Yiddish was the languagespoken traditionally by Central European (i.e.Ashkenazi) Jews. It is a West Germanic languagewith 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 Szendrő
(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 | |
7 Dec | Modals | Irine Burukina | |
18 Jan *2:00pm start | Embedded V2 | Hans-Martin Gaertner | |
8 Feb | Nominal modification, especially adjectives | Zoë Belk | |
8 Mar | Truncated VPs | Tamás Halm | |
26 Apr | Clitics | Márton A. Baló | |
10 May | Interrogatives | Bea Gyuris and Hans Martin Gaertner | |
7 Jun | tba |
Other topics to be scheduled:
OV-VO characteristics; Hasidic Yiddish (KE Szendrő)
Yiddish Movement (Ágnes Bende-Farkas)
Embedded V2 (Hans-Martin Gaertner)
Yiddish phonology