Absence of Morphological Case and Gender Marking in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Worldwide

IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Z. Belk, L. Kahn, K. Szendrői
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Abstract

This paper demonstrates that the language of the post-War generations of adult Haredi (that is, strictly Orthodox), primarily Hasidic, speakers of Yiddish in the major Hasidic centers worldwide lacks morphological case and gender. Elicited spoken and written data from native Haredi speakers of Yiddish from Israel and the United States, aged 18–87, and limited additional evidence from Canada and Belgium, reveal a complete absence of distinction between masculine, feminine, and neuter genders as well as between the nominative, accusative, and dative cases. While some speakers make use of a variety of morphological definite determiner and attributive adjective forms, their use is not determined by case or gender distinctions. Most of the speakers in our study have an invariable determiner pronounced as /dɛ/ or /di/, whereas the earlier case and gender suffixes on attributive adjectives have been reanalyzed as a single attributive marker, /ɛ/. These findings are consistent with our previous work on the loss of case and gender in the Hasidic Yiddish of London’s Stamford Hill and support our proposal that the Yiddish spoken in (primarily Hasidic) Haredi communities can be considered a distinct variety of the language known as Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish.*
当代世界范围内哈西德派意第绪语中形态格和性别标记的缺失
这篇论文证明了战后几代成年哈雷迪(也就是严格的正统派)的语言,主要是哈西德派,在世界各地主要哈西德派中心讲意第绪语的人缺乏形态学的案例和性别。从以色列和美国18-87岁的犹太正统派意第绪语母语者那里获得的口头和书面资料,以及来自加拿大和比利时的有限的额外证据,表明完全没有区分阳性、阴性和中性,也没有区分主格、宾格和格格。虽然有些说话者使用各种形态的定语限定语和定语形容词形式,但它们的使用并不受情况或性别差异的影响。在我们的研究中,大多数说话者都有一个不变的限定词,发音为/d /或/di/,而早期的定语形容词的格和性别后缀被重新分析为一个单一的定语标记,/ /。这些发现与我们之前关于伦敦斯坦福德山哈西德派意第绪语的案例和性别缺失的研究一致,并支持了我们的建议,即(主要是哈西德派)Haredi社区所说的意第绪语可以被认为是当代哈西德派意第绪语的一个独特变体*
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