Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew

The chapter considers how findings from Modern Hebrew syntax shed light on theusage-based domain of contemporary linguistic typology, defined as concerned with thesynchronic and diachronic interrelations between function and grammar. To do so, it providesillustrations from well-discussed syntactic features marking inter-clausal relations, andcompares these features with those found in Biblical Hebrew prose, with special emphasis onbi-clausal constructions. The conclusion is that Hebrew syntax to