Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew

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by  Edit Doron (ed.)

Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew
Studies in
Semitic Languages
and Linguistics
Editorial Board
A.D. Rubin and C.M.H. Versteegh
VOLUME 84
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Language Contact
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of Modern Hebrew
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Edit Doron
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xIV
Introduction 1
Edit Doron
Clausal Predicates
The Usual Suspects: Slavic, Yiddish, and the Accusative Existentials and
Possessives in Modern Hebrew 25
Moshe Taube
Predicate Nominal Sentences with the Hebrew ze and Its Russian
Counterpart eto 36
Olga Kagan
Bleached Verbs as Aspectual Auxiliaries in Colloquial Modern Hebrew and
Arabic Dialects 49
Ophira Gamliel and Abed al-Rahman Mar’i
Verbal Predicate Fronting in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish 63
Isaac L. Bleaman
Circumstantial versus Depictive Secondary Predicates in Literary
Hebrew—The Influence of Yiddish and Russian 76
Keren Dubnov
Clausal Periphery
Modern Hebrew še- and Judeo-Spanish ke- (que-) in Independent Modal
Constructions 89
Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald and Sigal Shlomo
Modern-Hebrew lama-še Interrogatives and Their Judeo-Spanish
Origins 101
Itamar Francez
vi contents
Colloquial Modern Hebrew Doubly-marked Interrogatives and Contact
with Arabic and Neo-Aramaic Dialects 112
Samir Khalaily and Edit Doron
The Right Periphery in Colloquial Hebrew: Modality and Language Contact
Driven Effects 128
Yael Ziv
Patterns of Dislocation: Judeo-Arabic Syntactic Influence on Modern
Hebrew 146
Yehudit Henshke
Negation
Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins 163
Aynat Rubinstein, Ivy Sichel, and Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan
From Negative Polarity to Negative Concord—Slavic Footprints in the
Diachronic Change of Hebrew meʔuma, klum, and šum davar 180
Einat-Haya Keren
Lexical Values
The Sudden Disappearance of Nitpael and the Rise of Hitpael in Modern
Hebrew, and the Role of Yiddish in the Process 197
Shira Wigderson
Substrate Sources and Internal Evolution of Prescriptively Unwarranted
Comitative Complements in Modern Hebrew 204
Yishai Neuman
Inheritance and Slavic Contact in the Polysemy of bixlal 215
Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan
The Expression of Material Constitution in Revival Hebrew 228
Chanan Ariel
contents vii
Noun-Phrase Structure
What Is New in the NP-Strategy for Expressing Reciprocity in Modern
Hebrew and What Are Its Origins? 245
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
The Evolution of the Structure of Free Relative Clauses in Modern Hebrew:
Internal Development and Contact Language Influence 258
Miri Bar-Ziv Levy and Vera Agranovsky
The Impact of Contact Languages on the Grammaticalization of the
Modern Hebrew Superlative 269
Yael Reshef
The Impact of Contact Languages on the Degrammaticalization of the
Hebrew Definite Article 281
Edit Doron and Irit Meir
Internal Development
The Nature and Diachrony of Hebrew Quality Pseudo-Partitives: Are They a
Calque from the Contact Languages? 301
Nimrod Shatil
Reconsidering the Emergence of Non-core Dative Constructions in Modern
Hebrew 309
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh
Borrowing
A Constructional Idiom in Modern Hebrew: The Influence of English on a
Native Hebrew Collocation 325
Malka Rappaport Hovav
When the Construction Is Axla, Everything Is Axla: A Case of Combined
Lexical and Structural Borrowing from Arabic to Hebrew 337
Roey J. Gafter and Uri Horesh
Index 349

List of Contributors
Vera Agranovsky
is an MA student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the department
of Hebrew and Jewish Languages. Vera is responsible for teaching Hebrew to
adults from the former Soviet Union at the Russian-speaking Jewry Unit of the
Jewish Agency for Israel.
Abed al-Rahman Mar’i
is a senior lecturer of Hebrew literature at Beit Berl College. He has pub-
lished several articles concerning the contact between spoken Hebrew and
Palestinian Arabic. His book Walla Bseder: A Linguistic Profile of the Israeli-
Arabs (Jerusalem: Keter, 2013) has attracted considerable media coverage
in Israel.
Chanan Ariel
is a PhD candidate in the Hebrew Language department, and a member of the
Research Group on the Emergence of Modern Hebrew at the Mandel Scholion
Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has worked at the Historical Dictionary
Project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. His dissertation focuses on
the language of Maimonides.
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
is a senior lecturer in the department of Hebrew Language and a fellow at the
Language Logic Cognition Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His
research concentrates on the Semitic languages and their history; in addition,
he is interested in topics in semantics. His recent studies are on reciprocal con-
structions, datival expressions, and negation.
Miri Bar-Ziv Levy
is a PhD student at the Hebrew University in the department of Hebrew and
Jewish Languages. She is a member of the Research Group on the Emergence
of Modern Hebrew at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center
in the Humanities and Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Isaac L. Bleaman
is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at New York University.
His current research focuses on sociolinguistic variation in contemporary spo-
ken Yiddish.