amir-zeldes
commented
2 years ago Another option is to tag אל ADV with Polarity=Neg
I would do that in any case, it's the most intuitive part for me
Morphological features of תלך are: Gender=Masc | Number=Sing | Person=2 | HebBinyan=PAAL | Voice=Act | Tense=Fut
An alternative which may be simpler is to say that in this context, תלך is not Fut; it is actually still the imperative, which has a suppletive negative form. I actually think from a morphologist's stand point, that's what it is: an allomorph of לך in the environment following אל. After all, this form is 100% automatic and there is no alternative, so we could just say Mood=Imp.
IsraelLand
@amir-zeldes
I have a question about the morphological features we should assign to negative imperative VS positive imperative. We assign the value Mood=Imp to positive imperative since this mood is expressed morphologically only in positive environments. We don’t assign the Tense feature to these forms.
For example – לֵךְ Gender=Masc | Number=Sing | Person=2 | HebBinyan=PAAL | Voice=Act | Mood=Imp (no tense)
But when the environment is negative, the morphological form is a simple future tense, and the imperative mood is expressed through אל or biblical לא: אל תלך Morphological features of תלך are: Gender=Masc | Number=Sing | Person=2 | HebBinyan=PAAL | Voice=Act | Tense=Fut
Do we want to express the imperative mood via אל? If we do, should it be tagged AUX instead of ADV? I am not sure Mood=Imp is permitted with AUX, but the UD list of auxiliaries' functions includes: Periphrastic mood: imperative. I think it's not a bad way to describe the behavior of negative imperatives in Hebrew, but I am not sure whether it complicates our previous decisions, like אל לך ללכת in issue 36 - or biblical form like לא תלך. Another option is to tag אל ADV with Polarity=Neg, and decide that negative imperative constructions do not include any morphological information about Mood=Imp. What do you think?