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. ix, 390 pp.
Moshe Taube
List of John Benjamins publications for which Moshe Taube plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
2019 Introduction Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter
2019 The limits of multiple-source contact influence: The case of ecel ‘at’ in Modern Hebrew Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 33–54 | Chapter
The paper examines the opposition of existential-possessive constructions with le- ‘to’, the inherited strategy in Hebrew for denoting possession, and similar constructions with ecel ‘at’. The latter, induced by several languages in contact with Hebrew throughout its history (Arabic, Yiddish,… read more
1994 On Factivity, Emotivity and Choice of Conjunction in Yiddish Studies in Language 18:1, pp. 113–125 | Article
Modern Yiddish has two subordinating conjunctions introducing complement clauses, az and wos, the latter being an innovation, functionally inspired by Slavic. Our study deals with the distribution of the two conjunctions and with the factors influencing that distribution. We observe that wos is… read more
1985 Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn ‘laiser’ Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 499–514 | Article