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הרצאתו של פרופ' ליאור קס מאוניברסיטת בר-אילן, שכותרתה:

 When morphology fails, syntax prevails: 
Competition between morphological and periphrastic structures in Hebrew

תקציר:

The study examines the competition between morphological and periphrastic structures in the Hebrew word formation, with focus on loanwords. This is based on two case studies: agent noun and verb formation, as demonstrated below.

(1)    a. šay xofi hu trombon-ist
          ‘Shay Hofi is a trombone player’

         b. oded meir hu nagan trombon
          ‘Oded Meir is a trombone player’

(2)    a. atem yexolim lebanjej ve-lo lexakot la-perek ha-ba
          ‘you can binge-watch and not wait for the next episode’

         b. atem yexolim laasot binj matay še-ba laxem
          ‘you can binge-watch whenever you feel like it’

The agent noun ‘trombone player’ is formed in (1a) by suffixation of -ist to the loanword trombon ‘trombone’, while in (1b) it is formed periphrastically by adding the word nagan ‘player’ to ‘trombone’. Similarly, the verbal construction ‘binge-watch’ in (2a) is based on the formation of the CiCeC verb binjej in its infinitive form, derived from binj, while in (2b) it is manifested in the periphrastic construction laasot binj (lit. do binge). I will show that the selection of either construction, as well as cases of variation, can be partially predicted based on the interaction between morpho-phonological and semantic-syntactic criteria. Specifically, I will argue that both morph-phonological and syntactic complexity tends to block word formation, and as a result,
periphrastic constructions are preferred.
 

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