I think I would like to focus less on the technical side of Hebrew linguistics, since I am sure that has been done to death and by people better at linguistics than me, but rather I would focus on the more cultural and political side of why, and eventually exactly how, Hebrew was simplified from a very arcane ancient semitic language to the extremely simplified and straightforward version taught today. Some of the examples that I could research from things I have already learned in Hebrew would be easily compared to a more complicated language in the same language family, such as MSA. MSA has a total of 13 different verb conjugations, while Hebrew only has 4 (I think).
Broader grammar in Hebrew could also be an interesting area, as especially in recent years, the use of the internet and having large immigrant populations speak broken Hebrew has changed the acceptable and linguistically intelligible word order to become much more fluid. In religious texts, there is a very strict word order than can't be changed for any reason, but nowadays you can switch words around and people will understand without issue.
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