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27 - Area Studies
University of Cambridge
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.