Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the New Edition vii
4. Section A: Introductory Essays ix
5. 1 A Brief Account of Solomon Birnbaum’s Life xi
6. 2 Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in its Historical and Cultural Contex xxiv
7. 3 Solomon A. Birnbaum: An Appreciation of a Lifetime of Scholarship on Yiddish lviii
8. Section B: Solomon A. Birnbaum’s Yiddish, a Survey and a Grammar (1979)
9. Preface lxxxiii
10. Contents 2 lxxxv
11. The transcription alphabet lxxxix
12. Abbreviations xci
13. Part one. Introduction
14. 1 Jewish languages 3
15. 2 The cultural structure of east Ashkenazic Jewry 16
16. Part two. A biref survey of the Yiddish language
17. 1 The external history of Yiddish 33
18. 2 The age of Yiddish 44
19. 3 The Elements of Yiddish and their phonological history 58
20. 4 Synthesis 82
21. 5 Spontaneous Development 86
22. 6 The Dialects 94
23. Appendix 1: Old Yiddish or Middle high German? 106
24. Appendix 2: Double U, Double Waw and Double Yodh 112
25. Appendix 3: The sources of the New East Yiddish Vowels 127
26. Appednix 4: Toponymical List 135
27. Part three: Specimens of Yiddish over eight centuries
28. Specimens of Yiddish over eight centuries 145
29. Central Yiddish 166
30. East Yiddish 169
31. Part four: An outline of Yiddish grammar
32. Note to part four 192
33. Contents 3 193
34. Script and sounds 197
35. Morphology 224
36. Syntax 293
37. Part five: Bibliography
38. Contents 4 310
39. Prefactory Note 311
40. Abbreviations 311
41. 1 Yiddish as a Jewish language 319
42. 2 Introduction to the language 321
43. 3 Grammar 322
44. 4 The linguistic inheritance of Yiddish and its development 325
45. 5 Phonology 326
46. 6 Spelling 329
47. 7 Transcription 330
48. 8 Dialects and regional matters 331
49. 9 Vocabulary, etymology, semantics 335
50. 10 Onomastics 340
51. 11 Texts in transcription 342
52. 12 Texts in Hebrew characters 347
53. 13 About texts 349
54. 14 Various linguistic and philological matters 353
55. 15 Miscellaneous 357
56. 16 Influence of Yiddish on other languages 364
57. 17 Folklore 366
58. 18 Literature 367
59. 19 Bibliographical writings 372
60. Supplement to the bibliography 375
61. Index to the Bibliography 380
62. Section C. 2016 Bibliography and general index
63. 2016 Supplement to the bibliography 391
64. General index to the 2016 edition 431