Substrate Sources and Internal Evolution of Prescriptively Unwarranted Comitative Complements in Modern Hebrew

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ID17823958
AuthorsYishai Neuman (Achva Academic College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume3
Issue1-2
Pages207-217
Publication date2015-10-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340044
OpenAlexW2197491833
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

Modern Hebrew usage of the preposition עִם ʿim ‘with’ displays syntactic and semantic features which are either non-existent or extremely rare in Classical Hebrew, among which are the instrumental and the possessive. These new features correspond to universal tendencies in language evolution and seem to have prevailed in several substrate languages of Modern Hebrew, including Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish. Until recently, they had characterized mostly colloquial Hebrew, whereas written Hebrew had conformed to Classical Hebrew. In recent years, however, social change has brought about the integration of colloquial Hebrew and written Hebrew, which has led to a decrease in the latter’s resemblance to Classical Hebrew. Normative linguists have been speaking out against the phenomenon of “misplaced ʿim .” This article is a brief account of some Hebrew ‘with’ structures, considered typologically through diachronic analysis and synchronic description of the socially-stirred interplay between colloquial and standard written Hebrew

Art · Biblical Hebrew · Biblical studies · Epistemology · Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Linguistics · Literature · Normative · Possessive · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy

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