Yiddish Language Structures

Author : Marion Aptroot,Björn Hansen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110339529

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Yiddish Language Structures by Marion Aptroot,Björn Hansen Pdf

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.

Author : Sandra Birzer,Björn Hansen,Universität Regensburg. Institut für Slavistik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Yiddish language
ISBN : OCLC:847139974

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Yiddish Language Structures by Sandra Birzer,Björn Hansen,Universität Regensburg. Institut für Slavistik Pdf

Author : Ewa Geller,Michał Gajek,Agata Reibach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004525214

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Yiddish as a Mixed Language by Ewa Geller,Michał Gajek,Agata Reibach Pdf

Yiddish has so far been mostly described as a linear, genetic descendant of German. This volume makes a case for the mixed character of the idiom and the formative role of the Slavic component in its creation and development.

Author : Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191531248

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The World Atlas of Language Structures by Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie Pdf

The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.

Author : Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504556

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Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present by Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor Pdf

This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

Author : Ana Deumert,Stephanie Durrleman-Tame
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027252517

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Structure and Variation in Language Contact by Ana Deumert,Stephanie Durrleman-Tame Pdf

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English (Hackert). A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300108877

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History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich Pdf

Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich's copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.

Author : Cristina Nilsson
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783638823821

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Yiddish: origins and use by Cristina Nilsson Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: sehr gut, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: Origins: Yiddish is the historic language of Asheknazic (Central and East European) Jews, and is the third principal literary language in Jewish history, after classical Hebrew and (Jewish) Aramaic. The language is characterized by a synthesis of Germanic (the major component, derived from medieval German city dialects, themselves recombined) with Hebrew and Aramaic. Scholars tend to locate the origins of Yiddish in the Rhineland, where a handwritten prayer book from 1272 was found in the city of Worms containing the earliest known written Yiddish sentence. 2 Yiddish has a particular tradition: it took root and flowered in the ghettos (from Venetian gheto, a foundry on a small island where in XVI Jews were confined3), starting in walled juderías in Spain in the thirteenth century (according to the Lateran Councils of 1179 and 1215 it was forbidden to Jews to live close to Christians and in 1555 Paul IV ordered segregated quarters for Jews in the Papal States).

Author : Lea Schäfer
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783487424255

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Syntax and Morphology of Yiddish Dialects by Lea Schäfer Pdf

Der Faschismus des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die jüdische Kultur in Europa in ihrer ursprünglichen Form und Verbreitung weitgehend zerstört. Die Überlebenden brachten ihre Kultur in neue Umgebungen, wo sie teilweise wiederbelebt wurde. Auch die Sprachen fielen dem zum Opfer oder wurden im Zuge der Assimilation und Akkulturation aufgegeben oder zumindest durch die verschiedenen neuen Kontaktsituationen stark beeinflusst. Als in den 1950er Jahren absehbar war, dass viele Überlebende, die in den alten europäischen Territorien aufgewachsen waren, ihre Muttersprache nicht an ihre Kinder und Enkel weitergeben würden, erkannte Uriel Weinreich die Notwendigkeit und Chance, Sprache und Kultur dieser Sprecher systematisch zu dokumentieren. Im Rahmen seines Projekts 'Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry' (LCAAJ) sammelten 18 Interviewer zwischen 1959 und 1972 auf der Grundlage eines umfangreichen Fragebogens Interviews mit fast 1.000 Informanten. Das im Rahmen des LCAAJ gesammelte Material ist ein unerschöpflicher Fundus und die beste Quelle, die wir zu den historischen jiddischen Dialekten Mitteleuropas haben. Mit der Veröffentlichung der digitalisierten Kopien der schriftlichen Aufzeichnungen (Feldnotizen) durch die Columbia Libraries im Jahr 2018 wurden die Rohdaten des LCAAJ der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Zwischen 2017 und 2022 hat das Projekt 'Syntax of Eastern Yiddish Dialects' (SEYD) diese Feldnotizen im Hinblick auf syntaktische und auch morphologische Strukturen ausgewertet. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert eine Auswahl dieser Phänomene. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den empirischen Daten sowie deren Einbettung in einen (mikro)typologischen Kontext. Eine Vielzahl von Karten veranschaulicht die räumliche Dimension der grammatischen Variation in den ehemaligen europäischen jiddischen Dialekten.

Author : Dov-Ber Kerler
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780585223575

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Politics of Yiddish by Dov-Ber Kerler Pdf

Politics of Yiddish means different things to different people. For some it refers to the various social and political forces that shaped the status and the functional diversification of the language. For others it may be analyzed within the context of personal or even collective love and hate of one’s mother-tongue vis-à-vis the politically “mightier” and “culturally more prestigious” languages. After the Second World War, the post-Holocaust realities forced a complete reconceptualization of Yiddishism as both an ideology and a state of mind. Yet, despite or perhaps because of numerous heated debates for and against Yiddish, and the unabating personal wars within the “Yiddishist” camp itself, the subject of Politics of Yiddish is bound to fascinate many modern historians, sociolinguists, and literary scholars. In the present volume it serves as a general theme for studies devoted to internal and external politics of Yiddish language, literature, ethnography, and scholarship.

Author : Adrian Battye,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195358797

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Clause Structure and Language Change by Adrian Battye,Ian Roberts Pdf

The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical, comparative, or historical syntax.

Author : Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004268594

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Soviet Yiddish by Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh Pdf

This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.

Author : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198

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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Yiddish language
ISBN : 0300109601

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History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich Pdf

Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich’s copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.

Author : Salomo A. Birnbaum
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Yiddish language
ISBN : 0719007690

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Yiddish by Salomo A. Birnbaum Pdf