Full Description
Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew, edited by Edit Doron, presents twenty four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew, attributing them to syntactic change due to the impact of contact languages on previous stages of Hebrew.
The contents of this volume was also published as a special double issue of Journal of Jewish Languages, 3: 1-2 (2015).
Contents
Developments in Phrasal Constructions Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal - What is new in the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity reciprocity in Modern Hebrew, and what are its origins? Miri Bar-Ziv and Vera Agranovsky -- The evolution of the structure of Free Relative Clauses in Modern Hebrew: Internal development and contact language influence Chanan Ariel -- The expression of material constitution in Revival Hebrew Keren Dubnov -- Circumstantial vs. Depictive secondary predicates in Literary Hebrew - the influence of Yiddish and Russian Malka Rappaport Hovav -- A Constructional idiom in Modern Hebrew: the influence of English on a native Hebrew collocation Nimrod Shatil -- The diachrony of Hebrew Quality Pseudo-partitives: Are they a calque of the contact languages? Developments in Word Structure and Word Distribution Yael Reshef -- On the impact of contact languages on the formation of the Hebrew superlative Edit Doron & Irit Meir -- The impact of contact languages on the degrammaticalization of the Hebrew definite article Uri Horesh and Roey Gafter - When the construction is axla, everything is axla: A case of combined lexical and structural borrowing from Arabic to Hebrew. Einat Keren - From Negative Polarity to Negative Concord - Slavic footprints in the diachronic change of Hebrew meguma, klum and sum davar Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- bixlal in Modern Hebrew: Inheritance and Slavic contact Shira Wigderson - The sudden disappearance of nitpael and the rise of hitpael in Modern Hebrew, and the role of Yiddish in the process Developments in Clause-structure and Its Constituents Aynat Rubinstein, Ivy Sichel & Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- Superfluous negation in Modern Hebrew and its origins Moshe Taube -- The usual suspects: Slavic, Yiddish and the accusative existentials and possessives in Modern Hebrew Ophira Gamliel & Abed al-Rahman Mar'i -- Bleached verbs as aspectual auxiliaries in Colloquial Modern Hebrew and Arabic dialects Olga Kagan - Predicate nominal sentences with the Hebrew ze and its Russian counterpart eto Nora Boneh & Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal -- Reconsidering the emergence of non-core dative constructions in Modern Hebrew Yishai Neuman -- Substrate sources and internal evolution of prescriptively unwarranted 'comitative complements in Modern Hebrew Developments in the Clausal Periphery 10 Isaac Bleaman - Verbal predicate fronting in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish 10 Yehudit Henshke - Patterns of dislocation: Judeo-Arabic syntactic influence on Modern Hebrew 13 Ora Schwarzwald & Sigal Shlomo - Modern Hebrew se- and Judeo-Spanish ke- (que-) in independent modal constructions 10 Itamar Francez - Modern Hebrew lama-se interrogatives and their Judeo-Spanish origins 13 Samir Khalaily and Edit Doron - Colloquial Modern Hebrew doubly-marked interrogatives and the contact with Arabic and Neo-Aramaic dialects 17 Yael Ziv -- The right periphery in Colloquial Hebrew: Effects of spoken modality and contact languages
