Language contact and the development of modern Hebrew / / edited by Edit Doron ; in cooperation with Ofra Tirosh-Becker and Sarah Bunin Benor.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, volume 84
• TeilnehmendeR: Doron, Edit,; Tirosh-Becker, Ofra,; Benor, Sarah Bunin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 84.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Notes: Originally published in "The Journal of Jewish Languages" as Volume 3, Nos. 1-2 pages 5-348 by Brill.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Edit Doron -- The Usual Suspects: Slavic, Yiddish, and the Accusative Existentials and Possessives in Modern Hebrew / Moshe Taube -- Predicate Nominal Sentences with the Hebrew ze and Its Russian Counterpart eto / Olga Kagan -- Bleached Verbs as Aspectual Auxiliaries in Colloquial Modern Hebrew and Arabic Dialects / Ophira Gamliel and Abed al-Rahman Mar’i -- Verbal Predicate Fronting in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish / Isaac L. Bleaman -- Circumstantial versus Depictive Secondary Predicates in Literary Hebrew—The Influence of Yiddish and Russian / Keren Dubnov -- Modern Hebrew še- and Judeo-Spanish ke- (que-) in Independent Modal Constructions / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald and Sigal Shlomo -- Modern-Hebrew lama-še Interrogatives and Their Judeo-Spanish Origins / Itamar Francez -- Colloquial Modern Hebrew Doubly-marked Interrogatives and Contact with Arabic and Neo-Aramaic Dialects / Samir Khalaily and Edit Doron -- The Right Periphery in Colloquial Hebrew: Modality and Language Contact Driven Effects / Yael Ziv -- Patterns of Dislocation: Judeo-Arabic Syntactic Influence on Modern Hebrew / Yehudit Henshke -- Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins / Aynat Rubinstein , Ivy Sichel and Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- From Negative Polarity to Negative Concord—Slavic Footprints in the Diachronic Change of Hebrew meʔuma, klum, and šum davar / Einat-Haya Keren -- The Sudden Disappearance of Nitpael and the Rise of Hitpael in Modern Hebrew, and the Role of Yiddish in the Process / Shira Wigderson -- Substrate Sources and Internal Evolution of Prescriptively Unwarranted Comitative Complements in Modern Hebrew / Yishai Neuman -- Inheritance and Slavic Contact in the Polysemy of bixlal / Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- The Expression of Material Constitution in Revival Hebrew / Chanan Ariel -- What Is New in the np-Strategy for Expressing Reciprocity in Modern Hebrew and What Are Its Origins? / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal -- The Evolution of the Structure of Free Relative Clauses in Modern Hebrew: Internal Development and Contact Language Influence / Miri Bar-Ziv Levy and Vera Agranovsky -- The Impact of Contact Languages on the Grammaticalization of the Modern Hebrew Superlative / Yael Reshef -- The Impact of Contact Languages on the Degrammaticalization of the Hebrew Definite Article / Edit Doron and Irit Meir -- The Nature and Diachrony of Hebrew Quality Pseudo-Partitives: Are They a Calque from the Contact Languages? / Nimrod Shatil -- Reconsidering the Emergence of Non-core Dative Constructions in Modern Hebrew / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh -- A Constructional Idiom in Modern Hebrew: The Influence of English on a Native Hebrew Collocation / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- When the Construction Is Axla, Everything Is Axla: A Case of Combined Lexical and Structural Borrowing from Arabic to Hebrew / Roey J. Gafter and Uri Horesh -- Index.