Comparative constructions in 'Israeli Hebrew'

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dc.contributor.authorZuckermann, G.
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityGhil'ad Zuckermann
dc.identifier.citationMelilah : Journal of Jewish Studies, 2007; 2:1-16
dc.identifier.issn1759-1953
dc.identifier.orcidZuckermann, G. [0000-0002-7986-9774]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/68270
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCentre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester
dc.rightsCopyright status unknown
dc.subjectHebrew
dc.subjectIsrael
dc.subjectBasic Linguistic Theory
dc.subjectlinguistics
dc.subjectJewish language and culture
dc.subjecttypology
dc.subjectsuperlative
dc.subjectcomparative
dc.subjectextended intransitive
dc.subjectgrammar
dc.subjectforms versus patterns
dc.subjectIsraeli
dc.subjectYiddish
dc.subjectStandard Average European
dc.subjectfusional
dc.subjectsynthetic
dc.subjectdiscontinuous morphemes
dc.subjectinfixation
dc.subjectcomplementation
dc.subjectclauses
dc.subjectanalyticization
dc.subjectallative case
dc.subjectconstruct-state
dc.subjectambiguity
dc.titleComparative constructions in 'Israeli Hebrew'
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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