduate school in Linguistics.
May 22 1978 M.A.,
Title of master's thesis: That's a problem in Hebrew,
Advisor: Ellen F Prince.
Summer 78 University of Illinois, Summer Institute of Linguistics.
1979-86 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics.
May 25 1986 Ph.D.,
Title of doctoral dissertation: Givenness Marking,
Advisors: Tanya Reinhart and Ellen Prince.
1986-7 University of. London, Sociolinguistics,
Post-Doc: Honorary research fellow.
TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT RECENTLY
Advanced methodological seminar: Semantic/pragmatic topics (seminar)
Or: A research seminar (seminar)
Introduction to Pragmatics (course)
Language and Power (course)
Linguistic-Extralinguistic Interfaces (proseminar)
Discourse Reference (seminar)
Pragmatic Theories (seminar)
Grammar and Pragmatics (seminar)
Accessibility Theory (course)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
June 2017 LOT (The National Graduate School of Holland), Linguistics, Visiting Scholar
Sept. 2014 Lund University, Intensive course for PhD students: Grammar/Pragmatics Interfaces
Jun/Jul 2012 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Special intensive courses (with John Du Bois), Visiting Scholar
2006- Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Full Professor
Aug 2001 LSA Summer Institute, Linguistics
Jan 1999 LOT (The National Graduate School of Holland), Linguistics, Visiting Scholar
1998-2006 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Associate Professor
1992-98 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Senior lecturer
1988-92 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Lecturer
1986-87 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Instructor-Dr
1982-86 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Instructor
1979-81 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Assistant
1978-81 Tel Aviv University, Foreign Languages, Teacher
1978-79 Tel Aviv University, Linguistics Department, Teaching fellow
1978-79 Seminar Hakibbutzim, English Dept, Teacher
1977 University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics Department, Part-time lecturer
1976 University of Pennsylvania, Phila., Pa., Oriental Studies Department, Teaching fellow
STUDENTS
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Talia Rubovitz-Mann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000 (committee member)
Topic: Extractions from relative clauses – an information structure account
Takaaki Hara, Utrecht University, 2002 (committee member)
Topic: Anaphoric dependencies in Japanese
Dana Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004 (committee member)
Topic: Intensive reflexives – from sentence to discourse
Noga Balaban, Tel Aviv University, 2011 (supervision together with Naama Friedmann)
Topic: Linguistic implications of acquired damage to “Theory of Mind”
Ofir Zussman, Tel Aviv University, 2014
Topic: Grammaticization processes of concessive constructions
Marit Shternau, Tel Aviv University, 2014 (supervision together with Rachel Giora)
Topic: Levels of interpretation: Linguistic meaning and inferences
Elitzur Dattner, Tel Aviv University, 2015
Topic: Mapping Hebrew Dative Constructions
Daniel Kalev, Tel Aviv University, 2018 (supervision together with Uri Mor)
Topic: Modern times: New aspectual and modal constructions in contemporary Hebrew
Ruti Bardenstein, Tel Aviv University, 2021
Topic: Grammaticization paths of rectification constructions (מסלולי גרמטיזציה של מבני המרה)
Itai Kupershmidt, Tel Aviv University, 2022 (supervision together with Moshe Forentin)
Topic: Alternative Relations in Biblical Hebrew: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Study
(יחס הברירה בעברית המקרא: עיון תחבירי, סמנטי ופרגמטי)
Alon Fishman, Ph.D student, Tel Aviv University, 2023 (Supervision with Yeshayahu Shen)
Topic: Copulative perception verbs: What ‘looks’ can teach us about evidentiality and synesthesia
Shirli Orr, Ph.D student, Tel Aviv University, 2024 (Supervision together with Orna Peleg)
Topic: Predicating truth: an empirical investigation
Israela Becker, Tel Aviv University, 2024 (Supervision together with Rachel Giora)
Topic: Constructions “on the move”:
From independent-sentential to lexical constructions
Nina Luskin, Hebrew University, 2007- (committee member)
Topic: Negative polarity items and discourse information structure
Oshri Weiss, Hebrew University, 2008- (committee member)
Topic: A pragmatic perspective of the differences between individuals in performing reasoning tasks
Nicole Katzir, Ph.D student, Tel Aviv university, 2020-
MA STUDENTS
Nurit Assayag, 1999 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Subject selection in discourse: Cognitive constraints and genre effects
Yafa Rosenfeld, 2000 (Tel Aviv University) (No thesis)
Evan Gary Cohen, 2003 (Tel Aviv University
Thesis title: The pragmatics-phonology interface: Accessibility and reduction – Hebrew possessives
Iman Midlige, 2003- (Tel Aviv University)
Ruti Kahalon-Bardenstein, 2005 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: הפרגמטיקה של כמתי הקטנה בעברית (The pragmatics of Hebrew diminutive quantifiers)
Meira Hass, 2008 (Tel Aviv University) (No thesis)
Elitzur Dattner, 2008 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Lower transitivity constructions in Hebrew: The case of motion verbs
Roey Gafter, 2008 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Where they linger on: motivating the current distribution of plural feminine pronouns in Hebrew.
