List of Publications

The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 (390 pp.) [in Hebrew].

"Traces of Linguistic Traditions in the Spoken Language of Baghdadi Jews", in M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday , Jerusalem 1996, pp. 503-521 [in Hebrew]

“La rinascita della lingua ebraica", Clio 34,4 (1998), pp. 573-597 [in Italian]

"History, the Structure of Modern Hebrew, and Speakers' Perceptions of the Language", Approaching a New Millennium: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen 2000 (on CD-ROM)

"The Use of Biblical Verbal Forms in the Hebrew Folksong", Leshonenu 63 (2001), pp. 107-129 [in Hebrew]

"Between Hebrew and Italian: Morphological Processes in the Hebrew Component in the Judeo-Italian Dialect of Rome", Massorot 12 (2002), pp. 161-186 [in Hebrew]

"The Sociolinguistic Phenomenon of V-Form in Early Modern Hebrew", Te'uda 18 (2002), pp. 299-327 [in Hebrew]

"'Only Hebrew': The Language of Kadish Yehudah Silman, One of the First Hebrew Folksong Writers", Studies in Hebrew Language and Literature, Milan Congress, Jerusalem 2002, pp. 54-60 [in Hebrew]

"The Historical Composition of the Lexicon as a Stylistic Factor in a Text-Oriented Culture: A Case Study from Modern Hebrew", Language and Literature 12,1 (2003), pp. 57-70

"Patterns of Lexical Choice in the Hebrew Folksong as an Evidence for Stratification Processes", Hebrew – A Living Language 3 (2003), pp. 287-310 [in Hebrew]

"Creating a Popular Culture: The Linguistic Model in the Hebrew Folksong", Revue des Études Juives 163, 1-2 (2004), pp. 49-69

"Sources for Data on Spoken Hebrew during the First Half of the 20th Century: The Contribution of Prescriptive Literature", Haivrit Weahyoteha: Studies in Hebrew Language and its Contact with Semitic Languages and Jewish Languages 4-5 (2004-2005), pp. 209-227 [in Hebrew]

"Conversion through Composition: The Transformation of Bialik's Prosody from Ashkenazi to the Sephardi Stress Patterns in Nursery Rhymes Set to Music", Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online 2006 [24 pp., in Hebrew] (with N. Wagner)

"Modern Hebrew at Its Inception: A Study of Construct Structures in Administrative Correspondence", Mexkarim Belashon 10 (2006), pp. 171-200 [in Hebrew]

"'The Subject We Will Discuss': On the Origins of the Asyndetic Relative Clause in Contemporary Hebrew", Hebrew – A Living Language 4 (2006), pp. 411-430 [in Hebrew]

"On One Syntactic Phenomenon in the Language of Hebrew Writers in Europe and Palestine", in A. Maman, S. Fassberg and Y. Breuer (eds.), Sha'arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, vol. III: Modern Hebrew and Jewish Languages, Jerusalem 2007, pp. 187-203 [in Hebrew]

"Naomi Shemer: A Linguistic Shaper of Hebrew Folksong", Leshonenu La'am LVI,3 (2007), pp. 149-163 [in Hebrew]

"The Construction יש לו את in Early Modern Spoken Hebrew", Leshonenu La'am LVI, 4 (2008), pp. 226-233 [in Hebrew]

"English in Israel: Sociolinguistic and Linguistic Aspects", in Franco Aspesi, Vermondo Brugnatelli, Annalinda Callow and Claudia Rosenzweig (eds.), Il mio cuore è a oriente. Studi di linguistica storica,filologia e cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Mayer Modena[=Quaderni di ACME 101], Milano 2008, pp.733-751

"Semantic Shifts of Textual Origin in Jewish Languages", in David M. Bunis (ed.), Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews, Jerusalem 2009, pp. 21-41 [in Hebrew]

"The Active Participle and Temporal Expression in Hebrew", Leshonenu LXXI (2009), pp. 315-344 [in Hebrew] (with T. Zewi)

"On the Nature of Spoken Hebrew in its Formative Years ", Hed Ha-ulpan He-xadash 95 (2009), pp. 79-88 [in Hebrew]

"Instructing or Recruiting? Language and Style in 1920s and 1930s Tel Aviv Municipal Posters", Jewish Studies Quarterly 16 (2009), pp. 306-332 (with A. Helman)

"La poesia e la canzone nella cultura ebraica contemporanea", A Oriente: Rivista italiana di lingue e culture oriental 14 (2010), pp. 52-61 [in Italian]

"The Ashkenazi Meter in Bialik's Nursery Rhymes and its Musical Fate", Panim 52-53 (2010), pp. 165-173 [in Hebrew] (with N. Wagner)

