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Usage-based studies in modern Hebrew background, morpho-lexicon, and syntax edited by Ruth A. Berman, Tel Aviv University ; With the assistance of Elitzur Dattner, Tel Aviv University, Cooperating Editors: Eitan Grossman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bracha Nir, University of Haifa, Yael Reshef, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Contributor(s): Berman, Ruth Aronson | Dattner, Elitzur | Grossman, Eitan | Nir, Bracha | Reshef, YaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language companion series ; volume 210Publisher: Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 9027262063; 9789027262066Subject(s): Hebrew language -- Usage | Hebrew language -- Errors of usage | Hebrew language -- Errors of usage | Hebrew language -- UsageGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 492.4/5 LOC classification: PJ4740Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Introduction / Ruth A. Berman and Elitzur Dattner -- Part I. General background: 1. Setting Modern Hebrew in space, time, and culture / Eitan Grossman and Yael Reshef -- 2. Historical overview of Modern Hebrew / Yael Reshef -- 3. Genetic affiliation / Aaron Rubin -- 4. Sociolinguistics of Modern Hebrew / Roni Henkin -- 5. Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew / Uri Mor -- 6. Notes on Modern Hebrew phonology and orthography / Stav Klein -- Part II. Morpho-lexicon: 7. Inflection / Ora R. Schwarzwald -- 8. Derivation / Dorit Ravid -- 9. Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew / Shmuel Bolotzky and Ruth A. Berman -- 10. Voice distinctions / Dana Taube -- 11. Nominalizations / Ruth A. Berman -- Part III. Syntax: 12. Agreement alternations in Modern Hebrew / Nurit Melnik -- 13. Transitivity and valence / Rivka Halevy -- 14. Genitive (smixut) constructions in Modern Hebrew / Ruth A. Berman -- 15. Impersonal and pseudo-impersonal constructions / Rivka Halevy -- 16. Negation in Modern Hebrew / Leon Shor -- 17. List constructions / Anna Inbar -- 18 A usage-based typology of Modern Hebrew syntax: How Semitic? / Bracha Nir -- Appendix: Transcription, transliteration, Hebrew-specific coding -- Index.
Summary: "The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ruth A. Berman and Elitzur Dattner -- Part I. General background: 1. Setting Modern Hebrew in space, time, and culture / Eitan Grossman and Yael Reshef -- 2. Historical overview of Modern Hebrew / Yael Reshef -- 3. Genetic affiliation / Aaron Rubin -- 4. Sociolinguistics of Modern Hebrew / Roni Henkin -- 5. Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew / Uri Mor -- 6. Notes on Modern Hebrew phonology and orthography / Stav Klein -- Part II. Morpho-lexicon: 7. Inflection / Ora R. Schwarzwald -- 8. Derivation / Dorit Ravid -- 9. Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew / Shmuel Bolotzky and Ruth A. Berman -- 10. Voice distinctions / Dana Taube -- 11. Nominalizations / Ruth A. Berman -- Part III. Syntax: 12. Agreement alternations in Modern Hebrew / Nurit Melnik -- 13. Transitivity and valence / Rivka Halevy -- 14. Genitive (smixut) constructions in Modern Hebrew / Ruth A. Berman -- 15. Impersonal and pseudo-impersonal constructions / Rivka Halevy -- 16. Negation in Modern Hebrew / Leon Shor -- 17. List constructions / Anna Inbar -- 18 A usage-based typology of Modern Hebrew syntax: How Semitic? / Bracha Nir -- Appendix: Transcription, transliteration, Hebrew-specific coding -- Index.

"The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise"-- Provided by publisher.

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