Fainan Ganem, 2008- (Tel Aviv University)
Tal Linzen, 2009 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Hebrew Possessive Datives: The effects of affectedess
Hillel Taub-Tabib, 2009 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Subject-verb inversion in Hebrew intransitive clauses
Dolly Goldenberg 2010- (Tel Aviv University)
Maria Goldshtein, 2015 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: A discourse-based typology of intensifiers
Shaul Lev, 2016 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Hebrew Labile Alternation
Shirly Malichi-Or 2016 (Tel Aviv University, supervision with Orna Peleg)
Thesis title: The case of literally true propositions with flase implicatures
Israela Becker 2016 (Tel Aviv University, supervision with Rachel Giora)
Thesis title: The Negation Operator is not a Suppressor of the Concept in its Scope. In fact, Quite the Opposite
Elior Elkayam 2018 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: From predication to prediction: The grammaticalization of the Hebrew verb haya
Daniel Asherov 2016 (Tel Aviv University, supervision with Evan Cohen and Outi Bat El) (No thesis)
Nicole Katzir 2019 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: Minimum and maximum constructions: Semantics and argumentation
Yael Barkai 2018- (Tel Aviv University)
Ka Yau (Ryan) Lai 2020-2021 (UC Santa Barbara) (Committee member)
Thesis title: Beyond anaphoric and emphatic: Diversity and unity in the functions of Literary Chinese reflexive zì
Shaul Ashkenazi 2019 (Tel Aviv University)
Anat Sageev 2020- (Tel Aviv University, supervision with Letizia Cerqueglini)
Elinoar Gannani 2022 (Tel Aviv University, supervision with Evan Cohen)
Thesis title: Phonological reduction as a marker for modalization in verbs in Israeli Hebrew
Ittamr Erb 2022 (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis title: From synchrony to diachrony and back: the case of Hebrew pronominal possessives
VISITING SCHOLARS FULBRIGHT/EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Dr. Kristina Zaides Postdoc Oct. 2022-Sept. 2023
Prof. Patrick Duffley March 2018, Laval University, Canada
Scott Spicer, 2014-15; 2016-17, Northwestern university
HONORS AND AWARDS
2021- Member of the Academia Europea
2020-24 Israel Science Foundation grant 1398/20:
Expressing quantities in language
2019-20 Vice-President of The Societas Linguistica Europaea
2018-19 President of The Societas Linguistica Europaea
2018 School of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna (Sept.)
2017-18 President-elect The Societas Linguistica Europaea
2015-20 Israel Science Foundation grant 431/15:
Or constructions: From Logic-Based to Usage-Based analysis
2009-13 Israel Science Foundation grant 161/09:
Challenging Gricean assumptions: Towards a corpus-based pragmatics
2003/4 Tel Aviv University grant, Most research
1992 Dvora Netzer grant, Research (with Rachel Giora)
1986 British Council, Post-Doc fellowship
1978 Tel Aviv University, Teaching fellowship
1976 University of Pennsylvania., Teaching fellowship
1976 Tel Aviv University, Dean's certificate of distinction
1975 Tel Aviv University, Dean's certificate of distinction
Publications
BOOKS
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Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents. |
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Defining Pragmatics. |
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Pragmatics and Grammar. |
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Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents. |
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Women and men in language. |
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
In press The counting principle makes number words unique. Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory. (with Natalia Levshina).
In press From location to conjunction, disjunction, partition, exemplification and association:
Hebrew bein constructions. Linguistics (Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel).
2023 Discourse context cannot make ‘or’ inclusive (only task can). Journal of pragmatics 217. 7-16.
(Alon Fishman, Daniel Asherov, Nicole Katzir and Mira Ariel).
2023 A few or several? Construal, quantity and argumentativity. Language and cognition A few or several?
Language and Cognition, 1-28. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.25 (Nicole Katzir and Mira Ariel).
2023 Mamash: Persistent argumentative strengthening. Leshonenu 85. 298-327. (Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel). (In Hebrew).
2022 The missing link between truth and intensification. Studies in language 46. 285-322. (Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel).
2021 Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis. Journal of pragmatics 185. 131-145. (Shirli Orr and Mira Ariel).
2020 Or constructions, argumentative direction and disappearing 'alternativity'. Language Sciences 81. 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.08.002
2019 How does ‘bring’ (not) change to ‘give'? Folia Linguistica 53: 2. 443-478. (Roey Gafter, Scott Spicer and Mira Ariel)
2019 Different Prominences for Different Inferences. Journal of pragmatics 154: Special issue on Prominence in Pragmatics. 103-116.
2019 Or constructions: Code, inference and cue too. Special issue on Pragmatics and constructions. Constructions and Frames 11. 193-219.
