RT Article
T1 Some Uses of Deixis in Rabbinic Hebrew
JF Journal of Semitic studies
VO 60
IS 2
SP 331
OP 340
A1 Yadin-Israel, Azzan
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1563192608
AB I put forth two main arguments in the present study. First, that an adequate understanding of a number of Rabbinic Hebrew passages originating in Roman Palestine depends on a fuller appreciation of their employment of proximate and distant deixis. Interestingly, already the rabbinic scholars of Babylonia fail to recognize the distinction between proximate and distant deixis. Thus, the second argument, that though this distinction is known in Biblical Hebrew, its preservation among Palestinian rabbis is due to its vitality in Greek and so counts as contact-induced maintenance.
DO 10.1093/jss/fgv003