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References
- ↑ G. Khan , J. B. Noah, The Early Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought (2000)
- ↑ Pinchas Wechter, Ibn Barūn's Arabic Works on Hebrew Grammar and Lexicography (1964)
- ↑ Online version of De rudimentis hebraicis
- ↑ Grammatica linguae sanctae at Google Books
- ↑ Zuckermann (2006 :74)
- ↑ Rosén (1969)
- 1 2 Glinert (2004 :52)
- ↑ Blau (1981 :153–154)
- ↑ Davis (2007 :536)
- ↑ Doron (2005 :3)
Works cited
- Blau, Joshua (1981). The renaissance of modern Hebrew and modern standard Arabic. University of California Press. ISBN 0520095480.
- Davis, Craig (2007). Dating the Old Testament. New York: RJ Communications. ISBN 978-0-9795062-0-8.
- Doron, Edit (2005), "VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew", in Kiss, Katalin É. (ed.), Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Dead Languages (PDF), Berlin: Mouton, pp. 239–264, ISBN 3110185504, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2011
- Glinert, Lewis (2004). The Grammar of Modern Hebrew. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521611881.
- Rosén, H. (1969). "Israel Language Policy and Linguistics". Ariel. 25: 48–63.
