[PDF] Dialects Of The Yiddish Language eBook

Author : Alexander Beider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0198739311

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This book traces the origins of modern varieties of Yiddish and presents evidence for the claim that, contrary to most accounts, Yiddish only developed into a separate language in the 15th century. Through a careful analysis of Yiddish phonology, morphology, orthography, and the Yiddish lexicon in all its varieties, Alexander Beider shows how what are commonly referred to as Eastern Yiddish and Western Yiddish have different ancestors. Specifically, he argues that the western branch is based on German dialects spoken in western Germany with some Old French influence, while the eastern branch has its origins in German dialects spoken in the modern-day Czech Republic with some Old Czech influence. The similarities between the two branches today are mainly a result of the close links between the underlying German dialects, and of the close contact between speakers. Following an introduction to the definition and classification of Yiddish and its dialects, chapters in the book investigate the German, Hebrew, Romance, and Slavic components of Yiddish, as well as the sound changes that have occurred in the various dialects. The book will be of interest to all those working in the areas of Yiddish and Jewish Studies in particular, and historical linguistics and history more generally.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780300108873

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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 : D. Katz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1483299503

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Modern research on dialects of the Yiddish language focuses in many instances upon Western Yiddish and the application of Yiddish dialectology to the study of older Yiddish and non-Yiddish monuments. The Second Oxford Winter Symposium on Yiddish Language and Literature reflects this trend and this collection of papers from the conference explores a wide range of contemporary research in the field.

Author : Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351043439

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Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past three thousand years. The book covers more than 50 different languages and language varieties. These include not only well-known Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, but also more exotic languages like Chinese, Esperanto, Malayalam, and Zulu, all of which have a fascinating Jewish story to be told. Each chapter presents the special features of the language variety in question, a discussion of the history of the associated Jewish community, and some examples of literature and other texts produced in it. The book thus takes readers on a stimulating voyage around the Jewish world, from ancient Babylonia to 21st-century New York, via such diverse locations as Tajikistan, South Africa, and the Caribbean. The chapters are accompanied by numerous full-colour photographs of the literary treasures produced by Jewish language-speaking communities, from ancient stone inscriptions to medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary novels and newspapers. This comprehensive survey of Jewish languages is designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in languages or history, regardless of their background—no prior knowledge of linguistics or Jewish history is assumed.

Author : Marion Aptroot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110339528

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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 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 : Neil G. Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521772150

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This 2005 book was the first ever overview of all aspects of Yiddish language and lingustics.

Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : Oxford Linguistics
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199261989

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In this pioneering book Kasia Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts forward a new basis for the analysis of discourse processing. She provides a step-by-step introduction to thetheory and its application, and explains new terms and formalisms as required. Dr Jaszczolt unites the precision of truth-conditional, dynamic approaches with insights from neo-Gricean pragmatics into the role of speaker's intentions in communication. She shows that the compositionality of meaningmay be understood as merger representations combining information from various sources including word meaning and sentence structure, various kinds of default interpretations, and conscious pragmatic inference. Among the applications the author discusses are constructions that pose problems in semantic analysis such as referring expressions, propositional attitude constructions, presupposition, modality, numerals, and sentential connectives. She proposes solutions to cutting edge problems in thesemantics/pragmatics interface - for example, how many levels of meaning should be distinguished; the status of underspecification; how much contextual information should be placed in the representation of the speaker's meaning; whether there are default interpretations; the stage of utteranceinterpretation at which pragmatic inference begins; and whether compositionality is a necessary feature of the theory of meaning and if so how it is to be defined.The book is for students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, and philosophy of language at advanced undergraduate level and above.

Author : Anita Norich
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472053019

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A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history

Author : Salomo A. Birnbaum
Publisher : Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Bibliography. Includes index.