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Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 256] 2019
► pp. 95–116

The derivation of a concessive from an aspectual adverb by reanalysis in Modern Hebrew

This paper traces the way ʕadayin ‘still’ in Modern Hebrew (MH) emerged as a new concessive, developing out of an earlier aspectual adverb which originated in Rabbinic Hebrew, after being borrowed from Aramaic. The account adopted here provides us with the means to describe and analyze the process of ʕadayin’s reanalysis in MH, which is claimed to have been triggered by the use of ʕadayin in adversative sentences opening with ʔaval ‘but’ at the time Hebrew began to be influenced by English. The input of the presupposition of ʔaval ‘but’ is taken into account as the major contribution to the process of reanalysis, along with the original focus-sensitivity and anaphoricity of ʕadayin.

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Inherited aspectual ʕadayin
  • 2.The semantics of aspectual still
  • 3.The development of concessive ʕadayin
  • 4.The semantics of concessive ʕadayin
  • 5.The development: Grammaticalization
  • 6.Grammaticalization by reanalysis
    • 6.1Pre-stage
    • 6.2The turning point
    • 6.3The post stage
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 18 September 2019
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