Yiddish language structures
By: edited by Marion Aptroot and Björn Hansen
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology -- 52
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783110339345; 9783110339529
Subjects: Yiddish language; Grammar; Usage; Linguistic change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Noun plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish : a psycholinguistic perspective / Netta Abugov and Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv); title: Language change in a bilingual community : the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish / Dalit Assouline (Haifa); title: The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews / Steffen Krogh (Århus); title: The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish : an assessment based on morpho-syntactic phenomena / Jürg Fleischer (Marburg); title: Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish / Henrike Kühnert (Jena/Cambridge) and Esther-Miriam Wagner (Jena); title: Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties / Björn Hansen (Regensburg); title: On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish / Johan van der Auwera and Paul Gybels (Antwerp); title: On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative / Moshe Taube (Jerusalem); title: Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation : nasal suffixes creativity across a dual heritage / Simon Neuberg (Trier); title: Yiddish passive constructions : a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish / Sandra Birzer (Regensburg).