Abstract
The article presents the first evidence of the emergence of a new animacy-based verbal agreement pattern in Israeli Haredi Yiddish. A study of recordings from the years 2017-2020 reveals that plural verbal agreement is always maintained with animate plural nominal subjects, but it is usually lost with inanimate plural nominal subjects. It is suggested that this linguistic change may be supported by the sociolinguistic setting of Israeli Haredi Yiddish speakers.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 200-223 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Jewish Languages |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2022.
Keywords
- agreement
- animacy
- Hasidic Yiddish
- Israeli Haredi Yiddish
- Yiddish
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Language and Linguistics
- History
- Linguistics and Language