The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew: A Slavic Language in Search of a Semitic PastHebrew is regarded as a former living language which ceased to be a native language 1800 years ago, only to be given a spoken function anew in the late 19th century. Since the re-acquisition of a lost colloquial function has never been documented, Modern Hebrew has become an object of fascination among linguists and laymen alike.In this book the author claims- Modern Hebrew is not a direct continuation of monolingual Semitic Hebrew- Modern Hebrew was created when Yiddish speaker re-lexified their language to Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew- Yiddish is a Slavic language, derived from Sorbian and thus, Modern Hebrew is a Slavic LanguageThese claims raise a number of interesting questions: why do most speakers believe that Modern Hebrew is a Semitic language, what are the contributions of Modern Hebrew to the typology of diglossia, historical and genetic linguistics, universal grammar, 2nd language acquisition and political science? |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MODERN HEBREW IS A SEMITIC LANGUAGE | 9 |
MODERN HEBREW IS A SLAVIC LANGUAGE | 36 |
IMPLICATIONS FOR HEBREW AND | 98 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 131 |
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Alkalaj Arabic Aramaic Ashkenazic attested Belorussian Biblical and Mishnaic Biblical Hebrew Biblical/Mishnaic Hebrew Blanc calque Church Slavic cited component in Yiddish consonant coterritorial cryptolects derived diglossia diglossic discussion e.g. ModHe East Slavic languages Eastern Yiddish enrichment Esperanto European languages example Garbell genetic German lands grammar Hebrew component Hebrew language Hebrew lexicon Hebrew norms Hebrew pronunciation impact Jewish languages Jews Judeo Judeo-Aramaic Judeo-Sorbian Judeo-Spanish Klozner Kutscher lajin language planners language revival Latin lexical linguistic loans Medieval Mishnaic Hebrew Modem Modern Hebrew language ModHe native speakers old colloquial Hebrew Old Hebrew origin partial language shift pattern phonological phonotactics plural pre-revival Hebrew prefixes pronunciation norms re-lexification re-phonologization recensions roots Rosen Russian sect Semitic Hebrew Semitic language Slavic languages Sorbian speech communities spirantization suffix superstratal syntax typological Ukrainian Ullendorff ungeminated verbs vowel Wexler written Yemenite Yiddish dialects Yiddish hebraisms Yiddish merged Hebrew Yiddish speakers Yiddish whole Hebrew
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| Title | The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew: A Slavic Language in Search of a Semitic Past Volume 4 of Mediterranean language and culture monograph series, ISSN 0179-1621 |
| Author | Paul Wexler |
| Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1990 |
| ISBN | 3447030631, 9783447030632 |
| Length | 146 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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