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Modern Hebrew: Features of the Spoken Language
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The discipline of Hebrew grammar that came into being in the Middle Ages analyzed and described the rules governing classical written Hebrew texts. Since then Hebrew grammar has retained its close connection to the written language; in fact, to this day the overwhelming majority of the concepts available to students of Hebrew grammar, in particular of syntax, derive from the traditional study of the grammar and syntax of written Hebrew. It is therefore hardly surprising that linguists’ mental ha…
Causative Verb: Modern Hebrew
(651 words)
Most Hebrew causative verbs mentioned in traditional grammars (e.g., GKC 144; Bergsträsser 1918:483), and later in modern treatments (e.g., Blau 1972:144; Aronson Berman 1978:86; Glinert 1989:465) are in
hifʿil (האכיל
heʾexil ‘feed’), with a minority in
piʿel (שימח
simax̱ ‘bring joy’). The causation in these
binyanim involves an event in which one object causes another to perform an act or be in a state. The acts or states in question are usually represented by verbs in
qal and a minority by verbs in
nifʿal. Such an association is made possible by a certain morpho-semantic reg…
