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
• Leto izdaje: 2016
• Jezik: English
• Serija: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 84.
• Fizični opis: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Note: 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...