2019 Ela ('but') in the Mishna and in contemporary Hebrew (in Hebrew). Balshanut ivrit 73. (Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel)
2019 An 'alternative' core for or. Journal of Pragmatics 149. 40-59 (with Caterina Mauri)
2018 Why use or? Linguistics 56: 5. 939-994 (with Caterina Mauri)
2016 What’s a distinct or alternative? Journal of Pragmatics 103. 1-14.
2016 Revisiting the typology of pragmatic interpretations. Intercultural Pragmatics 13: 1.
2016 The effect of theory of mind impairment on language: Referring after right hemisphere damage Aphasiology,
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1137274 (Balaban, Friedmann and Ariel)
2016 Higher-level category or constructions: When many is one. Studies in pragmatics 17. 42–60.
2015 Levels of interpretation: New tools for characterizing intended meanings. Journal of pragmatics 47: 86-101. (Sternau, Ariel, Giora and Fein)
2015 Doubling up: Two upper bounds for scalars. Linguistics 53: 3.
2015 Pronominal datives: The royal road to argument status. Studies in Language 39: 257 – 321.
(With Elitzur Dattner, John W. Du Bois and Tal Linzen)
2014 What discourse can(not) teach us. International Review of Pragmatics 6: 2. 181-210.
2013 Centering, Accessibility and the next mention. Theoretical Linguistics 39: 39-58.
2012 Relational and independent and conjunctions. Lingua 122: 1692-1715.
2009 Discourse, grammar, discourse: An overview. Discourse Studies 11: 1.
2004 Most. Language 80: 4. (pp. 658-706).
2004 Accessibility marking: Discourse functions, discourse profiles, and processing cues. Special issue of Discourse Processes:
Accessibility in text and discourse. Ted J.M Sanders and Morton Ann Gernsbacher eds. 37: 2. (pp. 91-116).
2002 Privileged interactional interpretations. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 8 (pp. 1003-1044)
2002 Introduction. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 4. Special issue: Literal, minimal and salient meanings. Mira Ariel ed. (pp. 345-348).
2002 The demise of a unique concept of literal meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 4 (pp. 361-402).
1999 Cognitive universals and linguistic conventions: The case of resumptive pronouns. Studies in Language 23: 2. (pp. 217-69).
1998 The linguistic status of the “here and now”. Cognitive Linguistics 9: 3. (pp.189-237).
1998 A self versus other point of view in language: Redefining femininity and masculinity.
International Journal of Sociology of Language 129. (pp. 59-86) (with Rachel Giora).
1994 Interpreting anaphoric expressions: A cognitive versus a pragmatic approach. Journal of Linguistics 30. (pp. 3-42).
1993 The role of women in linguistic and social change: A study of pre‑state literature. Journal of Narrative and Life History
2:4. (pp. 309-332) (with Rachel Giora).
1991 The function of accessibility in a theory of grammar. Journal of Pragmatics 16: 5. (pp. 443-464).
1989 Retrieving propositions from context: Why and how. Journal of Pragmatics 12: 3/4. 1988 (pp. 567-600).
Reprinted in Asa Kasher ed. Cognitive Aspects of Language Use. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V. (pp. 63-96).
1988 Referring and accessibility. Journal of Linguistics 24: 1. (pp. 65-87).
1988 Female and male stereotypes in Israeli literature and media: Evidence from introductory patterns.
Language and Communication 8: 1. (pp. 43-68).
1985 The discourse functions of given information. Theoretical Linguistics 12: 2/3. (pp. 99-113).
1983 Linguistic marking of social prominence: The Hebrew mi she introducer. Journal of Pragmatics 7:4. (pp. 389-409).
1978 Or something, etc. Penn Review of Linguistics 3: 1. (pp. 35‑45) (with Catherine N Ball).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND PROCEEDINGS
2024 Accessibility Theory in Linguistics. In Mark Aronoff (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. (Sofiana Chiriacescu and Mira Ariel).
2023 Hocus Pocus – the discourse prominence of the reference set versus the complement set. Proceedings of the Israeli
linguistics society in honour of Haiim B. Rosén 23. 34-46. (Ziv Plotnik-Peleg, Yoni Heilig and Mira Ariel). (In Hebrew).
2023 A Usage-Based Analysis of the Semantics/pragmatics Interface. In Thomas Li (ed.)
Handbook of Cognitive Semantics, Chapter 8. Leiden: Brill.
2022 But, argument prominence, though!. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Sofiana I. Lindemann eds.
Paths through meaning and form: Festscrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
(John W DuBois and Mira Ariel)
2022 Give is not a given. In Annie Bertin, Thierry Ponchon and Olivier Soutet eds. Synchronie et diachronie: l'enjeu du sens.
Paris: Champion. (pp. 33-60). (John W DuBois and Mira Ariel)
2022 Processing polyfunctional discourse markers: Making sense of Hebrew 'harey'. In Maria-Josep Cuenca and Liesbeth Degand eds.
Discourse Markers in Interaction: From Production to Comprehension. De Gruyter. (pp. 247-276).
2021 Why it's hard to construct ad hoc number concepts. In Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria eds.
Building categories in interaction. John Benjamins. (pp. 439-462).
2017 The Case of Literally True Propositions with False Implicatures. In Innocent Chiluwa ed. Deception and Deceptive Communication:
Motivations, Recognition Techniques and Behavioral Control. New York: Nova Science
(Shirly Or, Mira Ariel and Orna Peleg). (pp. 67-108).
2017 Deniability and explicatures. In Rachel Giora & Michael Haugh (Eds.), Doing Pragmatics Interculturally:
Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton. (pp. 97-120)
(Marit Sternau, Mira Ariel, Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein).
2017 What's a reading? In Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel eds. Implicitness: From lexis to discourse. John Benjamins. (pp. 15-36).
