Contributed by Hebrew and linguistics scholars from Israel and the US, the 24 essays in this volume analyze the syntax of Modern Hebrewand the origins of new innovations in syntactic structures, exploring parallel structures in the contact languages and possible internal precursors to those structures. They support the hypothesis that Modern Hebrew was based on transmission from previous stages of Hebrew, detailing changes that are similar to what is known about deficient transmission through second-language speakers in other cases of language contact. They show that new Modern Hebrew constructions follow the two modification types of value transfer from the contact language and value reset. Sections focus on clausal predicates, clausal periphery, negation, lexical values, noun-phrase structure, internal development, and borrowing from other languages. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew, edited by Edit Doron, presents twenty four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew, attributing them to syntactic change due to the impact of contact languages on previous stages of Hebrew.
