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Kama qavei yesod be-torat ha-tsurot shel leshon ha-piyut ha-klasi (Some Fundamental Features of the Morphology of Classical Piyyut)

This article adumbrates a theoretical framework that attempts

to adapt some fundamental concepts of classical linguistic

theory to the study of the language of piyyutim by way of stressing

the latter’s status as a poetic idiom whose linguistic

parameters are frequently determined by literary/structural

considerations. The methods employed to date in the study of piyyut

language are also briefly reviewed, and it is suggested that they

suffer from the weakness of depending on analytical categories imported from Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, and distort the analysis of piyyut Hebrew by sorting its elements into groupings foreign to their actual relations.