| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; v. 52 |
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT
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| 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 |
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6. Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties7. 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Yiddish language -- Grammar
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Yiddish language -- Usage
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change.
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Yiddish language -- Grammar.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aptroot, Marion
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| ISBN |
9783110339529 |
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3110339528 |
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