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.
Edit Doron
List of John Benjamins publications for which Edit Doron plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
Articles
2019 The biblical sources of Modern Hebrew syntax Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 221–256 | Chapter
The paper assesses the influence on Modern Hebrew of the two previous spoken stages of Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew in its early, Mishnaic, phase. Contra the received view in the current literature, I argue that Modern Hebrew has in many respects readopted the syntax of Biblical… read more
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
2014 The interpretation of Construct-State morphology The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 361–374 | Article
The paper argues that both nouns and adjectives are interpreted as relational in the construct state. Accordingly, relational nouns can all be inflected in the construct state, and so can some sortal nouns which can be coerced to a relational interpretation. Similarly, relational adjectives can all… read more
2011 On the syntax and semantics of resumptive pronouns Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.), pp. 287–318 | Article
The paper presents an analysis of the contribution of resumptive pronouns to the structure and interpretation of relative clauses in Hebrew. Traditionally, resumptive pronouns have been treated as overt phonological realizations of gaps, since it was believed that the interpretation of relative… read more
2011 An ergative analysis of French valency alternations Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010, Herschensohn, Julia (ed.), pp. 137–154 | Article
The French anticausative is attested in two separate constructions: one focuses on the result (Res-AC), e.g. Le rameau s’est flétri; the second focuses on the process (Proc-AC) – Le rameau a flétri, both translated to English as ‘The branch withered’. The paper proposes to explain the differences… read more
2008 10. Habituality and the habitual aspect Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.), pp. 321–347 | Article
2003 Transitivity alternations in the Semitic template system Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 127–149 | Article
2000 Word Order in Hebrew Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996, Lecarme, Jacqueline, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article
1992 Appositive Predicates Predication, De Caluwé, Johan, André Hantson and Willy Vandeweghe (eds.), pp. 23–33 | Article