Dekel Colloquial Israeli Hebrew

A Corpus-based Survey
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-036448-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 279, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

There is no written grammar of Colloquial Israeli Hebrew whatsoever. This book is the first written grammar of the spontaneous language spoken in Israel that describes Colloquial Israeli Hebrew from a synchronic point of view, and that is not a text book based on normative Hebrew rules.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Students in Linguistics and Jewish Studies, Academic Translators, Journals all over the World

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dekel, Nurit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;13
2;1 Israeli Hebrew – an introduction;15
2.1;1.1 Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Israeli Hebrew, Israeli, and inbetween;15
2.2;1.2 Grammar books;17
2.3;1.3 The research corpus;18
3;2 Israeli Hebrew phonology;21
3.1;2.1 Phonological inventory;21
3.2;2.2 Phonological and morpho-phonological rules in Israeli Hebrew;27
3.2.1;2.2.1 Stress-dependent rules: shortening / omission;27
3.2.2;2.2.2 Prosody-dependent rules;29
3.2.3;2.2.3 Assimilation in consonants;31
3.2.3.1;2.2.3.1 Full assimilation (degemination);31
3.2.3.2;2.2.3.2 Partial assimilation;33
3.2.3.2.1;2.2.3.2.1 Partial assimilation – voicing and devoicing;33
3.2.3.2.2;2.2.3.2.2 Partial assimilation – place of articulation;35
3.2.3.2.3;2.2.3.2.3 Partial assimilation – manner of articulation;36
3.2.4;2.2.4 Dissimilation;37
3.2.5;2.2.5 Vowel lowering in the verb system;38
3.2.6;2.2.6 Morpho-phonological formation of the imperative;40
3.2.7;2.2.7 Vowel change during suffixation in the verb system;42
3.3;2.3 Clusters;44
3.3.1;2.3.1 Consonant clusters;44
3.3.2;2.3.2 Vowel clusters;46
3.4;2.4 Syllable structure;47
3.4.1;2.4.1 Syllable nucleus;48
3.4.2;2.4.2 Syllable nucleus;48
3.5;2.5 Stress and intonation;49
3.5.1;2.5.1 Stress;49
3.5.2;2.5.1 Intonation;51
4;3 Israeli Hebrew morphology;53
4.1;3.1 Roots and patterns;53
4.1.1;3.1.1 Root morphology and root types;53
4.1.1.1;3.1.1.1 The possible presence of glottal consonants in the root;54
4.1.1.2;3.1.1.2 Roots with glides;55
4.1.1.3;3.1.1.3 Roots with sonorant consonants;57
4.1.1.4;3.1.1.4 Roots with double consonants;58
4.1.1.5;3.1.1.5 The possible presence of pharyngeal fricatives in the root;59
4.1.2;3.1.2 Pattern types;61
4.1.3;3.1.3 Pattern types;62
4.1.4;3.1.4 Root extraction;63
4.1.5;3.1.5 Phonological constraints;66
4.1.6;3.1.6 Secondary root formation;67
4.2;3.2 Affixes;68
4.2.1;3.2.1 Stems and suffixes;69
4.2.2;3.2.2 The use of prefixes;70
4.3;3.3 Blends;71
4.4;3.4 Acronyms and abbreviations;72
4.5;3.5 Compounds;73
4.6;3.6 Concatenated derivation methods;74
4.6.1;3.6.1 Combinations of root + pattern and stem + affix in nouns;75
4.6.2;3.6.2 Combination of a stem and a suffix;76
4.6.3;3.6.3 Combination of an acronym and a suffix;77
4.6.4;3.6.4 Dual nouns;78
5;4 Parts of speech;81
5.1;4.1 Israeli Hebrew Nouns;81
5.1.1;4.1.1 Stem morphology;83
