summary expletive negation modern hebrew february 27 posted querry expletive negation modern hebrew want thank ariel cohen ariel _ cohen riga mt cs cmu edu michael ephratt rhlh702 uvm haifa ac il bob fradkin raf100f oduvm cc odu edu laurence horn lhorn yalevm cis yale edu paul rowlett p rowlett mod lang salford ac uk lucia tovena tovena latl unige ch comments querry originated michael moore comment effect modern hebrew sentence negation subordinate clauses dominated afraid interpreted referentially expletively according ariel cohen contexts allow expletive negation bob fradkin mentionned expletive negation mh seemed less frequent french seems expletive negation mh narrower domain use french might also question style involved expletive negation aknowledged grammatical feature formal style french might nonstandard feature mh suggested fact neither glinert 1989 suggested michael ephratt rosen 1977 even mention expletive negation mh lucia tovena pointed 1994 paper geneva generative papers italian hungarian hindi expletive negation contexts typological overview expletive negation one consult horn 1978 shows typological extension phenomenon still left unanswered questions surprised apparently nt exist study topic mh wonder whether looking direction ancient hebrew question general interest deal divergent distributions phenomenon across languages words fact expletive negation exists comparative fearing contexts large number languages mh could matters style suggested explain thanks responded glinert l 1989 grammar modern hebrew cambridge horn l 1978 aspects negation j greenberg universals human language vol 4 standford 127210 moore 1992 double negation et cetera 304309 rosen 1977 contemporary hebrew pierre larrivee departement de langues et linguistique universite laval quebec canada g1k 7p4 3914larp vm1 ulaval ca