Yiddish Language Structures /

Yiddish Language Structures / / ed. by Marion Aptroot, Björn Hansen.

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Yiddish Language Structures presents ten new studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists. The contributions are examples of data-based research. They address several levels of the language system including mo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Abugov, Netta,
Aptroot, Marion,
Assouline, Dalit,
Auwera, Johan van der,
Birzer, Sandra,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Gybels, Paul,
Hansen, Björn,
Krogh, Steffen,
Kühnert, Henrike,
Neuberg, Simon,
Ravid, Dorit,
Taube, Moshe,
Wagner, Esther-Miriam,
HerausgeberIn:
Aptroot, Marion,
Hansen, Björn,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 52
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Physical Description:1 online resource (299 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A. Haredi Yiddish today
  • Noun Plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective
  • Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish
  • The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews
  • B. Yiddish in the past
  • The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morphosyntactic phenomena
  • Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish
  • C. Yiddish from a typological perspective
  • Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties
  • On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish
  • On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative
  • Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage
  • D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish
  • Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish
  • Index

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