[PLing] Correction: Talk on Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish. Kriszta Szendröi, 15.10.

Daniel Büring daniel.buring at univie.ac.at
Sun Oct 6 16:40:09 CEST 2019


Kriszta Szendrői from University College London will give a talk on

     Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from 
Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish
     Tuesday, Oct 15, 3:45-5:15pm
     Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Everyone is invited!



Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from 
Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL)

I report on our recent  fieldwork on Yiddish as spoken in the Hasidic 
community in London's Stamford Hill, in collaboration with Lily Kahn 
(UCL, Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and Zoe Belk (UCL, Linguistics).
We have found that the language has lost morphological gender marking 
and case marking on nominals within decades after the Holocaust. As 
evidence, I will present elicited spoken and written data and published 
written data, comparing present-day language practices to equivalent 
pre-Holocaust data samples. If we are on the right track, this means 
that a new variety of Yiddish has born in front of our eyes over the 
last seventy years, Hasidic Yiddish. I will also propose that this kind 
of pervasive and rapid language change has perhaps never been documented 
before and explore the implications of this.







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