[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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