Language contact, continuity and change in the genesis of modern Hebrew / edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef, Moshe Taube.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Doron, Edit, editor.
• Rappaport Hovav, Malka, editor.
• Reshef, Yael, editor.
• Taube, Moshe, editor.

Series:

• Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 256.
• Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 256

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hebrew language--Israel--Spoken Hebrew.
• Hebrew language--Syntax.
• Languages in contact--Israel.
• Hebrew language--20th century.
• Hebrew language--Foreign elements.
• Sociolinguistics--Israel.
• Hebrew language--Revival.
• Hebrew language.
• Hebrew language--Spoken Hebrew.
• Languages in contact.
• Sociolinguistics.
• Israel.

Physical Description:

viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called "revival", acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language- shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction / Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
• The limits of multiple-source contact influence: The case of ecel 'at' in Modern Hebrew / Moshe Taube
• Existential possessive modality in the emergence of Modern Hebrew / Aynat Rubinstein
• The derivation of a concessive from an aspectual adverb by reanalysis in Modern Hebrew / Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan
• Why did the future form of the verb displace the imperative form in the informal register of Modern Hebrew? / Chanan Ariel
• The change in Hebrew from a V-framed to an S-framed language / Malka Rappaport Hovav
• From written to spoken usage: The contribution of pre-revival linguistic habits to the formation of the colloquial register of Modern Hebrew / Yael Reshef
• Language change, prescriptive language, and spontaneous speech in Modern Hebrew: A corpus-based study of early recordings / Einat Gonen
• The Biblical sources of Modern Hebrew syntax/ Edit Doron
• Can there be language continuity in language contact? / Brian D. Joseph
• Our creolized tongues / Enoch O. Aboh
• Why do children lead contact-induced language change in some contexts but not others? / Carmel O'Shannessy
• Variation and conventionalization in language emergence: The case of two young sign language of Israel / Irit Meir and Wendy Sandler
• 'Mame loshen': The role of gender-biased language contact in the syntactic development of Yiddish / Asya Pereltsvaig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Language contact, continuity and change in the genesis of modern Hebrew

ISBN:

• 9789027203274
• 902720327X

OCLC:

1089234014