%0 Journal Article %T Spectra and Corpora of a New Mother Tongue %A Keren Gitai %J Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Fran£¿ais de J¨¦rusalem %D 2012 %I Centre de Recherche Fran?ais de J¨¦rusalem (CRFJ) %X An everyday secular language whose basis is spiritual, cultural and religious, Hebrew, assesses the genesis of a contemporary mother tongue. How is a new mother tongue formed? Are there, in this specific language of verbal transmission between generations, versions, attempts, explorations or experiments, which could trace this process? The study of multifaceted Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, figure of the "resurrection" of Hebrew, as well as the study of the corpus of his personal library, allow us to explore the essential place of the text in the Hebraic mother tongue. %K Hebrew %K mother tongue %K Eliezer Ben-Yehuda %K intertextuality %K anastylosis %U http://bcrfj.revues.org/6637