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By G. Zuckermann

ISBN-10: 140391723X

ISBN-13: 9781403917232

Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the process the 20 th century. It has replied to the social calls for of the newly rising country, in addition to to escalating globalization, with a vigorously constructing lexicon, enriched via touch with a number of overseas languages. during this specific and rigorous learn, the writer presents a principled type of neologisms, their semantic fields and the jobs of resource languages, in addition to a sociolinguistic research of purists' and usual local audio system' attitudes in the direction of lexical enrichment. His research of the strain among linguistic creativity and the upkeep of a different langauge id takes the dialogue past the case of Israeli Hebrew, via cutting edge comparisons with different languages. first and foremost of the 3rd millennium, our international is characterised by way of all over the world communique and the giant distribution of technological and talknological units. The mobility of the be aware respects no borders and the level of that mobility will not be paralleled even in destiny (less heterogeneous) generations. The learn of the modes and dynamics of language touch may well hardly ever be extra well timed.

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Helem 'shock' E helmet (secondary influence) I pTTD pinuk 'spoiling (as in spoiling one's children), indulging' - cf. I ""plTD pinukU the name of a puppy, the protagonist of an Israeli children's book (perhaps induced by the similar Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon strip), and cf. I pawn mefundk 'spoiled'. SlangI train Mbit 'willy, dick' < 1. 2. (E>)I tram Mbit 'Bobbin*, the name of the American whose wife cut off his penis. This name has been subject to punning reanalyses such as Bob it! Note that one of the many meanings of E bob is 'cut short (the hair of a woman)' cf.

Orszagh 1982-5: 417b and Magay and Orszagh 1990: 205) derives from (i)Intl element, and (ii) Hun. ele 'before' (Orszagh 1982-5:412b), 'stand in front of somebody' (Magay and Orszagh 1990: 203) or the related Hun. eld 'what is in front/ahead' (Orszagh 1982-5: 460a, cf. Hagege 1986: 257), which is related to eleje 'fore-part,front-part,beginning' (Orszagh 1982-5:415a) + the suffix -w. The following are partial PSMs: • Est. riistvara 'hardware', lit. 'tool property/fortune', as well as Est. tarkvara 'software', lit.

The current French word for 'dormouse' is F loir. 42 This example is mentioned in McMahon (1994:184). com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-15 New Perspectives on Lexical Enrichment 36 Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew PM and PSM are the main types of FEN. As mentioned above, the difference is that in PM the TL material used in the neologization was originally not semantically related to the SL lexical item, whereas in PSM it was.

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