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Zuckermann by no means denies the productive powers and expressive capacity of the language of the State of Israel commonly called Hebrew.
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Fascinating and multifaceted, Israeli Zuckermann 1999 possesses distinctive socio-historical characteristics such as the lack of a continuous chain of native speakers from spoken Hebrew to Israeli, the non-Semitic mother tongues spoken by the revivalists, and the European impact on literary Hebrew.
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Zuckermann states squarely: "Israeli is a hybrid language based on both Hebrew and Yiddish" as well as on many other languages.
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For example, "Zuckermann by no means denies the productive powers and expressive capacity of the language of the State of Israel commonly called Hebrew."
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The distinction between forms and patterns Zuckermann 2005, 2007 is crucial too.
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Zuckermann commands a position midway between the traditionalists -- semiticists largely who cling to the view of continuous development of a Hebrew language from biblical times to today -- and the "revisionists" for whom Hebrew is relexified Indo-European.
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Zuckermann says several times that the lack of a continuous chain of native speakers is a basic difference of Hebrew.
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It would be nice if Zuckermann could list features specific to Yiddish that appear in today's Hebrew, but he lists only generically European ones.
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A pair of interviews (1, 2, both RealAudio) with Israeli linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann on Jill Kitson's weekly Radio National show about language, Lingua Franca (previously mentioned here), discuss Zuckermann's controversial thesis that Israeli is a hybrid language, both Semitic and Indo-European...
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This adds to the importance of the Congruence Principle, according to which if a linguistic feature exists in more than one contributor, it is more likely to persist in the Target Language Zuckermann 2003.
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