Research Fields

• Modern Hebrew
• Historical linguistics
• Language variation and change
• Language and culture

About

Yael Reshef is an expert on Modern Hebrew, and in particular, on its emergence processes during the late 19th and early 20th century.

 

Selected Publications

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020

Linguistic Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019 (ed., with E. Doron, M. Rapaport Hovav, M. Taube)

Hebrew in the Mandate Period. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2015 [in Hebrew]

The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 [in Hebrew]

 

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim Prize for Excellence in the Study of Hebrew Language and Literature, awarded by The Academy of the Hebrew Language

 

Teaching

History of the Hebrew Language: From Early Medieval Period until the Revival of Hebrew Speech

Modern Hebrew

Sociolinguistics

Speech and Speech Representation

Selected Topics in Pragmatics

Topics in the History of Modern Hebrew

Structural Features of contemporary Hebrew

Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Gramma

Language and Interaction

Modern Hebrew as a Language of Culture

Modern Hebrew: The First Decades