Language Change and Variation

edited by Ruth A. Berman

Book cover: Language Change and Variation

Extent: 276 pages

Publisher: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2019)

ISBN: 9789652082343

5.87 x 9.41 inches

Price: $30.00

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The Young Scholars Forum of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities was launched in 2004 with the aim of bringing together outstanding young scholars in Israel. In addition to serving as a platform for discussion and thought, the forum is designed to promote collaborative intellectual and research activity among researchers from different institutions and from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, a group of young scholars from academic institutions in Israel is selected for the forum. A member of the Academy heads each group and guides its discussion of a broad topic chosen for the group, which includes young scholars from a range of fields related to the topic. The collection of articles presented herein is a product of the meetings of the Young Scholars Forum in Linguistics that met for three semesters, in 2015-2016, under the guidance of Professor Ruth Berman. The articles by the participants in the collection, representing a variety of fields of expertise, are arranged in three sections, according to their subjects: diachronic studies, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. The issue of change and diversity in language is central to today’s linguistic discourse. It is examined in the collection from a variety of complementary and mutually enriching perspectives.

Preface 1. Introduction Ruth A. Berman Notes on language variation and change in current Hebrew: Perspectives from general usage and child language 2. Diachronic Research Nora Boneh Qatal and Qotel between Biblical and Modern Hebrew Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal Notes concerning paths of grammaticalization of negation markers in the Semitic languages Uri Mor The predicative infinitive construct in Second Temple Hebrew 3. Sociolinguistic Research and Languages in Contact Dalit Assouline Dative marking in Israeli Haredi Yiddish: A linguistic change in progress Roey Gafter Linguistic change and resistance to change: the pronunciation of h and c among the Yemenite community in Rosh Ha'Ayin Lior Laks Verb formation in colloquial Arabic: Productivity in the binyan system of verb patterns Judy Kupersmitt Change and variation in expression of form-function relations in the narratives of Spanish-Hebrew bilinguals 4. Psycholinguistic Research Nurit Melnik Language change as a solution to the linking problem Bracha Nir Morpho-syntax in language development: Diachrony, synchrony and evolution Orna Peleg, Lee Edelist, Zohar Eviatar & Dafna Bergerbest The influence of the language we speak on the semantic distance between two concepts Concluding chapter: Typological Aspects Eitan Grossman Language change and language diversity in typological perspective List of contributors

  • Edited by Ruth A. Berman