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- Title: Towards a Description of Spoken Hebrew (Essay)
- Author : Hebrew Studies Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
Description
The study of spoken Hebrew has been picking up over the past decades. In this paper, I try to present some methodological difficulties arising when trying to present a comprehensive description of spoken language in general and spoken Hebrew in particular: difficulties in terminology, in the subjects under discussion, in the registers of spoken language, and in the construction of the corpus. Finally, I suggest a framework for a comprehensive description of linguistic phenomena in spoken language. In particular, I indicate the need to distinguish among phenomena of production, phenomena of grammar, and those in between the two, while demonstrating this sort of scale with three linguistic phenomena: the definiteness of the construct phrases, subject-verb agreement, and abbreviated utterances. It is important to recognize this scale since many phenomena have undergone the transition from production phenomena to grammatical phenomena, and therefore identifying the production phenomena might show us the way in which some linguistic rules are formed.