Handout 2: September 3. Slides in ppt or pdf formats.
A note on Reconstructing a family tree.
Handout 4: September 12. Slides in ppt or pdf formats.
Handout 6: September 24. Slides in ppt or pdf formats.
Home work assigned on October 3rd.
Hebrew verbal paradigms (October 15).
Handout 8: October 22. with a table of the realizations of Hebrew graphemes in traditional pronunciations.
Midterm take-home exam (due on October 31).
(Most of them are password protected.)
Patrick R. Bennett: Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. Eisenbrauns, 1998.
Pages 1 – 18: Cover pages, intro and Part 1.
Pages 19 – 33: Parts 2 and 3.
Pages 34 – 55: Parts 4 and 5.
Pages 56 – 67, 119 – 126: Parts 6, 7, Conclusion and Biblography.
Pages 68 – 93: Paradigms A and B.
Pages 94 – 126: Paradigms C and Bibliography.
Pages 127 – 129: Wordlist A.
Pages 130 – 142: Wordlist B.
Pages 232 – 249: Wordlist G/H/I. Also in original A3 format.
Robert Hetzron: Two principles of genetic reconstruction. Lingua 38.2 (1976): 89-108.
Link to publisher
(freely available from Yale domain) or local copy.
Sabatino Moscati (ed.). An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages: Phonology and Morphology.
Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1964 (and later printings).
A useful (even if not up-to-date!) summary of the Semitic languages on pp. 1-21
(password protected download).
The whole book is an important reference work for anyone interested in Semitic linguistics.
John Huehnergard: 'Introduction'. In: John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie (eds.):
Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. SBL 2002. Pp. 1-18.
The whole book is highly recommended to those specializing on Biblical studies or antiquities.
Download
(passwd protected; page numbers missing – sorry for it).
Chaim Rabin: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. Orot publication, 1973.
Internet edition, 2005.
Local copy (passwd protected).
Robert Hetzron, Alan S. Kaye, Paul Newman (and others) on Afroasiatic languages,
in: Bernard Comrie (ed.). The Major Languages of South Asia, The Middle East and Africa. Routledge: London, 1987.
Local copy (passwd protected).
Thomas O. Lambdin: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1971. Introduction (pp. xiii-xiv).
Steiner, Richard C: On the Dating of Hebrew Sound Changes (Ḫ> Ḥ and Ġ>˓) and Greek Translations (2 Esdras and Judith). Journal of Biblical Literature (2005): 229-267. Download.
Articles from the Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd Edition): Alphabet, Hebrew, Hebrew Language, Jewish Languages, Pronunciations of Hebrew.
Asher, Moshe Bar: Mishnaic Hebrew: An Introductory Survey. Hebrew Studies (1999): 115-151. Download.
Benor, Sarah Bunin: Towards a New Understanding of Jewish Language in the Twenty-First Century. Religion Compass 2.6 (2008): 1062-1080. Download.
Joseph Shimron (ed.): Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-based, Morphology. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 2002.
Front matters:
Download.
Joseph Shimron: Semitic languages: Are they really root-based? (Chapter 1).
Download.
Shmuel Bolozky: The ‘roots’ of denominative Hebrew verbs (Chapter 7).
Download.
Benjamin Harshav: Essay on Multilingualism. In: Marvin Herzog et al. (eds.), Eydes. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008. Download.
Safran, William: Language and nation-building in Israel: Hebrew and its rivals. Nations and Nationalism 11.1 (2005): 43-63. Download.
Henshke, Yehudit: The Contribution of the Hebrew Component in Judeo-Languages to the Revival of Spoken Hebrew. Revue des Études Juives 172.1-2 (2013): 169-187. Download.
Zuckermann, Ghilad: “Abba, why was Professor Higgins trying to teach Eliza to speak like our cleaning lady?”:
Mizrahim, Ashkenazim, Prescriptivism and the Real Sounds of the Israeli Language. Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 19 (2005): 210-31.
Download.
Zuckermann, Ghilad:
A New Vision for “Israeli Hebrew”:
Theoretical and Practical Implications of Analysing Israel’s Main
Language as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Hybrid Language. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 5.1: 57-71.
More to come gradually...
On the RAM Tanakh (Modern Hebrew translation of the Hebrew Bible):
local copies of the JPost article of
Ghilad Zuckermann and
Shira Leibowitz Schmid.
TDS IPA console (for typing phonetic characters).
Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies: classic dictionaries online.
Jewish Languages Research Website.