5.1.1.1;4.1.1.1 Basic stems;84
5.1.1.2;4.1.1.2 Foreign words;85
5.1.1.3;4.1.1.3 Stems based on roots and patterns;85
5.1.1.4;4.1.1.4 Stems based on bases and suffixes;86
5.1.1.5;4.1.1.5 Blend stems;88
5.1.1.6;4.1.1.6 Compound stems;89
5.1.1.7;4.1.1.7 Acronyms and abbreviations as stems;90
5.1.2;4.1.2 Number and gender inflections;93
5.1.2.1;4.1.2.1 Standard forms;93
5.1.2.2;4.1.2.2 Dual nouns;93
5.1.2.3;4.1.2.3 Mass nouns;94
5.1.2.4;4.1.2.4 Compound stems;94
5.1.3;4.1.3 Definiteness;96
5.1.4;4.1.4 Suffixation order;97
5.1.4.1;4.1.4.1 Chronological suffixation;97
5.1.4.2;4.1.4.2 Morphological suffixation;98
5.2;4.2 The verbal system;98
5.2.1;4.2.1 Verb morphology: the verbal patterns;99
5.2.2;4.2.2 The morpho-semantic level: the derivation of verbs;102
5.2.3;4.2.3 The semantic level: aspects and moods, tense;103
5.2.3.1;4.2.3.1 The perfective aspect;105
5.2.3.2;4.2.3.2 The imperfective aspect;111
5.2.3.3;4.2.3.3 Mood forms;113
5.2.3.3.1;4.2.3.3.1 General mood;113
5.2.3.3.2;4.2.3.3.2 Imperative mood;116
5.2.3.4;4.2.3.4 The combination of forms in a conversation;117
5.2.4;4.2.4 The inflectional morphology level: person, gender and number 14 affixation;120
5.2.4.1;4.2.4.1 Suffixes of the perfective aspect;120
5.2.4.2;4.2.4.2 Suffixes of the imperfective aspect;121
5.2.4.3;4.2.4.3 Prefixes of the mood category;122
5.2.5;4.2.5 Weak roots and their integration into verbal patterns;123
5.2.6;4.2.6 Verb phrases;124
5.2.7;4.2.7 Concatenated verbs;125
5.2.7.1;4.2.7.1 The habitual past forms;126
5.2.7.2;4.2.7.2 Other concatenated verbs;127
5.2.8;4.2.8 Transitivity and voice;130
5.3;4.3 Modifiers of nouns;132
5.3.1;4.3.1 Types of modifiers and their location relative to nouns;132
5.3.1.1;4.3.1.1 Attributive adjectives;133
5.3.1.1.1;4.3.1.1.1 Basic adjectival stems;133
5.3.1.1.2;4.3.1.1.2 Stems of roots and patterns;134
5.3.1.1.3;4.3.1.1.3 Base and suffix stems;134
5.3.1.1.4;4.3.1.1.4 Compound stems;136
5.3.1.2;4.3.1.2 Numerals;137
5.3.1.2.1;4.3.1.2.1 The numeral 'one';137
5.3.1.2.2;4.3.1.2.2 The numerals 'two' onwards;137
5.3.1.3;4.3.1.3 Quantifiers;141
5.3.1.4;4.3.1.4 Demonstrative determiners;142
5.3.1.5;4.3.1.5 Combinations of adjectives;143
5.3.1.5.1;4.3.1.5.1 A sequence of attributive adjectives;143
5.3.1.5.2;4.3.1.5.2 A sequence of preceding determiners;144
5.3.1.5.3;4.3.1.5.3 A sequence of numerals / quantities and attributive adjectives;145
5.3.1.5.4;4.3.1.5.4 A sequence of numerals / quantities and attributive adjectives;145
5.3.2;4.3.2 Number and gender inflections;146
5.3.3;4.3.3 Definiteness;147
5.3.4;4.3.4 Possessives;148
5.4;4.4 Modifiers of verbs;150
5.4.1;4.4.1 The structure of adverbs;150
5.4.2;4.4.2 The location of adverbs;151
5.4.3;4.4.3 Independent adverbs;152
5.5;4.5 Israeli Hebrew pronouns;152
5.5.1;4.5.1 Personal pronouns;153
5.5.2;4.5.2 Impersonal pronouns;155
5.5.3;4.5.3 Demonstrative pronouns;157
5.5.4;4.5.4 Interrogative pronouns;159
5.5.4.1;4.5.4.1 Independent interrogative pronouns;159
5.5.4.2;4.5.4.2 Agglutinated interrogative pronouns;163
5.5.5;4.5.5 Possessive pronouns;164
5.6;4.6 Israeli Hebrew particles;165
5.6.1;4.6.1 Direct object marker;165
