Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.

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GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN is Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He teaches and supervises at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics. He has published in English, Israeli, Italian, Yiddish, Spanish and Russian, has taught in Singapore, the USA and Israel and conducted research in Japan and Australia.

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction New Perspectives on Lexical Enrichment The Case of Israeli: Multisourced Neologization (MSN) as an Ideal Technique for Lexical Enrichment Addition of Sememe Versus Introduction of Lexeme MSN in Various Terminological Areas Sociolinguistic Analysis: Attitudes Towards MSN in 'Reinvented Languages' The Source Languages Statistical Analysis Conclusions and Theoretical Implications Appendix: Transcription, Transliteration and Translation References Index