Abstract
Existential and possessive constructions with a definite NP marked as object appear in both spoken and written Modern Hebrew. This paper ascribes their appearance to negative existential and possessive constructions with genitive accusative in Slavic languages (Polish, Russian, Ukrainian). These were reinterpreted in Yiddish as accusative and subsequently calqued by bilingual speakers of Modern Hebrew in the first generations of its emergence as a spoken language.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 27-37 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Jewish Languages |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2015
Keywords
- Calques
- Existential constructions
- Possessive constructions
- Structural borrowing
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