Tif’alna Forms in Modern Hebrew

• 作者: Bat-Zion Yemini
• 来源期刊: 社会学研究:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: LANGUAGE GENDER tif’alna FEMININE masculine
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 15-31
• 页数: 17页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

The article shows that speakers of Modern Hebrew continue to adhere to the tif’alna form that is characteristic of Biblical Hebrew,and not only when speaking or writing in a high register.Our counting of the occurrences of 19 tif’alna forms using Google’s search engine found thousands of quotations which,while mostly in a high register,also included examples of spoken language(which approximates to ladies and gentlemen),as well as language disruptions and the simpler yif’alu form.It appears that the unceasing use of tif’alna forms today has links to the feminist revolution that showed its first signs in Israel in the 1970s.Women’s organizations in Israel have come out against classical Hebrew’s generic form,which is masculine.The use of the tif’alna form sits well with the modern trend of addressing a mixed audience twice over,as in ma’azinot u-ma’azinim.