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Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and SyntaxEdited by Ruth A. Berman
[Studies in Language Companion Series 210] 2020
► pp. 19–26
Chapter 1Setting Modern Hebrew in space, time, and culture
Eitan Grossman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yael Reshef | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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 status as a Semitic language; and in culture –
as reflected in various strands of research and the different labels assigned to the language at issue here. To this
end, the chapter starts with a short survey of the evolution and current use of MH as reviewed in the other chapters
of this introductory part of the book, followed by a brief survey of prescriptive and descriptive research on Modern Hebrew.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1The speech community
- 2.Genetic affiliation and nomenclature
- 3.Linguistic research: From prescriptivism to descriptivism
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Published online: 18 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.210.02gro
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.210.02gro
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