The present study examines gender differences in Hebrew language performance, and attitudes towards learning Hebrew in different groups within the North American Jewish community. The chosen groups differ in their religious affiliation (non-Orthodox vs. Orthodox) and gender class composition (co-ed vs....
References in periodicals archive ? Gender, Grammatical. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Competing suffixes: feminine formation of Hebrew loanwords More results ► Dictionary browser ? ▲ gemütlich gemütlichkeit gen -gen gen up gen X gen. gena genal genappe Genck gendarme gendarmerie genda...
“Now know ye that we, in consideration of circumstances humbly represented unto Us, are Graciously pleased to grant Our Grace and Mercy unto the said Alan Mathison Turing and to grant him Our Free Pardon posthumously in respect of the said convictions; And to pardon and remit unto him the ...
Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study Emphasis, or pharyngealization, is a distinctive phonetic phenomenon and a phonemic feature of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of gender on...
fourth letter of the Roman alphabet, from Greekdelta, from Phoenician and Hebrewdaleth, pausal form ofdeleth"door," so called from its shape. The form of the modern letter is the Greek delta (Δ) with one angle rounded. As the sign for "500" in Roman numerals, it is said to be hal...
In Hebrew, for example, there are four ways to say "I love you": one each for a woman speaking to a woman, a woman speaking to a man, a man speaking to a man, and a man speaking to a woman. Some languages classify nouns into categories that don't resemble "gender," along the...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook gender-neutral (redirected fromGender neutrality) Medical Wikipedia gen·der-neu·tral (jĕn′dər-no͞o′trəl, -nyo͞o′-) adj. Free of explicit or implicit reference to gender or sex, as is ...
Gender Issues in Ancient and Reformation Translations of Genesis 1-4 This book deals with Bible translation and its development from Antiquity to the Reformation. Taking the Hebrew Masoretic Text of Genesis as Old Testament Vorlage , it examines corresponding verses from five translations: Septuagint,...
This was true even though all testing was done in English, a language without grammatical gender. Tongues twisted left: manipulating minds by managing words The loss of grammatical gender and Case is then tantamount to shifting the [+ref] feature on [thorn]e from the formal to the semantic ...
aThis course will focus on a number of classical texts ranging from the biblical period to the present. With the exception of a few selections, all have had their impact on Jewish culture in the Hebrew language. The chief aim of the course is to immerse students in the questions the texts...