Yiddish Language Structures.
Title:
Yiddish Language Structures.
Author:
Aptroot, Marion.
ISBN:
9783110339529
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Series:
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; v.52
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Contents:
Introduction -- A. Haredi Yiddish today -- 1. Noun plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective -- 2. Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish -- 3. The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews -- B. Yiddish in the past -- 4. The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morpho-syntactic phenomena -- 5. Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish -- C. Yiddish from a typological perspective -- 6. Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties -- 7. On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish -- 8. On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative -- 9. Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage -- D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish -- 10. Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish -- Index.
Abstract:
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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