Itai Bassi

Linguist

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

If you want to see what I do as a linguist, my (new) website is https://t.co/SE1kdOG7Wz.

If you don't, my website is still this one.

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

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[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@idanlandau כמו כן ״תקיפת פלשתינים״ המסתמך באופן נבזי על הדו-משמעות במבנה סמיכות

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

Semanticists -
If you’re interested in binding dependencies, the de se-de re distinction, strict-sloppy ambiguities, and how these all interact in the grammar of logophoricty, come check out this paper just published in Natural Language Semantics!

https://t.co/CWgKPwEMOc

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

Hi linguists, a new and rich in content volume of snippets is online (and the first that @garysthoms and I put together!). Check it out! https://t.co/Es6TjPdP5N

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

New paper with Tue Trinh: Conditional Questions ("if you come, will Bea leave?") are derived by mvt+ syntactic reconstruction. The semantics is simple, and the theory makes correct predictions re: diagnostics for reconstructions. Comments welcome! https://t.co/5m1qd53igP

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@garysthoms thanks to Sam Alxatib and Isaac Gould for doing this before us!

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

Hi there linguists! @garysthoms and I are entering the role of Snippets editors. If you have something short you wish our community to know about, please consider submitting! (visit https://t.co/Es6TjPdP5N for content requirement.) Cheers!

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@idobenbaji דווקא שגיאה יפה

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@idanlandau ונראה לי שמה שמוסיף לבלבול - בכל אופן, לאנגלית הקלוקלת - זה פסוקית ההסגר "..and any other"' , שאם מנסים להבין את פסוקית הזיקה כמאייכת אותה, אפשר לקבל *רק* פירוש מגביל, כי ביטוי מכומת לא סובל זיקה לא מגבילה. איזה בלאגן מפואר.

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@idanlandau 1) Mary sat on *the* couch (which/that/∅) she bought in Ikea

2) Mary sat on *her* couch (which/*that/*∅) she bought in Ikea    (only non-restrictive)

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

everyone in gaza facing crisis levels of food insecurity

[Tami Yakira 🏴 @tami_yakira]

מגיעים עוד ועוד דיווחים ותמונות על ילדים, נשים וגברים שגוועים מרעב בעזה. פשוטו כמשמעו. אנשים מתים מרעב. פה לידנו ממש, 40 דקות מתל אביב.
ישראל אחראית על אסון הומניטרי בקנה מידה בלתי נתפס. איך זה יכול להיות שהארץ לא רועדת, איך זה יכול להיות שהכל ממשיך להתנהל כרגיל

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@DaniilAltshuler Not sure if this is relevant, but Zoost Zwarts has a number of papers (some with Yoad Winter, and others) on spatial (formal) semantics. For example:

https://t.co/a3q72LiqFo

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@David_Erschler yes, it's fine for me in Hebrew with "I love you" antecedent. But I know people who find it odd (also in English)

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@David_Erschler I personally find them pretty marginal (in Hebrew too), except for a number of often-used (and perhaps frozen) collocations, the most prominent of which is
-"I love you"
-"I do too".

[Itai Bassi @BassiItai]

@David_Erschler This construction has been studied by Isabelle Charnavel under the name super-sloppy readings. It's not so clear to me how productive it is in English. If I remember correctly I think she reports a great deal of speaker variation on such cases.
https://t.co/e2em7MdULH

[ZAS Semantics & Pragmatics @ZAS_SP]

New paper by @BassiItai (@ZASBerlin), Imke Driemel, Abigail Bimpeh (ZAS) & Silvia Silleresi: "Strict Logophors in #Ewe, #Yoruba, and #Igbo" in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. #linguistics #language #openaccess
https://t.co/BENGWfIXOY

[Nimrod Flaschenberg @Nimrod_Flash]

Everyone concerned with Israel/Palestine should listen to the simple truths @AyOdeh said in the Knesset this evening.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

MIT didn’t want to punish antisemitic foreign students harassing American Jews on campus because suspension would lead to deportation under the student visa rules. So MIT chose to help the antisemites instead of punishing them.

Morality run amok.

MIT is one of the most prestigious universities in the US. These days, foreigners make up about 30% of the MIT student body. Jewish students, on the other hand, make up about 6% of the MIT student body — a campus minority.