This paper presents a diachronic study of Modern Hebrew agreement between numerals and their quantified nouns. This research is possible thanks to the discovery of two rare collections of recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, which document four generations of speakers and have become important sources of spoken Early Modern Hebrew. On the basis of these two corpora, I compare numeral agreement in the first two generations of speakers with present-day usage and analyze trends of change and conversation in Modern Hebrew. The study shows that the first generation of speakers (“Gen1”) largely acquired the gender distinction of cardinals. However, in contrast to other agreement issues that educated Gen1 speakers realized fully, numeral use showed variation and absence of agreement in a small set of cases. Moreover, some linguistic features of Gen1 Hebrew found in this study no longer characterize Present-Day Hebrew; among these features is prosodic conditioning, which led to a Gen1 tendency to use the feminine form of the numeral ‘four’ with masculine nouns more frequently than was the case with other numerals.

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保护还是改变？根据前两代发言人的新语料库探索现代希伯来语的趋势

本文提出了数字与量化名词之间现代​​希伯来语协议的历时性研究。这项研究之所以有可能是由于发现了1950年代和1960年代的两个稀有唱片集，这些唱片集记录了四代演讲者，已成为早期希伯来语口语的重要来源。在这两个语料库的基础上，我将前两代发言人的数字协议与当前用法进行了比较，并分析了现代希伯来语中变化和对话的趋势。研究表明，第一代发言人（“ Gen1”）在很大程度上获得了红衣主教的性别差异。但是，与受过教育的Gen1演讲者完全意识到的其他协议问题相反，在少数情况下，数字使用显示出差异和协议不一致。而且，在这项研究中发现的第一代希伯来语的某些语言特征不再是当今希伯来语的特征。这些特征中有韵律条件，这导致Gen1倾向于使用带有男性名词的数字“四”的女性形式，而不是使用其他数字。