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NYTUD-UCL Yiddish Reading Group 5781

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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