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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Comparative constructions in 'Israeli Hebrew' |
Author: | Zuckermann, G. |
Citation: | Melilah : Journal of Jewish Studies, 2007; 2:1-16 |
Publisher: | Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
ISSN: | 1759-1953 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ghil'ad Zuckermann |
Abstract: | ‘Hebrew’ is one of the official languages – with Arabic and English – of the State of Israel, established in 1948 on 20,770 km2 in the ‘Middle’ East. Israeli emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Its symbolic first native speaker, Itamar Ben-ehuda, began speaking in 1886. Israeli is a fusional synthetic language, with non-concatenative discontinuous morphemes realised by vowel infixation. This typological paper demonstrates that the typical Israeli comparative construction involves a copula or verbless clause construction, with the ‘Parameter’ as copula complement (CC) or as a verbless clause complement (VCC). However, there is another mono-clausal comparative construction, in which the ‘Index’ of comparison is the main verb in an extended intransitive clause. Future research would demonstrate that Israeli comparatives correspond with Yiddish and ‘Standard Average European’, although the forms used are Hebrew. |
Keywords: | Hebrew Israel Basic Linguistic Theory linguistics Jewish language and culture typology superlative comparative extended intransitive grammar forms versus patterns Israeli Yiddish Standard Average European fusional synthetic discontinuous morphemes infixation complementation clauses analyticization allative case construct-state ambiguity |
Rights: | Copyright status unknown |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Linguistics publications |
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