Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube
The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the… read more
The paper examines the opposition of existential-possessive constructions with le- ‘to’, the inherited strategy in Hebrew for denoting possession, and similar constructions with ecel ‘at’. The latter, induced by several languages in contact with Hebrew throughout its history (Arabic, Yiddish,… read more
Modern Yiddish has two subordinating conjunctions introducing complement clauses, az and wos, the latter being an innovation, functionally inspired by Slavic. Our study deals with the distribution of the two conjunctions and with the factors influencing that distribution. We observe that wos is… read more
