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 pr...

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.