2017 Pragmatics and grammar: More pragmatics or more grammar?
In Yan Huang ed. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.
2016 Indifference adverbial X or Y . In Alex Reuneker, Ronny Boogaart and Saskia Lensink eds. Aries netwerk: een constructicon. (pp. 11-15).
Retrievable at https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3213635
2016 A graded strength for Privileged Interactional Interpretations. In Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone & Istvan Kecskes (Eds.)
Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Switzerland: Springer. (pp. 703-723). (Marit Sternau, Mira Ariel, Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein).
2014 Or Constructions: Monosemy versus polysemy. In Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov and Edith A Moravcsik eds.
Competing Motivations. Oxford University Press. (pp. 333-347).
2014 Pragmatics. Chapter 8 in Carol Genetti ed. How languages work. Cambridge University Press. (pp. 180-199)
2013 On order, subordination and freedom. In Moshe Florentin ed. Studies in Modern Hebrew and its sources
(in memorial of Shaul Aloni. The Hebrew Academy of language (Hebrew). 109-116.
על סדר, שעבוד וחופש
2012 Research paradigms in pragmatics. In Keith Allan and Kasia Jaszczolt eds.
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2.
2012 Discourse, grammar, discourse, in Asa Kasher, ed. Pragmatics II. Routledge, London and New York.
Vol. IV, Part 12, pp. 417-452 (a reprint of Discourse Studies 11:1, 2009).
2011 Referring and accessibility. In Adele Goldberg ed. Cognitive linguistics. Routledge.
Reprinted from Journal of Linguistics 24: 1. (pp. 65-87).
2007 The demise of a unique concept of literal meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 34: 4 (pp. 361-402). Reprinted in Patrick Hanks ed.
Critical Concepts in linguistics: Lexicology, Volume V: Cognition and the lexicon. Routledge
2007 A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions. In Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharsky eds.
The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel. John Benjamins. (29 pp.)
2006 A 'just that' lexical meaning for most. In Klaus von Heusinger and Ken Turner eds. Where semantics meets pragmatics.
Amsterdam: Elsevier. (pp. 49-91)
2003 Does most mean 'more than half'? Berkeley Linguistics Society 29. (pp. 17-30)
2002 The possessive NP construction: Discourse function and discourse profile. Berkeley Linguistics Society 28. (pp. 15-26)
2001 Accessibility theory: An overview. In Ted Sanders, Joost Schliperoord and Wilbert Spooren eds. Text representation.
John Benjamins (Human cognitive processing series). (pp. 29-87)
2000 The development of person agreement markers: From pronouns to higher Accessibility markers. In Michael Barlow and
Suzanne Kemmer eds. Usage based Models of Language. CSLI. (pp. 197-260)
1999 Mapping so-called 'pragmatic' phenomena according to a 'linguistic- extralinguistic' distinction: The case of propositions marked 'accessible'.
In Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan and Kathleen Wheatley eds.
Functionalism and formalism in linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. 11-38).
1998 [An analysis of impositive speech acts: Gender biases in the new Israeli cinema discourse, in Nurith Gertz, Orly Lubin, Judd Ne’eman ed.
Fictive looks – On Israeli Cinema. Tel Aviv: The Open University (pp. 179-204). (in Hebrew, with Rachel Giora).]
נתוח של פעולות דיבור כוחניות: הטיות מיניות בשיח הקולנוע הישראלי החדש. אצל נורית גרץ, אורלי לובין, ג'אד נאמן עורכים.
מבטים פיקטיביים על קולנוע ישראלי. ת"א: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה. (179-204) (עם רחל גיורא) .
1998 Three grammaticalization paths for the development of person verbal agreement in Hebrew. In Jean-Pierre Koenig ed.
Discourse and cognition: Bridging the gap. Stanford: CSLI/Cambridge University Press. (pp. 93-111)
1998 Discourse markers and form-function correlations. In Andreas Jucker and Yael Ziv eds. Discourse markers: Descriptions and theory.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. 223-259)
1998 Applying Accessibility theory. In Asa Kasher ed. Pragmatics: Critical concepts. Vol. VI, Part Twelve: Pragmatics and grammar.
London: Routledge. (pp. 55-91). Reprinted from Ariel 1990: 1-16; 22-30; 97-105; Notes and references as appropriate.
1996 Referring expressions and the +/- coreference distinction. In Jeanette Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim eds.
Referent and Referent accessibility. John Benjamins. (pp. 13-35).
1992 Gender versus group relations analysis of impositive speech acts. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz and Birch Moonwomon eds.
Berkeley Linguistics Society 1992: Locating Power. (pp. 11-22) (with Rachel Giora).
EDITORIAL SERVICE
2022- Editorial board: Forum for Linguistic studies
2022- Review editor Frontiers in language sciences
2021- Editorial board: Linguistic Typology at the crossroads
2013- Editorial board: Cognitive Linguistic Studies
2012- Editorial board: Semantics and pragmatics (Online Journal)
2012-2015 Advisory board: RefNet Project, UK
2011– Editorial board: Pragmatic interfaces (book series), Equinox
2010– Editorial board: Linguistic Cognitive Science
2010– Editorial board: Intercultural Pragmatics
2007– Advisory board: Studies in meaning and communication (book series), Davis Group.
