Academy of the Hebrew Language
- Academy of the Hebrew Language
words to keep up with today's rapidly changing society. In addition, the Academy regulates spelling, grammar, and vocabulary for government publications and the educational system. Ironically, though the organization's tasks include creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords (which are derived from other languages), its own name is a loanword, "akademya" [See [http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/question2.html] for an explanation (Hebrew).] .
Zuckermann's 2008 article "Realistic Prescriptivism" "provides a critical analysis of the Academy's mission, as intriguingly defined in its constitution: 'to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature'". It argues that the Academy of the Hebrew Language "has begun submitting to the 'real world', accommodating its decrees to the parole of native Israeli speakers, long regarded as 'reckless' and 'lazy'." [See p. 135 of [http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/Realistic_Prescriptivism_Academy.pdf 'Realistic Prescriptivism': The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of 'Good Grammar' and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers] ,"Israel Studies in Language and Society" 1.1 (2008), pp. 135-154, by Ghil'ad Zuckermann.]
See also
*Study of the Hebrew language
*List of language regulators
*YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut)
Notes
External links
* [http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/ The Academy's Web Site] ( [http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/english.html in English] )
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