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SUMMARY:Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew - Professor Ed
 ward Cook\, Catholic University\, Washington DC
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CONTACT:Geoffrey Khan
DESCRIPTION:The origin of Mishnaic Hebrew and its differences from Biblica
 l Hebrew have been explained in different ways\, e.g.\, in terms of chrono
 logical development (MH is later)\, register (MH is colloquial)\, or geogr
 aphic (MH originated elsewhere than in Judea). None of these accounts expl
 ain\, however\, just why MH is different in the way that it is different\,
  especially in the pronounced and drastic simplification of its verbal sys
 tem vis-a-vis BH.\n\nRecent advances in contact linguistics suggest that M
 H originated out of a very specific kind of contact with Aramaic\, namely\
 , the fairly rapid adult acquisition of Hebrew as a second language by Ara
 maic speakers\, which left the language permanently changed. The most like
 ly historical framework for this contact situation is the expansion of the
  Jewish state under the Hasmoneans in the second and first centuries BCE.
LOCATION:Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site)\, Roo
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