2004–2012 Editorial board: Cognitive Linguistics.
2002 Journal of pragmatics 34: 4 Special issue: Literal, minimal and salient meanings
2001– Advisory board: Journal of Pragmatics.
1998–2004 Consulting board: Cognitive Linguistics.
1982–2004 Noga, Israel’s feminist magazine. (eds: Rachel Ostrowitz, Mira Ariel, Rachel Giora, Erela Daor and Miri Krassin), Hebrew.
נגה (עורכות: רחל אוסטרוביץ, מירה אריאל, רחל גיורא, אראלה דאור ומירי קרסין)
BOOK REVIEWS
2011 A review of Yael Maschler’s Metalanguage in interaction: Hebrew discourse markers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1154-1156).
2008 A review of A Goldberg’s Constructions at work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Language 84 (632-636).
1996 A review of Y Huang's The syntax and pragmatics of anaphora. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. Language 72 (pp. 422-3).
1996 A review of K Lambrecht's Information structure and sentence form. Cambridge: Cambridge university press.
Journal of Linguistics 32 (pp. 205-10).
1995 A review of R Perkins' Deixis Grammar and culture. Journal of Pragmatics 23 (pp. 455-9).
1994 A review of Y Azmon & D N Izraeli eds. Women in Israel. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 28 (pp. 59-61).
1994 A review of T Givon's English Grammar. Journal of Pragmatics 22 (pp. 549-55).
1990 A review of T Katriel's Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture. Journal of Pragmatics 14 (pp. 333 6).
1989 A review of B A Fox's Discourse Structure and Anaphora. Journal of Linguistics 25 (pp. 493 8).
1986 A review of J L Mey's Whose Language: A Study in Linguistic Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics 10 (pp. 123 9).
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
2006 Accessibility theory. Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (second edition), Vol. I. Edited by Keith Brown.
Oxford: Elsevier, (pp. 15-18).Reprinted in Jacob L Mey’s Concise Encyclopedia of pragmatics. Elsevier. (2006, pp. 1-4).
2000 Pragmatics. Encyclopedia of psychology. American psychology association. New York:
Oxford University Press, (pp. 272-275) (with Rachel Giora).
1998 Pragmatic operators. Concise encyclopedia of pragmatics. Amsterdam: Elsevier. (pp.704-707).
A minimally revised version of the entry in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
1995 פרגמטיקה לשונית. האנציקלופדיה העברית כרך מילואים ג'. תשנ"ה. עמ' 861-863.
(Linguistic pragmatics, the Hebrew Encyclopedia supplement volume 3, pp. 861-863).
1993 Pragmatic operators. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford:Pergamon Press. (pp. 3250-53).
CONFERENCES and COLLOQUIA (since 1999)
2024 Workshop on the relations between space, language and numbers, Tubingen (Sept)
Comparing Spatial Conceptualizations: Collective Numerals in Hebrew (poster) Katzir and Ariel
2024 The Rosen linguistics society, Tel Aviv (March)
Usage-based grammar explains the acquisition of ‘or’ construction (in Hebrew) (with Inbal Arnon and Shira Tal)
2024 Theoretical and experimental pragmatics, Pavia (Feb)
Rethinking approximation in round numbers (poster) (Katzir, Levshina, and Ariel)
2023 AMPrA Graduate student workshop on experimental pragmatics: Bridging theory and praxis (Nov.) -- Online plenary
Testing for interpretations versus truth-compatible representations
2023 XPRAG, Paris (Sept.)
Scalar structure cannot impose semantic meaning (poster, Orr, Ariel and Shetreet).
2023 Colloquium on Cyclicity and the Theory of Language Change, Manchester (Jul.)
The or cycle (with Caterina Mauri)
2023 Bar Ilan Linguistics Colloq (March)
Prominence tips the scales in opposing argumentative constructions
2023 Int’l webinar on Cognitive and Pragmatic Approach to Lexis and Grammar (Moscow City University) (March) – Online Keynote
Prominence tips the scales in opposing argumentative constructions
2022 AMPRA, Columbia, South Carolina (Nov.)
What's wrong with 'inclusive' or and with verification tasks?
(Ariel, Asherov, Fishman, Katzir)
2022 TOWOCOLP-3 workshop, Tomsk (Oct.) – Online Keynote
Opposing argumentative constructions and discourse prominence
2022 XPRAG, Pavia (Sept.)
Participant control over tasks testing weak scalar expressions
(Shetreet, Tehan and Ariel)
2022 XPRAG, Pavia (Sept.) -- poster
Scalar diversity, boundedness and subjectivity
(Orr, Ariel, and Shetreet)
2022 The Israeli Linguistics Society in honour of Haiim Rosén— Online (Feb.)
Hocus Pocus – Referent prominence in various affirmative and negative constructions (in Hebrew).
(Plotnik, Heilig and Ariel)
2021 MIT Brain and Cognitive Science (Edward Gibson's Lab) (Nov)
Number words are punctual, stubbornly
(with Natalia Levshina)
2021 Usage-Based Linguistics 5 (Jul)
Mind the gap: Interpretation versus verification -- Online
(Katzir, Asherov, Fishman and Ariel)
2021 Usage-Based Linguistics 5 (Jul)
Number words, prototype structure and density -- Online
2021 Conference on linguistic change, Israel academy of Science — Online (April)
Discourse prominence, argumentative direction and semanticization (in Hebrew)
2021 The Israeli Linguistics Society in honour of Haiim Rosén— Online (Feb.)
Mamash 'real(ly)' and its sisters (Bardenstein and Ariel)
2020 Cambridge Linguistics Forum — Online (Nov.)
The crucial role of Truth-compatible inferences
2020 Workshop on the prominence of inferences, Univ. of Cologne — Online (Sept.)
Exceptives and the prominence competition
2020 Societas Linguistica Europea, Bucharest— Online (August)
Hebrew harey: Sometimes old, sometimes new
2020 Societas Linguistica Europea, Bucharest — Online (August)
What do or constructions say? (Fishman, Asherov, Katzir, Arnon & Ariel)
2020 ABRALIN, Brazil —Online (July)
How do or constructions evolve? (Invited lecture)
2020 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem — Online (May)
Exceptives, arguments, counter-arguments, and prominence
2019 Societas Linguistica Europea, Leipzig (August)
Rescuing meaning from logic (Presidential address)
2019 East China Normal University, Shanghai (May)
The uniqueness of number words (Invited lecture)
2019 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (May)
Who put those meanings in my mouth? (Invited lecture)
2019 East China Normal University Workshop on contemporary perspectives on language and its uses:
Cognitive, functional, and pragmatic (Keynote) (May)
2019 ZAS workshop on The meaning of numerals: Cognitive, experimental, and semantic perspectives, Berlin (March)
Numerous puzzles
2018 The 43rd Annual Boston University conference on language development (Poster, Tal, Arnon and Ariel)
Children's task-related comprehension of or (Nov.)
2018 The VI-th International Forum on Cognitive Modelling, Tel Aviv
Numeral are (almost) forever )keynote) (Oct.)
2018 The School of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
What's in a numeral? (Sept.)
2018 Societas Linguistica Europaea, Talinn
Evolving three-argument 'give' verbs (August)
2018 The Fourth Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv
Conference organizer (with Dorit Ravid) (July)
2018 The Fourth Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv
How do children interpret or? (Tal, Arnon and Ariel) (July)
2018 The Formal semantics and grammaticization Hebrew University group, Jerusalem
Evolving or constructions: In and out of ‘alternativity’ (June)
2018 UC Santa Barbara
Tell me who your neighbors are (March)
2017 Building categories in interaction: multidisciplinary approaches to categorization workshop
(Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini Eugenio Goria, organizers) Bologna University
Ad hoc-ization of numeral categories (October)
2017 IPrA Panel on Pragmatics and Constructions (Rita Finkbeiner, organizer), Belfast
Constructions, cues and pragmatic inferences (Keynote) (July)
2017 The Third Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Hebrew University Hevi’s path towards ‘give’: usage-based all the way (July)
(Gafter, Spicer and Ariel)
2017 Hebrew University, Inbal Arnon's lab
Children, or and experimentation, (May)
2017 Hebrew language Colloquium, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
איזו פרגמטיקה? "חבל על הזמן" Which pragmatics? 'It's a shame wasting time' (March)
2017 IGDAL
Who put these meanings in my mouth?, Tel Aviv (Keynote) (February)
2017 IGDAL
The case of literally true propositions with false implicatures, Tel Aviv (Poster, Or, Ariel and Peleg)
2017 LSA 91st Annual Meeting, Austin Texas
Bringing about a change: a change in progress in Hebrew lexical semantics (Gafter, Spicer and Ariel)
2016 AMPRA
What's a reading? (November)
2016 Syntax of the world's languages VII, Mexico
The seven grammaticization stages of Hebrew intensifying adverbials within the [not X, but Y] construction
(Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel) (August)
2016 Societas Linguistica Europaea, Naples
Evoking higher-level categories using or constructions (August)
2016 European Society for philosophy and psychology, St. Andrews
A procedural analysis for or (August)
2016 Language contact, continuity and change in the emergence of Modern hebrew, Jerusalem
The grammaticization path of Hebrew discourse markers within rectification constructions (poster)
(Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel) (July)
2016 The tenth Israeli association for literacy and language, Tel Aviv
Grammaticization paths of discourse markers in rectification constructions and the compactization of these constructions
(Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel) (July)
2016 The Second Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv
Conference organizer (with Peleg and Shen) (June)
2016 The Second Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv
What is or all about? (June)
2016 The Second Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv
The grammaticization path of Hebrew discourse markers within rectification constructions (poster)
(Ruti Bardenstein and Mira Ariel) (June)
2016 Conference in honor of Yael Ziv, Hebrew University (Invited)
Roses or flowers for Yael: Pragmaticizing Hurford Constraint (June)
2016 Disjunction Days Workshop, ZAS, Berlin (poster)
What is or all about? (June)
2016 UCSB Ling Lab Talk series (May)
Linguistic meaning and truth compatibility
2016 The Finnish Centre of Excellence in research on Intersubjectivity in interaction (Invited guest)
Objectivity, subjectivity and the analysis of or (April)
2016 עברית שפה חיה (March)
ניסע למטולה או לצפת? "או" בראי יחידות ההנגנה (Yeverechyahu, Ariel, Giora and Fein)
2016 Harvard University "Language and Cognition" group (Invited)
Intended Meaning Versus Truth Compatibility: The case of scalar quantifiers (February)
2015 Conference in honor of Esther Borochovsky Bar-Aba tel Aviv University (Invited)
מעמד שיחי: הפרגמטיקה לשירות הדוברת
2015 Societas Linguistica Europaea
Roundtable on Interaction and Linguistic Structure, Leiden University (Plenary)
Or: From a Logic-Based to a Usage-Based analysis
2015 Societas Linguistica Europaea
Workshop on Prominence in pragmatics
Revisiting the typology of conversational implicatures
2015 14th IPrA conference, University of Antwerp, Panel on:
'Adaptability, contextualism, and the composition of discourse meaning'
On the distinctness between or construction alternatives
2015 The first Israel Usage-Based Conference, Hebrew University
Logic-based or use-based?
