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In:Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew
Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 256] 2019
► pp. 1–32

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Introduction

Published online: 18 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.256.01dor
Article outline
  • 1.1Hebrew and the question of language continuity
  • 1.2A framework for analyzing language transmission
  • 1.3The history of Hebrew
  • 1.4Previous approaches to the emergence of Modern Hebrew
  • 1.5(Dis)continuity in Hebrew
    • 1.5.1Hebrew throughout the ages
    • 1.5.2Emergent Modern Hebrew of the first generation of speakers
    • 1.5.3Hebrew of the first generation of native Modern Hebrew speakers
  • 1.6Conclusion
  • 1.7Summary of papers in the volume
    • 1.7.1Contact, continuity and change in the emergence of Modern Hebrew
      • 1.7.1.1Syntactic evolution in the history of Hebrew
      • 1.7.1.2The foundations of Modern Hebrew on previous stages of Hebrew
    • 1.7.2General issues of contact, continuity and change
  • Notes
  • References
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