Perspectives on Language and Language Development Essays in Honor of

Perspectives on Language and Language Development brings together new perspectives on language, discourse and language development in 31 chapters by leading scholars from several countries with diverging backgrounds and disciplines. It is a comprehensive

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PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RUTH A. BERMAN

PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RUTH A. BERMAN

Editors DORIT DISKIN RAVID AND HAVA BAT-ZEEV SHYLDKROT Tel Aviv University, Israel

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

Dorit Diskin Ravid Hava bat-Zeev Shyldkrot

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perspectives on language and language development: essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman/ Dorit Diskin Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, editors. p. cm. English with one contribution in French. Bibliography of Ruth Aronson Berman’s works: p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-4020-7903-6 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-4020-7911-7 (ebook) 1.Linguistics. 2. Language acquisition. I. Ravid, Dorit Diskin. II. Shyldkrot, Hava Bat-Zeev. III. Berman, Ruth Aronson. P26.B424P47 410—dc22 2004050704

2004

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CONTENTS

List of contributors ix The life and work of Ruth A. Berman xv Ruth A. Berman’s list of publications xix Acknowledgements xxix Introduction

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I. LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE 7

1. Cat´egorisation, grammaticalisation et lexicalisation Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot

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THE HEBREW LANGUAGE IN ISRAEL 23

2. Parsing forms with identical consonants: Hebrew reduplication Outi Bat-El

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3. Linear first-time derivation of verbs and consonant cluster preservation in Israeli Hebrew 35 Shmuel Bolozky 4. Modern Hebrew Consonant Clusters Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald

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5. Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary notes Shlomo Izre’el

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6. From Vanity to Grace: A case study of metaphorical frame contacts Tamar Sovran 7. Language rights in the multilingual society of Israel Elena Shohamy

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THE INTERRELATIONS OF LANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE 103

8. Grammatical gender and personification Bernard Comrie 9. Relating narrative events in translation Dan I. Slobin

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10. Why do we need evaluation devices anyway? Yeshayahu Shen 11. On interpreting: A tutorial Rachel Giora

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II. A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE 157

12. Teaching and artificial life 159 Tzur Sayag and Sidney Strauss EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION