DIRECT SPEECH IN NON-LITERARY TEXTS: A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE EARLY CHARACTER OF SPOKEN HEBREW?

The nature of early Hebrew speech is unknown due to the scarcity of documentation prior to the 1950s. This article presents a new source of information, namely quotations of the spoken language embedded in archival documents from the 1920s-1940s, and discusses its value for the study of the evolutio...

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Publicado en:Hebrew Studies Vol. 46; pp. 169 - 197
Autor principal: Reshef, Yael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2005
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