31.1499, Books: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Berman (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:16:45
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Berman (ed.)

 


Title: Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew 
Subtitle: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 210  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.210 


Editor: Ruth A. Berman

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262066 Pages: 682 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262066 Pages: 682 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262066 Pages: 682 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204196 Pages: 682 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204196 Pages: 682 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204196 Pages: 682 Price: Europe EURO 116.60


Abstract:

The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from
perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general
linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that
provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of
the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the
morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original
analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect
varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in
approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic
approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or
formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective
is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated
processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the
Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but
non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Subject Language(s): Hebrew (heb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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