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Yiddish was the language听spoken traditionally by Central European (i.e.听Ashkenazi) Jews. It is a West Germanic language听with a considerable Hebrew and Aramaic, and in some of its dialects a Slavic component. Yiddish has written records spanning 800 years and has been well studied.听In monthly sessions throughout the 2020/21 academic year, i.e. the year 5781 according to the Hebrew calendar, we will explore existing linguistic work on Yiddish, concentrating on work on Yiddish syntax.
Organisers: Hans-Martin Gaertner and Kriszta Eszter Szendr艖颈
(gaertner@nytud.hu;听k.szendroi@ucl.ac.uk)
Time: monthly, Mondays 1:30-3pm CET听(1 hour ahead of UK)
Place: Zoom; email organisers for link
Sessions
Date | Topic听 | Presenter听 | Reading听 |
23 Nov听 | General background on Yiddish grammar听 | KE Szendroi听 | 听 |
7 Dec听 | Modals听 | Irine Burukina听 | 听 |
18 Jan *2:00pm start | Embedded V2 | Hans-Martin Gaertner | 听 |
8 Feb听 | Nominal modification, especially adjectives听 | Zo毛 Belk听 | 听 |
8 Mar听 | Truncated VPs听 | Tam谩s Halm听 | 听 |
26 Apr听 | Clitics听 | M谩rton A. Bal贸听 | 听 |
10 May听 | Interrogatives听 | Bea Gyuris and Hans Martin Gaertner | 听 |
7 Jun听 | tba听 | 听 | 听 |
Other topics to be scheduled:
OV-VO characteristics; Hasidic Yiddish (KE Szendr艖颈)
Yiddish Movement (脕gnes Bende-Farkas)
Embedded V2 (Hans-Martin Gaertner)
Yiddish phonology
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