none 10.1075/slcs.210.13mel John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 114290637 3504711 1421186 202507031654000047 10.1075 2025-07-03T14:58:30Z 2020-03-02T12:33:15Z 3 0165-7763 10.1075/slcs https://benjamins.com/ catalog/slcs Ruth A. Berman Tel Aviv University https://ror.org/04mhzgx49 Elitzur Dattner Tel Aviv University https://ror.org/04mhzgx49 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5296-2744 Eitan Grossman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem https://ror.org/03qxff017 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7479-7831 Bracha Nir University of Haifa https://ror.org/02f009v59 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8358-5483 Yael Reshef The Hebrew University of Jerusalem https://ror.org/03qxff017 Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise. 210 3 18 2020 3 2 2020 9789027204196 9789027262066 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/slcs.210 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027262066 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027262066.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.210/html The International Perspective on Speech Acquisition Ben-David 437 2007 Chapter 44: Hebrew 10.1075/tilar.19.01ber Middle Eastern Affairs Blanc 5 385 1964 The growth of Israeli Hebrew The Leipzig glossing rules: Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses Comrie 2008 Nurit Melnik The Open University of Israel https://ror.org/027z64205 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0610-915X Agreement is a type of relationship between two linguistic elements, often characterized as an asymmetric relationship where one element, the controller , determines the agreement features of another, the target , within a particular syntactic domain. Although according to prescriptive grammars, agreement relationships are stable and deterministic, usage-based data reveal considerable variation. Building on data retrieved from heTenTen 2014, a billion-token web-crawled Hebrew corpus, we present and discuss two types of agreement alternations: (1) agreement targets which alternate between exhibiting feminine vs. masculine gender, full vs. default agreement, and formal vs. semantic agreement, and (2) controller competition, where an agreement target is controlled by one of two possible controllers. Naturally, this perspective on agreement highlights the exceptions and overlooks the regularities, yet we argue that an examination of such alternations provides clues as to the true nature of the agreement relation. 3 18 2020 3 2 2020 421 464 10.1075/slcs.210.13mel https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.210.13mel https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/slcs.210.13mel/html Folia Linguistica Barlow 33 1–2 187 2009 Agreement as a discourse phenomenon 10.1007/s10579-009-9081-4 sfat yeladim utmurot balašon Berman 9 1992 10.2307/413487 Agreement Corbett 2006 10.1017/S0022226712000333 10.1080/01690961003658420 Verbless Predicates in Hebrew Doron 1983 The Grammar of Modern Hebrew Glinert 1989 Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics Gonen 7 1 1 2015 Gender neutralization in Hebrew: The case of the numerals in colloquial Hebrew Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress, Lorient, France, July 6–10 Kilgarriff 2004 The Sketch Engine tavnit haħagam hapšuta balašon hamyuceget kimduberet Kuzar 329 2002 10.1075/sl.24.3.06lam 10.1007/s11049-015-9319-3 Hebrew Linguistics: A Journal for Hebrew Descriptive, Computational and Applied Linguistics Meir 55 31 2005 zaxar unkeva bamispar: hamin hadiqduqi bišmot hamispar kmaʕarexet pgiʕa Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Meir 2013 Numerals: Modern Hebrew 10.1515/COG.2006.004 tmurot balašon haʕivrit hadvura: qiyum wqinyan Melnik 68 67 2014 10.1075/sl.35.1.02net Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew: A Psycholinguistic Perspective Ravid 1995 10.1017/S0954394500000909 10.1515/LING.2009.002 10.1007/BF00992737 hamišpat hašemani Rubinstein 1968 klaley hetʔem bmin wmispar wʔuniversalim lšoniyim Schwarzwald 13–14 251 1979 milim besiyomet -ayim bʕivrit: curatan, yciratan wšimušeyhen Schwarzwald 1996 Folia Linguistica Schwarzwald 25 3–4 577 1991 Grammatical vs. lexical plural formation in Hebrew Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Schwarzwald 2013 Gender Universals of Human Language, Vol. 4: Syntax Steele 585 1978 Word order variation: A typological study haʕivrit safa ħaya Toury 101 1992 ʕaliyata wnfilata šel curat hazugi bilšon hasafrut haʕivrit haħadaša The Many Faces of Agreement Wechsler 2003 Studies in Modern Hebrew Syntax and Semantics Ziv 129 1976 On the reanalysis of grammatical terms in Hebrew possessive constructions