Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew

Abstract

Developments in Phrasal Constructions Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal - What is new in the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity reciprocity in Modern Hebrew, and what are its origins? Miri Bar-Ziv and Vera Agranovsky -- The evolution of the structure of Free Relative Clauses in Modern Hebrew: Internal development and contact language influence Chanan Ariel -- The expression of material constitution in Revival Hebrew Keren Dubnov -- Circumstantial vs. Depictive secondary predicates in Literary Hebrew - the influence of Yiddish and Russian Malka Rappaport Hovav -- A Constructional idiom in Modern Hebrew: the influence of English on a native Hebrew collocation Nimrod Shatil -- The diachrony of Hebrew Quality Pseudo-partitives: Are they a calque of the contact languages? Developments in Word Structure and Word Distribution Yael Reshef -- On the impact of contact languages on the formation of the Hebrew superlative Edit Doron & Irit Meir -- The impact of contact languages on the degrammaticalization of the Hebrew definite article Uri Horesh and Roey Gafter - When the construction is axla, everything is axla: A case of combined lexical and structural borrowing from Arabic to Hebrew. Einat Keren - From Negative Polarity to Negative Concord - Slavic footprints in the diachronic change of Hebrew meguma, klum and sum davar Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- bixlal in Modern Hebrew: Inheritance and Slavic contact Shira Wigderson - The sudden disappearance of nitpael and the rise of hitpael in Modern Hebrew, and the role of Yiddish in the process Developments in Clause-structure and Its Constituents Aynat Rubinstein, Ivy Sichel & Avigail Tsirkin-Sadan -- Superfluous negation in Modern Hebrew and its origins Moshe Taube -- The usual suspects: Slavic, Yiddish and the accusative existentials and possessives in Modern Hebrew Ophira Gamliel & Abed al-Rahman Mar'i -- Bleached verbs as aspectual auxiliaries in Colloquial Modern Hebrew and Arabic dialects Olga Kagan - Predicate nominal sentences with the Hebrew ze and its Russian counterpart eto Nora Boneh & Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal -- Reconsidering the emergence of non-core dative constructions in Modern Hebrew Yishai Neuman -- Substrate sources and internal evolution of prescriptively unwarranted 'comitative complements in Modern Hebrew Developments in the Clausal Periphery 10 Isaac Bleaman - Verbal predicate fronting in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish 10 Yehudit Henshke - Patterns of dislocation: Judeo-Arabic syntactic influence on Modern Hebrew 13 Ora Schwarzwald & Sigal Shlomo - Modern Hebrew se- and Judeo-Spanish ke- (que-) in independent modal constructions 10 Itamar Francez - Modern Hebrew lama-se interrogatives and their Judeo-Spanish origins 13 Samir Khalaily and Edit Doron - Colloquial Modern Hebrew doubly-marked interrogatives and the contact with Arabic and Neo-Aramaic dialects 17 Yael Ziv -- The right periphery in Colloquial Hebrew: Effects of spoken modality and contact languages