"From Hebrew Folksong to Israeli Song: Language and Style in Naomi Shemer's Lyrics", Israel Studies 17.1 (2012), pp. 157-179

"Conservatism or Innovation? A Reassessment of Naomi Shemer's Early Work", Criticism and Interpretation (forthcoming) [in Hebrew]

"'The Language That Follows Speech Would Not Be the Same as the One That Preceded It': Spoken Hebrew in the Pre-State", Journal of Jewish Studies (forthcoming)

"Linguistic Processes in the Field of Action Nouns and the Formation of Modern Hebrew", Leshonenu (forthcoming) [in Hebrew]

"The emergence of the Hebrew folksong: Linguistic and Stylistic Aspects", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Thematic Collection: Music in Israel) (forthcoming) [in Hebrew]

"The Re-emergence of Hebrew as a National Language", Stefan Weninger and Michael P. Streck (eds.), Semitic Languages: An International Handbook [=Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science Series], Berlin 2012, pp. 546-554

"Hebrew Speech Taking Root during the British Mandate Period", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 143-162 [in Hebrew]

"Spoken Hebrew at its Inception: Sources of Information", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 163-187 [in Hebrew]

"The Linguistic Character of Early Spoken Hebrew", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 188-211 [in Hebrew]

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Geoffrey Khan (ed.), Brill: Leiden/Boston (forthcoming): "Revival of Hebrew – Grammatical Structure and Lexicon"; "Revival of Hebrew – Sociolinguistic Dimension"; "History of Scholarship on Modern Hebrew Grammar"; "Epistolary Fornulae"; "Hebrew of Popular Music"; "Asyndesis"; "Honorific Terms of Address"; "Pluralis Majestatis"




