This book is a collection of contributions to the study of Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew. It examines recent trends in Corpus Linguistics , the relation of language and society in Israel, the study of spoken Hebrew and the methodology used to compile CoSIH which is in its preparatory stages.TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface by Benjamin HaryLinguistics and the Corpus*John Sinclair CURRENT ISSUES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS*John Sinclair LEXICAL GRAMMAR:Language and Society in Israel*Eliezer Ben-Rafael MULTICULTURALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM IN ISRAEL*Elana Shohamy and Bernard Spolsky FROM MONOLINGUAL TO MULTILINGUAL? EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY ISRAEL*Otto Jastrow THE CORPUS OF SPOKEN PALESTINIAN ARABIC (COSPA)The Study of Spoken Hebrew in Israel* Shlomo Izreel THE EMERGENCE OF SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW*Yaakov Bentolila LINGUISTIC VARIATION ACROSS GENERATIONS IN ISRAEL*Shmuel Bolozky PHONOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN SPOKEN HEBREW*Geoffrey Khan THE STUDY OF MODERN HEBREW SYNTAXToward the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH)*Giora Rahav SAMPLING OF POPULATION AND THE FORMATION OF A REPRESENTATIVE CORPUS*Benjamin Hary and Shlomo Izreel THE PREPARATORY MODEL OF THE CORPUS OF SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW (CoSIH)*Regina E. Werum METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS ON CREATING THE CORPUS OF SPOKEN ISRAELI HEBREW (CoSIH)The volume in English is available for $35 (including shipping) from:The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish StudiesTel-Aviv UniversityPOB 39040IL-61390 Tel AvivIsraelFax +972-3-640 7031 email: jewishsc@post.tau.ac.ilOR sarav@tauex.tau.ac.il