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- Title
PRODUCTIVITY IN THE LEXICON: NEW-WORD FORMATION IN MODERN HEBREW.
- Authors
Berman, Ruth A.
- Abstract
The article discusses new word formation and productivity in modern Hebrew language.. The question of how new words in Modern Hebrew are constructed is of interest from several perspectives. The topic bears on two interrelated issues of concern to current linguistic theory: the nature of linguistic productivity in general, on the one hand, and the distinction between syntactic and lexical productivity, or between the rules of grammar. Here, focus is on lexical productivity as manifested in current Hebrew usage, as an extension of prior, related studies. Modern Hebrew affords a particularly good case for analysis of this issue on both extraneous socio-linguistic grounds and for reasons of internal structure. Thus, the language represents a rather extreme instance of "diglossia" as between the puristic requirements of prescriptive or official norms compared with the actual colloquial usage manifested by native speakers of different levels of education. A second extraneous factor which makes Hebrew of interest in this connection derives from the peculiar socio-historical circumstances attendant on the revival of Hebrew as a spoken vernacular in the past eighty to a hundred years.
- Subjects
NEW words; WORD formation (Grammar); HEBREW language; NORTHWEST Semitic languages; LEXICAL phonology; LINGUISTICS; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 1987, Vol 21, Issue 2-4, p425
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article