[Corpora-List] New Book: Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew

[Uri Horesh]

I am sending this on behalf of Benjamin Hary <bhary at learnlink.emory.edu>.
Please address any queries to him.

Uri

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A New Book in Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew is Now Available!!!

Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilation of The Corpus
of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH)

Benjamin H. Hary, Emory University, Editor Hardback, 241+xi pp., Price:
35USD, including shipping

Abstract: This book is a collection of contributions to the study of Corpus
Linguistics and Modern Hebrew. It examines recent trends in Corpus
Linguistics , the relation of language and society in Israel, the study of
spoken Hebrew and the methodology used to compile CoSIH which is in its
preparatory stages.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface      by Benjamin Hary

Linguistics and the Corpus
*John Sinclair   CURRENT ISSUES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS
*John Sinclair   LEXICAL GRAMMAR:

Language and Society in Israel
*Eliezer Ben-Rafael  MULTICULTURALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM IN ISRAEL
*Elana Shohamy and Bernard Spolsky FROM MONOLINGUAL TO MULTILINGUAL?
      EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY ISRAEL
*Otto Jastrow   THE CORPUS OF SPOKEN PALESTINIAN ARABIC (COSPA)

The Study of Spoken Hebrew in Israel
* Shlomo Izre’el   THE EMERGENCE OF SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW
*Yaakov Bentolila   LINGUISTIC VARIATION ACROSS GENERATIONS IN ISRAEL
*Shmuel Bolozky PHONOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN SPOKEN
      HEBREW
*Geoffrey Khan   THE STUDY OF MODERN HEBREW SYNTAX

Toward the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH)
*Giora Rahav SAMPLING  OF POPULATION AND THE FORMATION OF A
      REPRESENTATIVE CORPUS
*Benjamin Hary and Shlomo Izreel THE PREPARATORY MODEL OF THE CORPUS
      OF SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW (CoSIH)
*Regina E. Werum METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS ON CREATING THE CORPUS OF
      SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW (CoSIH)

The volume in English is available for $35 (including shipping) from:

The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies
Tel-Aviv University
POB 39040
IL-61390 Tel Aviv
Israel
Fax +972-3-640 7031
email: jewishsc at post.tau.ac.il
OR sarav at tauex.tau.ac.il

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Benjamin Hary, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Hebrew, Arabic and Linguistics
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Emory University
Atlanta GA 30322 (404) 727-7942

CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew:
http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/cosih.html
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