Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of authors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Transcription and Coding. Transcription, transliteration, Hebrew-specific coding xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. General background
8. Chapter 1. Setting Modern Hebrew in space, time, and culture 19
9. Chapter 2. Historical overview of Modern Hebrew 27
10. Chapter 3. Genetic affiliation 41
11. Chapter 4. Sociolinguistics of Modern Hebrew 51
12. Chapter 5. Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew 97
13. Chapter 6. Notes on Modern Hebrew phonology and orthography 131
14. Part II. Morpho-lexicon
15. Chapter 7. Inflection 147
16. Chapter 8. Derivation 203
17. Chapter 9. Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew 265
18. Chapter 10. Voice distinctions 331
19. Chapter 11. Nominalizations 375
20. Part III. Syntax
21. Chapter 12. Agreement alternations in Modern Hebrew 421
22. Chapter 13. Transitivity and valence 465
23. Chapter 14. Genitive ( smixut ) constructions in Modern Hebrew 507
24. Chapter 15. Impersonal and pseudo-impersonal constructions 539
25. Chapter 16. Negation in Modern Hebrew 583
26. Chapter 17. List constructions 623
27. Chapter 18. A usage-based typology of Modern Hebrew syntax 659
28. Index 677