Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Hebrew, Modern (heb) Alternative Names  Ivrit Family/Group  Afro-Asiatic, Semitic Area  Eurasia General Data  • Official language of Isreal • Also spoken in Australia, Canada, Germany, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Panama, United Kingdom, USA • Not a direct offspring from Biblical or other varieties of Ancient Hebrew, but an amalgamation of different Hebrew strata plus intrinsic evolution within the living speech. Typological Information  • SVO • gender distinction • verbal system: system of root consonants that carry a basic meaning, which are manipulated through a set of derived stems to refine the meaning Reduplication Form-Function  • full (pluralization ( intensification, distributive, totality), change of word class) • partial (nouns – diminutive, adjectives – attenuative, diminutive) • gemination • full (lexicalized without simplex) • full (lexicalized - Idiom) Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Comments  Reduplication is usually not mentioned in Hebrew grammars. Forms  Select Valueσσ reduplicant with fixed segments word   Functions  Select Valuediminution intensification lexical enrichment pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull partial Semantics  Select Valuediminuity intensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — adjective/adverb noun — noun pronoun — adjective/adverb pronoun — pronoun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References McCarthy, John Joseph 1998. "Prosodic morphology". In: Spencer, A., Zwicky, A.M., eds., The handbook of morphology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers   2 of 2       Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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