5.6.1.1;4.6.1.1 The zero accusative marker;165
5.6.1.2;4.6.1.2 The stand-alone accusative marker;166
5.6.1.3;4.6.1.3 The accusative marker with agglutinated pronouns;167
5.6.2;4.6.2 Conjunctions;168
5.6.3;4.6.3 Prepositions;170
5.6.3.1;4.6.3.1 The stand-alone prepositions;170
5.6.3.2;4.6.3.2 Prepositions with personal pronouns;173
5.6.4;4.6.4 Subordinators;174
5.6.5;4.6.5 Exclamations;174
5.7;4.7 Questions;175
5.7.1;4.7.1 Interrogation words;175
5.7.1.1;4.7.1.1 Interrogative pronouns;175
5.7.1.2;4.7.1.2 Other interrogative words;176
5.7.2;4.7.2 Interrogation intonation;177
5.8;4.8 Negation;178
5.8.1;4.8.1 Negation in the verbal system;178
5.8.1.1;4.8.1.1 Negation of the imperative;178
5.8.1.2;4.8.1.2 Negation of verbal forms that are not imperatives;179
5.8.2;4.8.2 Negation of nominals;180
5.8.3;4.8.3 Stand-alone negation;182
5.8.4;4.8.4 Fossilized negation;184
5.9;4.9 Duplications and repetitions;185
5.9.1;4.9.1 Duplications;185
5.9.1.1;4.9.1.1 Phonological and morphological duplication;185
5.9.1.2;4.9.1.2 Syntactic duplication;186
5.9.1.3;4.9.1.3 Word formation duplication;188
5.9.2;4.9.2 Repetitions;188
6;5 Syntax;189
6.1;5.1 Clauses and speech units in Israeli Hebrew Speech;189
6.1.1;5.1.1 Simple speech units;190
6.1.2;5.1.2 Complex speech units;192
6.1.3;5.1.3 Subordinate speech units;193
6.1.4;5.1.4 Nominal and adverbial speech units;196
6.1.5;5.1.5 Speech units with no predicates;197
6.1.6;5.1.6 Subjectless speech units;197
6.1.7;5.1.7 Other speech units;198
6.2;5.2 Word order in Israeli Hebrew;199
6.2.1;5.2.1 Speech units containing verbs as their predicates;199
6.2.2;5.2.2 Nominal and adverbial speech units;201
6.3;5.3 Number and gender agreement in Israeli Hebrew;204
6.3.1;5.3.1 Agreement in nominals;204
6.3.1.1;5.3.1.1 Attributive adjectives;204
6.3.1.2;5.3.1.2 Numerals and demonstrative determiners;205
6.3.1.2.1;5.3.1.2.1 Numerals;205
6.3.1.2.2;5.3.1.2.2 Demonstrative determiners;207
6.3.2;5.3.2 Agreement in verbs;209
6.3.2.1;5.3.2.1 Verbs following their agents;209
6.3.2.2;5.3.2.2 Verbs preceding their agents;209
6.3.3;5.3.3 Agreement in copulas;210
6.3.3.1;5.3.3.1 Demonstrative determiner copulas;210
6.3.3.2;5.3.3.2 Pronoun and verb-like copulas;211
6.4;5.4 Noun compounds;212
6.5;5.5 Verb compounds;212
7;6 The correlation between form and meaning;213
7.1;6.1 Form-meaning correlation in the verbal system;213
7.2;6.2 Form-meaning correlation in the nominal system;216
7.2.1;6.2.1 Form-meaning correlation in nouns;216
7.2.2;6.2.2 Form-meaning correlation in adjectives;218
8;7 Discourse structure in Israeli Hebrew;221
8.1;7.1 The prosodic features of speech units;221
8.1.1;7.1.1 Stress and accent;221
8.1.2;7.1.2 Intonation;223
8.1.3;7.1.3 Final tones;223
8.2;7.2 Contours and their behavior;224
8.3;7.3 Overlaps;236
9;8 Appendices;239
9.1;8.1 Appendix 1 – Verb patterns;239
9.2;8.2 Appendix 2 – Noun inflections;240
9.3;8.3 Appendix 3 – Transcription symbols;241
9.4;8.4 Appendix 4 – Additional notations;242
10;9 Bibliography;243
11;Index;247

Über Autor(innen)

Nurit Dekel, NSC - Natural Speech Communication Ltd., Airport City, Israel.