Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew

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.
The contents of this volume was also published as a special double issue of Journal of Jewish Languages, 3: 1-2 (2015).

About the author

Edit Doron, Ph.D. (1983, The University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of Linguistics and member of the Language, Logic and Cognition Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published articles on the syntax and semantics of Hebrew, Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, and French, and is currently co-editor of Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics and associate editor of Theoretical Linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Edit Doron
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2015
• EAN: 9789004302006
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30200-6
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics