TY  - BOOK
ED  - Doron, ʿEdit
ED  - Tirosh-Beḳer, ʿOfrah
ED  - Bunin Benor, Sarah
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Language contact and the development of Modern Hebrew
T3  - Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics volume 84
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Etymology
AB  - This is is a first rigorous attempt by scholars of Hebrew to evaluate the syntactic impact of the various languages with which Modern Hebrew was in contact during its formative years. Twenty-four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew are analysed, and shown to originate in previous stages of Hebrew, which, since the third century CE, solely functioned as a scholarly and liturgical language. The syntactic changes in the constructions are traced to the native languages of the first Modern Hebrew learners, and later to further reanalysis by the first generation of native speakers
SN  - 900430200X
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Edit Doron ; in cooperation with Ofra Tirosh-Becker and Sarah Bunin Benor
ID  - 833226797
ER  -