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List of Publications LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOK The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 (390 pp.) [in Hebrew]. ARTICLES "Traces of Linguistic Traditions in the Spoken Language of Baghdadi Jews", in M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday , Jerusalem 1996, pp. 503-521 [in Hebrew] “La rinascita della lingua ebraica", Clio 34,4 (1998), pp. 573-597 [in Italian] "History, the Structure of Modern Hebrew, and Speakers' Perceptions of the Language", Approaching a New Millennium: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen 2000 (on CD-ROM) "The Use of Biblical Verbal Forms in the Hebrew Folksong", Leshonenu 63 (2001), pp. 107-129 [in Hebrew] "Between Hebrew and Italian: Morphological Processes in the Hebrew Component in the Judeo-Italian Dialect of Rome", Massorot 12 (2002), pp. 161-186 [in Hebrew] "The Sociolinguistic Phenomenon of V-Form in Early Modern Hebrew", Te'uda 18 (2002), pp. 299-327 [in Hebrew] "'Only Hebrew': The Language of Kadish Yehudah Silman, One of the First Hebrew Folksong Writers", Studies in Hebrew Language and Literature, Milan Congress, Jerusalem 2002, pp. 54-60 [in Hebrew] "The Historical Composition of the Lexicon as a Stylistic Factor in a Text-Oriented Culture: A Case Study from Modern Hebrew", Language and Literature 12,1 (2003), pp. 57-70 "Patterns of Lexical Choice in the Hebrew Folksong as an Evidence for Stratification Processes", Hebrew – A Living Language 3 (2003), pp. 287-310 [in Hebrew] "Creating a Popular Culture: The Linguistic Model in the Hebrew Folksong", Revue des Études Juives 163, 1-2 (2004), pp. 49-69 "The Modern Hebrew Asyndetic Relative Clause: The Rise of a New Syntactic Mechanism", Folia Linguistica Historica 25,1-2 (2004), pp. 115-134 "Sources for Data on Spoken Hebrew during the First Half of the 20th Century: The Contribution of Prescriptive Literature", Haivrit Weahyoteha: Studies in Hebrew Language and its Contact with Semitic Languages and Jewish Languages 4-5 (2004-2005), pp. 209-227 [in Hebrew] "Direct Speech in Non-Literary Texts: A Possible Source of Information on the Character of Early Spoken Modern Hebrew?", Hebrew Studies XLVI (2005), pp. 169-196 "Conversion through Composition: The Transformation of Bialik's Prosody from Ashkenazi to the Sephardi Stress Patterns in Nursery Rhymes Set to Music", Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online 2006 [24 pp., in Hebrew] (with N. Wagner) "Modern Hebrew at Its Inception: A Study of Construct Structures in Administrative Correspondence", Mexkarim Belashon 10 (2006), pp. 171-200 [in Hebrew] "'The Subject We Will Discuss': On the Origins of the Asyndetic Relative Clause in Contemporary Hebrew", Hebrew – A Living Language 4 (2006), pp. 411-430 [in Hebrew] "On One Syntactic Phenomenon in the Language of Hebrew Writers in Europe and Palestine", in A. Maman, S. Fassberg and Y. Breuer (eds.), Sha'arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, vol. III: Modern Hebrew and Jewish Languages, Jerusalem 2007, pp. 187-203 [in Hebrew] "'The Voice of the First Hebrew City to its Residents’: Municipal Posters in Mandate Era Tel Aviv”, Israel 11 (2007), pp. 61-89 [in Hebrew] (with A. Helman) "Naomi Shemer: A Linguistic Shaper of Hebrew Folksong", Leshonenu La'am LVI,3 (2007), pp. 149-163 [in Hebrew] "'Putting the Metre Strait': From Ashkenazi to Grammatical Stress in Bialik's Children's Lyrics Set to Music", Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature XXII (2008), pp. 371-406 [in Hebrew] (with N. Wagner) "Folksongs, Popular Songs and Spoken Hebrew: The Integration of Colloquial Language into Popular Music during the Yishuv and Early Statehood Periods", Leshonenu 70 (2008), pp. 513-532 [in Hebrew] "The Construction יש לו את in Early Modern Spoken Hebrew", Leshonenu La'am LVI, 4 (2008), pp. 226-233 [in Hebrew] "English in Israel: Sociolinguistic and Linguistic Aspects", in Franco Aspesi, Vermondo Brugnatelli, Annalinda Callow and Claudia Rosenzweig (eds.), Il mio cuore è a oriente. Studi di linguistica storica,filologia e cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Mayer Modena[=Quaderni di ACME 101], Milano 2008, pp.733-751 "Continuity vs. Change in the Emergence of Standard Modern Hebrew: The Verbal System in the Early Mandate Period", Modern Hebrew: Two Hundred and Fifty Years, Haim Cohen (ed.), Jerusalem 2009, pp. 143-176 "Semantic Shifts of Textual Origin in Jewish Languages", in David M. Bunis (ed.), Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews, Jerusalem 2009, pp. 21-41 [in Hebrew] "The Active Participle and Temporal Expression in Hebrew", Leshonenu LXXI (2009), pp. 315-344 [in Hebrew] (with T. Zewi) "On the Nature of Spoken Hebrew in its Formative Years ", Hed Ha-ulpan He-xadash 95 (2009), pp. 79-88 [in Hebrew] "Instructing or Recruiting? Language and Style in 1920s and 1930s Tel Aviv Municipal Posters", Jewish Studies Quarterly 16 (2009), pp. 306-332 (with A. Helman) "La poesia e la canzone nella cultura ebraica contemporanea", A Oriente: Rivista italiana di lingue e culture oriental 14 (2010), pp. 52-61 [in Italian] "The Ashkenazi Meter in Bialik's Nursery Rhymes and its Musical Fate", Panim 52-53 (2010), pp. 165-173 [in Hebrew] (with N. Wagner) "From Hebrew Folksong to Israeli Song: Language and Style in Naomi Shemer's Lyrics", Israel Studies 17.1 (2012), pp. 157-179 "Conservatism or Innovation? A Reassessment of Naomi Shemer's Early Work", Criticism and Interpretation (forthcoming) [in Hebrew] "'The Language That Follows Speech Would Not Be the Same as the One That Preceded It': Spoken Hebrew in the Pre-State", Journal of Jewish Studies (forthcoming) "Linguistic Processes in the Field of Action Nouns and the Formation of Modern Hebrew", Leshonenu (forthcoming) [in Hebrew] "The emergence of the Hebrew folksong: Linguistic and Stylistic Aspects", Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Thematic Collection: Music in Israel) (forthcoming) [in Hebrew] "The Re-emergence of Hebrew as a National Language", Stefan Weninger and Michael P. Streck (eds.), Semitic Languages: An International Handbook [=Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science Series], Berlin 2012, pp. 546-554 "Hebrew Speech Taking Root during the British Mandate Period", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 143-162 [in Hebrew] "Spoken Hebrew at its Inception: Sources of Information", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 163-187 [in Hebrew] "The Linguistic Character of Early Spoken Hebrew", in Shlomo Izreel (ed.), The Speech Machine as a language Teacher: Hebrew Spoken Here - Hebrew voices from Nazi Germany: A testimony on spoken Hebrew and Jewish life in Palestine during the British Mandate, Tel Aviv 2012, pp. 188-211 [in Hebrew] ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Geoffrey Khan (ed.), Brill: Leiden/Boston (forthcoming): "Revival of Hebrew – Grammatical Structure and Lexicon"; "Revival of Hebrew – Sociolinguistic Dimension"; "History of Scholarship on Modern Hebrew Grammar"; "Epistolary Fornulae"; "Hebrew of Popular Music"; "Asyndesis"; "Honorific Terms of Address"; "Pluralis Majestatis"