Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 210] 2020. xviii, 682 pp.
Yael Reshef
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yael Reshef plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
Articles
2020 Chapter 1. Setting Modern Hebrew in space, time, and culture Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 19–26 | Chapter
This introductory chapter presents general information about Modern Hebrew (MH), as the topic of the present volume. It delineates major features of MH in order to contextualize the language in space – in terms of its community of speakers; in time – in relation to its diachronic background and its… read more
2020 Chapter 2. Historical overview of Modern Hebrew Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 27–40 | Chapter
The chapter starts by outlining the timeline of the language known as “Hebrew” from ancient times since the 2nd millennium BCE and Biblical times via the period of exile when the language existed in a state of diglossia for nearly two millennia, serving mainly for ritual and religious purposes, and… 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
2019 From written to spoken usage: The contribution of pre-revival linguistic habits to the formation of the colloquial register of 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. 179–200 | Chapter
The formation of the colloquial register of Modern Hebrew has been customarily attributed to the effects of speech revival. Based on an extensive textual examination of pre-modern texts, this paper suggests that some of the most conspicuous features of contemporary colloquial usage in fact… read more
2018 Imperfect language learning vs. dynamic sound change: The shift [i]>[e] in the verbal template hifʕil in Modern Hebrew Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:2, pp. 169–191 | Article
Modern Hebrew provides an idiosyncratic case for historical linguistic study: due to the discontinuity of its use as a spoken language, differences between contemporary structures and classical ones do not necessarily reflect change processes, but may instead result from imperfect language… read more