About
Dorit Abusch is a literary author with a significant body of work in Hebrew, including novels, novellas, poetry, and short stories. Her published books span from 1979 to 2007 and include titles such as Crazy Heart (Lev Meshugah), The Deserter (ha-Yored), Second Voice (Kol Sheni), Echoes and Winds (Hedim ve-ruhot), and A Long Shadow Drawn in Chalk (Tsel arokh rashum be-gir). Her literary contributions have been reviewed in prominent Israeli newspapers and literary magazines, including Haaretz and Ma'ariv, indicating recognition within the Israeli literary community. In addition to her original works, she has translated poetry and short stories from English into Hebrew and translated the novel Immortality Inc by Robert Shakely into Hebrew. Abusch has also contributed numerous book reviews and articles on literature and art, demonstrating a broad engagement with literary criticism and cultural discourse in Israel.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Linguistics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Natural Language Processing
- Social psychology
Selected publications
Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives
Journal of Semantics · 2009-08-26 · 401 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingFinal prepublication version of a paper to be published in Journal of Semantics.
Lexical Alternatives as a Source of Pragmatic Presuppositions
Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 2002-09-03 · 339 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingNo abstract.
On the Temporal Composition of Infinitives
The MIT Press eBooks · 2004-05-28 · 63 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingActa Linguistica Hungarica · 2008-10-05 · 43 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus. It is argued that these examples are open to a different analysis using givenness theory. Overall, the analysis favors a weak semantics for focus not including an existential presupposition.
Circumstantial and temporal dependence in counterfactual modals
Natural Language Semantics · 2012-08-02 · 37 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 12 shared
Mats Rooth
Cornell University
- 1 shared
David Auerbach
- 1 shared
Chris Barker
- 1 shared
Mark Baltin
New York University
- 1 shared
P. J. Andrews
- 1 shared
T. Aquinus
- 1 shared
Adrian Akmajian
- 1 shared
Dalya Bilu
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