2015 New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, Lodz (Plenary)
Reclaiming "logical" words
2015 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara
Logic-based or use-based?
2014 John Du Bois and Mira Ariel
SCUL Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara
Give is not a given: Argument structure and cognitive containment
2014 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, UCLA
Or, surprisingly
2014 Linguistics Colloquium, Lund University (Invited)
Is language logic-based or use-based?
2014 John Du Bois and Mira Ariel
Ditransitives workshop, Syntax of the world's languages VI, University of Pavia
Give is not a given
2014 Georgetown University Round Table
A use-based analysis for or
2014 Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pavia (Invited lecture)
How many pragmatic statuses do we need? Let me count the ways
2014 Workshop on "Case and agreement: between grammar and information structure", Hebrew University (keynote address)
Motivating verbal person agreement
2013 Pragmatics Society of Japan & Waseda University (Invited lecture)
Semantics versus pragmatics
2013 Pragmatics Society of Japan (Invited)
Discussant: Panel on implicature
2013 Pragmatics Society of Japan (Keynote address)
Pragmatic meanings: Beyond implicatures
2013 A doctoral school on discourse markers, Fribourg, Switzerland (Invited lecture)
Or: A new semantics, a new pragmatics
2013 A doctoral school on discourse markers, Fribourg, Switzerland (Invited Hands-on Session)
How many alternatives does or offer?
2013 UC Berkeley, Linguistics Colloquium (Invited)
Or: Myths and realities.
2013 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza (Invited)
Types of pragmatic meanings
2013 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza (Invited)
Drawing the semantics/pragmatics distinction.
2013 IPrA, New Delhi (Plenary)
Or: Myths and realities.
2013 Mira Ariel and Caterina Mauri
IPrA, New Delhi, organizers of a three-hour Panel on Natural language connectives:
Evidence from discourse, typology and grammaticization.
2013 Caterina Mauri and Mira Ariel
IPrA, New Delhi, panel on Natural language connectives:
Evidence from discourse, typology and grammaticization
Non-connecting functions of connectives: Focus on (non-) exhaustive connectives.
2013 International Congress of linguists, Geneva University, Workshop on The semantics and pragmatics of logical words:
a cross-linguistic perspective, organized by Jacques Moeschler, Caterina Mauri, Johan van der Auwera
Or: Questioning meaning and use.
2013 International Congress of linguists, Geneva University, Panel on pragmatics, discourse and cognition,
organized by Laurence Horn and Istvan Kecskes.
Interpreting or constructions.
2013 ICLC 12 University of Alberta, Panel on The verbalization of experience in honor of Wallace Chafe,
organized by John W Du Bois and Patricia Clancy
Having trouble verbalizing? Take or, or something. Or whatever.
2013 The linguistic, the cognitive, and the political: A conference in honor of Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
Or disjunctions expressing stable and ad hoc categories (in Hebrew)
2012 Princeton University, The Program in Linguistics (Invited)
Or: Myths of meaning and facts of use
2011 Conjunctions vs. contextualizers workshop, Charles University, Prague
Relational and independent and conjunctions
2011 Lattice Research Laboratory, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Pragmatics and grammar: More pragmatics or more grammar? (Invited).
2011 Specification in context project, Stuttgart University, Germany
a) Some somes are quantifiers (Invited)
b) Most somes are not quantifiers (Invited)
2011 Conference on form and meaning, Sorbonne, Paris
The semantics and pragmatics of or constructions (Invited)
2011 Hebrew Language Colloquium, Haifa University
All kinds of meanings: xaval al ha-zman (in Hebrew)
2010 LISO, UC Santa Barbara
Concession and contrast: though and but at the Intonation unit boundary (John Du Bois and Mira Ariel)
2010 Conference on competing motivations, Leipzig, Germany
Or constructions: Monosemy versus polysemy, encoding versus inferencing
2010 Linguistics Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
The semantics and pragmatics of or Constructions
2010 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
How (not) to use discourse in semantic arguments: The case of scalar quantifiers
2010 Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen University, Germany,
Poster: Testing the boundaries: Scalarity and the argument from discourse
2010 Workshop: Reference and accessibility, Stuttgart University, Germany (Invited)
Reference in three keys
2009 Hebrew Language Colloquium, TAU, Israel
Pragmatics and grammar in Pragmatics and grammar (in Hebrew)
2009 Cognitive Science UC San Diego, USA (Invited)
Or, or something: Constructing categories on the fly
2008 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
What use is or?
