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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809774103321

Autore

Kahn Lily

Titolo

The verbal system in late enlightenment Hebrew [[electronic resource] /] / by Lily Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60321-3

9786612603211

90-04-18225-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; ; v. 55

Disciplina

492.4/56

Soggetti

Hebrew language - Verb

Hebrew language - Morphology

Hebrew language - Syntax

Hebrew fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Haskalah

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / L.O. Kahn -- Introduction / L.O. Kahn -- I. Morphology / L.O. Kahn -- II. Function / L.O. Kahn -- III. Syntax / L.O. Kahn -- Conclusion / L.O. Kahn -- References / L.O. Kahn -- Index Of Authors / L.O. Kahn -- Index Of Grammatical Topics / L.O. Kahn.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the first detailed corpus-based analysis of the verbal morphology and syntax employed in the Eastern European Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew prose fiction written between 1857 and 1881. This verbal system exhibits biblical, rabbinic and medieval elements as well as unprecedented features and similarities to Israeli Hebrew and Yiddish. The first section of the work offers a selective examination of maskilic verbal morphology, while the second section constitutes a thorough examination of the functions of the verbal conjugations and the third section surveys selected features of verbal syntax. The work fills a serious gap in the Hebrew philological literature and will therefore be of great relevance to students and scholars of diachronic Hebrew language and linguistics.