The Origin of the Hebrew nithpaal: A Sociolinguistic Proposal: SBL Annual Meeting 2020 Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar: Linguistic Variation in Biblical Hebrew
This paper offers a socio-historical linguistic account of the origin of the Rabbinic Hebrew (RH) nithpaal, positing a contact-induced morphological compromise between the Hebrew niphal and the hithpael in which the usage of latter stem has been influenced by the Aramaic -t stem (hithpaal). To prove...
| Autres titres: | SBL Annual Meeting 2020 Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar: Linguistic Variation in Biblical Hebrew |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Unisa Press
2022
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| Dans: |
Journal for semitics
Année: 2022, Volume: 31, Numéro: 1, Pages: 1-18 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Voyelle
/ Hébraïstique
/ Hébreu
/ Araméen
/ Moyen Âge
/ Bilingue
/ Sociolinguistique
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| Classifications IxTheo: | BH Judaïsme HB Ancien Testament |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Hebrew morphology
B Late Biblical Hebrew B Hebrew syntax B diachronic linguistics B contact linguistics B Rabbinic Hebrew |
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| Résumé: | This paper offers a socio-historical linguistic account of the origin of the Rabbinic Hebrew (RH) nithpaal, positing a contact-induced morphological compromise between the Hebrew niphal and the hithpael in which the usage of latter stem has been influenced by the Aramaic -t stem (hithpaal). To prove this, I outline the history of the relationship between the niphal and hithpael, focusing on a few post-exilic examples that display an equivalence of the meaning and use of the two stems, especially the growth of the passive hithpael. As such, the traditional account of the derivation of the nithpaal in RH as a blend of hithpael and niphal is argued to be a morphological compromise as the result of Hebrew-Aramaic bilingual language processing. This conclusion allows a presentation of RH nithpaal in its social and historical context, suggesting that, as a morphological compromise, it perhaps also indicates a linguistic reflex of a language community under threat of language extinction. |
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| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9323 |