Hebrew as a partial null-subject language

Language resources for Hebrew

We describe a suite of standards, resources and tools for computational encoding and processing of Modern Hebrew texts. These include an array of XML schemas for representing linguistic resources; a variety of text corpora, raw, automatically processed and manually annotated; lexical databases, including a broad-coverage monolingual lexicon, a bilingual dictionary and a WordNet; and morphologic...

Extending partial pro-drop in Modern Hebrew: A comprehensive analysis

The phenomenon of pro-drop whereby pronominal arguments may be omitted in particular contexts is well-known and well-studied. Moreover, the notion of the Null Subject Parameter, which presumably distinguishes between those languages which allow unexpressed pronominal subjects (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those which do not, is prevalent in the transformational syntax literature. Modern Hebrew...

Extending Partial Pro-drop in Modern Hebrew: A Comprehensive Analysis

Modern Hebrew is considered to be a ‘partial pro-drop language’. Traditionally, the distinction between cases where pro-drop is licensed and those in which it is prohibited, was based on the person and tense features of the verb: 1st and 2nd person pronominal subjects may be omitted in past and future tense. This generalization, however, was found to be false in a number of papers, each discuss...

The Language of the Septuagint as a Window on the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible

Tal Am: A Natural Approach to Hebrew Language Acquisition

In light of recent neuro-scientific research on brain-based learning and applied research on language instruction, it is imperative that we reconsider our approach to Hebrew teaching in Jewish day schools. In this paper, we will examine ways in which this research has been incorporated in our development of the Tal Am curriculum. We will discuss the significance of the age variable, instruction...