: Marion Aptroot, Björn Hansen
: Yiddish Language Structures
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110339529
: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.80
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 305
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The book presents ten data-based studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists. The contributions 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.



Marion Aptroot, Heinrich-Heine-Universitä t, Duesseldorf, Germany;Björn Hansen, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Introduction7
A. Haredi Yiddish today13
1. Noun plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective15
2. Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish45
3. The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews69
B. Yiddish in the past111
4. The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morpho-syntactic phenomena113
5. Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish131
C. Yiddish from a typological perspective149
6. Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties151
7. On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish191
8. On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative237
9. Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage259
D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish273
10. Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish275
Index303