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Modern Hebrewby Lewis Glinert
Routledge 2004; US$ 41.95This new edition of Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers of the language. more...
Colloquial Hebrewby Zippi Lyttleton; Tamar Wang
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 28.95Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study and class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hebrew. No prior knowledge of the language is required. more...
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntaxby Bill T. Arnold; John H. Choi
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 19.00This textbook defines the fundamental syntactical features of the Hebrew Bible, illustrates these features with examples from the Bible, and provides English translations. more...
Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabicby Ur Shlonsky
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach. more...
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrewby Dorit Diskin Ravid
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 55.00Tracing the language development in Hebrew-speakers from childhood to adulthood, this study focuses on inflectional morphology (the grammatical form of words). It explores strategies of language acquisition in speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. more...
Reading Hebrewby Joseph Shimron
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 110.00As the worldwide demand for literacy continues, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their language and writing system and literacy acquisition. This volume is part of this new, emerging field of research. more...
Late Samaritan Hebrewby Moshe Florentin
BRILL 2004; US$ 197.00This book provides a comprehensive grammatical and lexicographical review of all types of late Samaritan Hebrew in all their literary manifestations from the twelfth century to the present. Much of it is devoted to description of Hybrid Samaritan Hebrew (HSH), which since the 13th is used as the main written language of the Samaritan community more...
Learning to Read Biblical Hebrewby Robert Ray Ellis
Baylor University Press 2006; US$ 34.95This volume can guide anyone to read the Old Testament in its original language by teaching the basics of Hebrew grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. The step-by-step approach offers thorough illustrations by means of biblical examples, and all the basic elements of the Hebrew grammar are logically presented. This study communicates in a clear language and moves at a reasonable pace for students to learn through a deductive approach. more...
Roots and Patternsby Maya Arad
Springer 2005; US$ 159.00This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering,... more...
Resurrecting Hebrewby Ilan Stavans
Knopf Publishing Group 2008; US$ 12.99Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own forgotten Hebrew as well as the man who helped revive the language at the end of the nineteenth century, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. The search for Ben-Yehuda, who raised his eldest son in linguistic isolation–not even allowing him to hear the songs of birds–so that he would be “the first Hebrew-speaking child,” becomes a journey full of paradox. It was... more...









