The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew - A slavic Language in Search of a Semitic Past

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Hebrew is a Slavic language containing a largely Germanic vocabulary imported via Yiddish. 0 INTRODUCTION 1 0.1 Transcription and transliteration 8 1 THE OLD VIEW: MODERN HEBREW IS A SEMITIC LANGUAGE 9 1.1 The "miracle" of the Modern Hebrew revival 13 1.2 The relationship of Modern Hebrew to pre-revival Hebrew 17 1.3 Non-Hebrew Semitic influences in Modern Hebrew 27 1.4 Yiddish and "Common European" influences in Modern Hebrew 30 2 THE NEW VIEW: MODERN HEBREW IS A SLAVIC LANGUAGE 36 2.1 The "miracle" of the Modern Hebrew revival: a reassessment 46 2.2 The relationship of Modern Hebrew to pre-revival Hebrew: a reassessment 46 2.3 Non-Hebrew Semitic influences in Modern Hebrew: a reassessment 46 2.4 Yiddish and "Common European" influences in Modem Hebrew: a reassessment 54 2.41 The attitudes of Modern Hebrew language planners towards the Hebrew resources of Yiddish 55 2.42 The role of Yiddish in the recovery of old colloquial Hebrew 57 2.43 The "hidden Slavic standard" in Modern Hebrew 72 3 TAKING STOCK: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEBREW AND THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS 98 3.1 Conclusions 98 3.2 Topics for future research 121 4 ABBREVIATIONS 131 5 REFERENCES 133