Moshe Taube

List of John Benjamins publications for which Moshe Taube plays a role.

Title

Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew

Edited by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 256] 2019. ix, 390 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics
Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube 2019 IntroductionLanguage Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter
Taube, Moshe 2019 The limits of multiple-source contact influence: The case of ecel ‘at’ in Modern HebrewLanguage Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 33–54 | Chapter
The paper examines the opposition of existential-possessive constructions with le- ‘to’, the inherited strategy in Hebrew for denoting possession, and similar constructions with ecel ‘at’. The latter, induced by several languages in contact with Hebrew throughout its history (Arabic, Yiddish,… read more
Modern Yiddish has two subordinating conjunctions introducing complement clauses, az and wos, the latter being an innovation, functionally inspired by Slavic. Our study deals with the distribution of the two conjunctions and with the factors influencing that distribution. We observe that wos is… read more