Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. A. Haredi Yiddish today
5. Noun Plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective 9
6. Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish 39
7. The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews 63
8. B. Yiddish in the past
9. The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morphosyntactic phenomena 107
10. Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish 125
11. C. Yiddish from a typological perspective
12. Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties 145
13. On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish 185
14. On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative 231
15. Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage 253
16. D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish
17. Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish 269
18. Index 297