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This book is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day.
Written in language simple enough for everyone to learn, this sweeping history traces the Hebrew language's development and covers the dramatic story of the rebirth of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
Jewish Education Committee Press.
This work on the history of Hebrew is rich with fascinating information about the development of the Hebrew alphabet, the ways in which Hebrew borrowed from neighbouring languages and its remarkable period of dormancy as a spoken language and subsequent revival.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Over the last two decades, the study of languages and writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition has begun to spread beyond studies based mostly on English language learners. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, 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. In addition to reviewing psychological research on reading (the author's specialty), the reader is introduced to the Hebrew language: its structure, its history, its writing system, and the issues involved in be...
This book explores the idea that Jewish thought is distinguished by concepts and categories rooted in Hebrew.
Reconstruction based upon grammatical and lexical items in the book of Kings of the dialect of Hebrew peculiar to the northern kingdom of Israel. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University, no. 5