Yiddish : : A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition /

Yiddish : : A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition / / S.A. Birnbaum.

One of the great Yiddish scholars of the twentieth century, S.A. Birnbaum (1891–1989) published Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in 1979 towards the end of a long and prolific career. Unlike other grammars and study guides for English speakers, Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar fully describes the Sout...

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VerfasserIn:
Birnbaum, S.A.,
MitwirkendeR:
Baumgarten, Jean,
Birnbaum, David,
Birnbaum, Eleazar,
Weiser, Kalman,
TeilnehmendeR:
Baumgarten, Jean.
Birnbaum, David .
Birnbaum, Eleazar.
Weiser, Kalman.
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:Second Edition
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the New Edition
  • Section A: Introductory Essays
  • 1 A Brief Account of Solomon Birnbaum’s Life
  • 2 Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in its Historical and Cultural Contex
  • 3 Solomon A. Birnbaum: An Appreciation of a Lifetime of Scholarship on Yiddish
  • Section B: Solomon A. Birnbaum’s Yiddish, a Survey and a Grammar (1979)
  • Preface
  • Contents 2
  • The transcription alphabet
  • Abbreviations
  • Part one. Introduction
  • 1 Jewish languages
  • 2 The cultural structure of east Ashkenazic Jewry
  • Part two. A biref survey of the Yiddish language
  • 1 The external history of Yiddish
  • 2 The age of Yiddish
  • 3 The Elements of Yiddish and their phonological history
  • 4 Synthesis
  • 5 Spontaneous Development
  • 6 The Dialects
  • Appendix 1: Old Yiddish or Middle high German?
  • Appendix 2: Double U, Double Waw and Double Yodh
  • Appendix 3: The sources of the New East Yiddish Vowels
  • Appednix 4: Toponymical List
  • Part three: Specimens of Yiddish over eight centuries
  • Specimens of Yiddish over eight centuries
  • Central Yiddish
  • East Yiddish
  • Part four: An outline of Yiddish grammar
  • Note to part four
  • Contents 3
  • Script and sounds
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Part five: Bibliography
  • Contents 4
  • Prefactory Note
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Yiddish as a Jewish language
  • 2 Introduction to the language
  • 3 Grammar
  • 4 The linguistic inheritance of Yiddish and its development
  • 5 Phonology
  • 6 Spelling
  • 7 Transcription
  • 8 Dialects and regional matters
  • 9 Vocabulary, etymology, semantics
  • 10 Onomastics
  • 11 Texts in transcription
  • 12 Texts in Hebrew characters
  • 13 About texts
  • 14 Various linguistic and philological matters
  • 15 Miscellaneous
  • 16 Influence of Yiddish on other languages
  • 17 Folklore
  • 18 Literature
  • 19 Bibliographical writings
  • Supplement to the bibliography
  • Index to the Bibliography
  • Section C. 2016 Bibliography and general index
  • 2016 Supplement to the bibliography
  • General index to the 2016 edition

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