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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807370603321

Titolo

Yiddish language structures / / edited by Marion Aptroot, Björn Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-033952-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; 52

Classificazione

GD 8201

Disciplina

439/.15

Soggetti

Yiddish language - Grammar

Yiddish language - Usage

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Noun plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish : a psycholinguistic  perspective / Netta Abugov and Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv) -- Language change in a bilingual community : the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish / Dalit Assouline (Haifa) -- The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews / Steffen Krogh (Århus) -- The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish : an assessment based on morpho-syntactic phenomena / Jürg Fleischer (Marburg) -- Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish / Henrike Kühnert (Jena/Cambridge) and Esther-Miriam Wagner (Jena) -- Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties / Björn Hansen (Regensburg) -- On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish / Johan van der Auwera and Paul Gybels (Antwerp) -- On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative / Moshe Taube (Jerusalem) -- Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation : nasal suffixes creativity across a dual heritage / Simon Neuberg (Trier) -- Yiddish passive constructions : a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish / Sandra Birzer (Regensburg).

Sommario/riassunto

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 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.