30.3754, Books: Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew: Doron, Hovav, Reshef, Taube (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:49:41
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew: Doron, Hovav, Reshef, Taube (eds.)

 


Title: Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern
Hebrew 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 256  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.256 


Editor: Edit Doron
Editor: Malka Rappaport Hovav
Editor: Yael Reshef
Editor: Moshe Taube

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262431 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262431 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
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Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203274 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
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Abstract:

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event
in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the
written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native
speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the
attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs
from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been
discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change.
The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied,
and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its
historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases
of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of
the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical
discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of
language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on
language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Hebrew (heb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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