Yiddish Language Structures

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Yiddish Language Structures

Edited by: Marion Aptroot and Björn Hansen

Volume 52 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339529

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Yiddish Language Structures presents ten new studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists. The contributions are examples of data-based research. They address several levels of the language system including morphology, syntax and lexicology, and put special emphasis on mechanisms of internal and contact-induced language change spanning different epochs and societal and textual strata.

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Marion Aptroot, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Duesseldorf, Germany; Björn Hansen, University of Regensburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Introduction Marion Aptroot and Björn Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A. Haredi Yiddish today
Noun Plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective Netta Abugov and Dorit Ravid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish Dalit Assouline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews Steffen Krogh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
B. Yiddish in the past
The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morphosyntactic phenomena Jürg Fleischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish Henrike Kühnert and Esther-Miriam Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
C. Yiddish from a typological perspective
Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties Björn Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish Johan van der Auwera and Paul Gybels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative Moshe Taube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage Simon Neuberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish
Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish Sandra Birzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 299
Keywords: Yiddish; Morphology; Syntax

eBook

Published: December 13, 2013
ISBN: 9783110339529

Hardcover

Published: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 9783110339345