Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew, PDF eBook

Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew PDF

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change series

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Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century.

It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact.

In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.

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