Hebrew, Yiddish and other Modern Jewish Literatures

Modern Languages and Literatures

The Department provides for its major and minor students in French, German, and Spanish, and minor students in Italian, programs of study that are conducive to developing competence in the spoken and written language, with a broad and deep knowledge of the literature and culture of the target languages. The Department offers to its students of Chinese and Japanese a program of study conducive t...

Modern Hebrew Relative Clauses

Onthecategoryofauxiliary in Modern Hebrew*

THIS STUDY considers some of the categories commonly associated with the notion ''auxiliary'' from the point of view of Modern Hebrew. As background, a characterization of auxiliaries as syntactically and semantically DEPENDENT elements is suggested (Section I. I), and an attempt is made to show why many Hebrew studies to date have taken rather too unconstrained a view of the notion by extendin...

Nonverbal Predicates in Modern Hebrew

Nonverbal predicates in Modern Hebrew (MH) have been the subject of investigation in a number of studies (e.g., Doron 1983; Falk 2004). However, to our knowledge, none of the existing studies was corpus-based. We show that an empirical examination of this phenomenon reveals patterns which have not been previously considered yet which should be taken into account when proposing a comprehensive a...

Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization

This paper examines exceptionality and variation phenomena in Modern Hebrew spirantization, and discusses their theoretical implications. In Modern Hebrew, spirantization affects /b/, /p/, and /k/. These stops alternate with their fricative counterparts [v], [f], and [X], respectively, in allophonic distribution, with the fricatives occurring postvocalically and the stops occurring elsewhere (A...