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Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew is a scholarly book written in the English language by linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, published in 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan. The book proposes a socio-philological framework for the analysis of "camouflaged borrowing" such as phono-semantic matching. It introduces for the first time a classification for "multisourced neologisms", new words that are based on two or more sources at the same time.
The book was the first monograph published within the series Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change.[1]
It provides new perspectives on etymology, word formation, language change, loanwords and contact linguistics. It establishes a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields, the roles of source languages, and the attitudes of purists and ordinary native speakers towards multi-factorial coinage. It analyses the tension between linguistic creativity and cultural flirting on the one hand, and the preservation of a distinct language identity on the other hand.[2]
The analysis presented in this book challenges Einar Haugen's classic typology of lexical borrowing. Whereas Haugen categorizes borrowing into either substitution or importation, this book explores cases of "simultaneous substitution and importation" in the form of camouflaged borrowing. Examples of such mechanisms are phonetic matching, semanticized phonetic matching, phono-semantic matching and calquing.
The book examines words and phrases in Israeli (Modern Hebrew),[3]Revolutionized Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Yiddish, Estonian, Swahili, pidgins and creoles.
The book has two ISBNs: ISBN 978-1-4039-3869-5 and ISBN 1-4039-1723-X. It consists of 304 pages, including an index. The cover of the book features three Israeli Hebrew words:
この本は、ジェフリー・ルイス（オックスフォード大学）、ジェームズ・A・マティソフ（カリフォルニア大学バークレー校）、ジェフリー・ヒース（ミシガン大学）、シュムエル・ボロツキー（マサチューセッツ大学）によって高く評価された。[ 4 ]
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本書は、疑いなく語彙学の分野における画期的な業績となる、傑出した学術書である。ザッカーマンの細部へのこだわりは、ユダヤ学の伝統に倣い、本書をミニ百科事典たらしめている。概して、彼の語源論はよく考え抜かれており、現在および将来の研究の基準となるものである。[...] 辞書編纂者、語彙学者、語源学者、言語計画者、形態論者にとって、本書を手元に置いておかないのは愚かなことだろう。本書は一般読者にも理解しやすい内容となっている。ザッカーマンは野心的な課題を自らに課し、驚くべき才能でそれを成し遂げた。[ 5 ]