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Yiddish was the language spoken traditionally by Central European (i.e. Ashkenazi) Jews. It is a West Germanic language 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. 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 Szendrői
(gaertner@nytud.hu; k.szendroi@ucl.ac.uk)
Time: monthly, Mondays 1:30-3pm CET (1 hour ahead of UK)
Place: Zoom; email organisers for link
Sessions
Date | Topic | Presenter | Reading |
23 Nov | General background on Yiddish grammar | KE Szendroi |
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7 Dec | Modals | Irine Burukina |
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18 Jan *2:00pm start | Embedded V2 | Hans-Martin Gaertner |
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8 Feb | Nominal modification, especially adjectives | Zoë Belk |
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8 Mar | Truncated VPs | Tamás Halm |
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26 Apr | Clitics | Márton A. Baló |
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10 May | Interrogatives | Bea Gyuris and Hans Martin Gaertner |
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7 Jun | tba |
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Other topics to be scheduled:
OV-VO characteristics; Hasidic Yiddish (KE Szendrői)
Yiddish Movement (Ágnes Bende-Farkas)
Embedded V2 (Hans-Martin Gaertner)
Yiddish phonology