2008 Workshop on the annotation of animacy and information status Northwestern University, Chicago, USA (Invited)
2008 CSDL, Cleveland, USA,
The reflexive construction
2008 Linguistics Colloquium, Stanford University, USA (Invited)
Or constructions: Meaning and use
2008 New Reflections on grammaticalization, Leuven, Belgium
The intransitivization of English reflexive constructions
2008 A conference in memory of Professor Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Xaval al ha-zman (‘It’s a shame on the time’): In memory of Tanya Reinhrart
2008 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Or constructions: Meaning and use
2006 Penn Linguistics Colloquium, U.O. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA
Implicated, explicated or lexical?: The case of most
2006 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Two strategies in interpreting and conjunctions, or, the nonunitary status of inferred interpretations
2006 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Looking for asses and finding kingdom: The case of reflexive pronouns
2006 Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language, Berlin, Germany (Invited)
Reference: Maxi-grammar, mini-grammar
2006 Bar Ilan Colloquium, Ramat Gan, Israel,
Choosing the proper status for interpretations: The case of an upper bound on most
2005 Winter LSA, San Francisco USA, Organizer: A 3 hour symposium on
Scalars and the semantics-pragmatics interface: the problem of most
2005 Winter LSA, San Francisco, USA
Majority profiled: a circumbounded analysis of most
2005 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
The rise and potential fall of English reflexives
2005 Experimental Pragmatics workshop, Cambridge University, Britain
Most: What you see is what you get
2004 New Developments in linguistic pragmatics (invited plenary speaker), Lodz, Poland
Most: Redrawing the semantic/pragmatic borderline
2004 ICAME, Verona, Italy
Reflexives in Present-Day English: Coexistence of past, present and future
2003 Where Semantics meets pragmatics workshop, East Lansing, USA
Most: Reversing some of the roles of semantics and pragmatics
2003 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Most: Lexical semantic and pragmatic aspects
2003 ICLC, La Rioja, Spain
Most: Semantic and pragmatic aspects
2003 BLS, UC Berkeley, USA
Most: Frequency, semanticization and GCI
2002 לשון וחברה, אונ' ת"א (Language and Society, Tel Aviv University)
על הצורך במעמ"ד: מוסר השכל מ'או' האנגלי
(On the need for a corpus of spoken Hebrew: Drawing the moral from English or)
2002 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Most: A 'just that' lexical semantic analysis
2002 ICAME, Göteborg, Sweden
What does(n't) or mean?
2002 Hebrew University Colloquium, Jerusalem, Israel
Most: Lexical semantic and pragmatic aspects
2002 BLS, UC Berkeley, USA
Prenominal possessive NPs, Discourse functions and discourse profiles
2001 Reference and coherence workshop, Utrecht University, Holland (Invited)
Discourse functions, discourse profiles and reference
2001 LISO Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Privileged interactional interpretations
2001 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Reference and approaches to the grammar-pragmatics interface
2001 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Reference and Pragmatics
2000 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Functional levels of interpretation in interaction
2000 CSDL, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Salient, linguistic and interactional meanings: The demise of a unique literal meaning
2000 Corpus linguistics and the study of Modern Hebrew (symposium, invited speaker)
Emory University Atlanta, USA
Why would a pragmatist need a Hebrew corpus?
1999 PRAGMA, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Against a unique literal meaning
1999 PRAGMA (a 3 part panel), Tel Aviv University, Israel Organizer (with Jonathan Berg): Literal meaning
1999 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Cognitive universals and the distribution of resumptive pronouns
1999 ICLC, Stockholm, Sweden
On the similarity between linguistic and extralinguistic constraints
1999 CSDL, Emory University Atlanta, USA
Cognitive universals and the distribution of resumptive pronouns
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
2015-2018 Linguistics Chair, Tel Aviv University.
2003-2008 Linguistics Chair, Tel Aviv University.
1997-1999 Linguistics Chair, Tel Aviv University.
1997-1999 Women’s Forum Chair, Tel Aviv University.
2003-2007 School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Ph.D. Students Committee.
1993-1997 School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Budget Committee.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1977– The Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
1995– The International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)
1985– The Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL)
1978– The Israeli Association of Applied Linguistics (ILASH)
1985–1999,
2012– The International Pragmatics Association, Belgium (IPrA)
2014- Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE)
2016 ESPP
LINKS
TAU Tel Aviv University
Linguistics Department
School of Cultural Studies
CoSIH Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara
Linguistics Department
Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
ILASH Israel Association of Applied Linguistics
ICLA International Cognitive Linguistics Association
CogLing Cognitive Linguistics, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Cognitive Science
JOP Journal of Pragmatics
CUP Cambridge University Press
נגה . 1982-2004 (עורכות: רחל אוסטרוביץ, מירה אריאל, רחל גיורא, אראלה דאור ומירי קרסין)
Noga, Israel’s feminist magazine. 1982-2004 (eds: Rachel Ostrowitz, Mira Ariel, Rachel Giora, Erela Daor and Miri Krassin)