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SUMMARY:Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence fro
 m  Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish - Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL)
DTSTART:20191024T153000Z
DTEND:20191024T170000Z
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CONTACT:Julia Heine
DESCRIPTION:I report on our recent  fieldwork on Yiddish as spoken in the 
 Hasidic community in London's Stamford Hill\, in collaboration with Lily K
 ahn (UCL\, Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and Zoe Belk (UCL\, Linguistics).\nW
 e have found that the language has lost morphological gender marking and c
 ase marking on nominals within decades after the Holocaust. As evidence\, 
 I will present elicited spoken and written data and published written data
 \, comparing present-day language practices to equivalent pre-Holocaust da
 ta samples. If we are on the right track\, this means that a new variety o
 f Yiddish has born in front of our eyes over the last seventy years\, Hasi
 dic Yiddish. I will also propose that this kind of pervasive and rapid lan
 guage change has perhaps never been documented before and explore the impl
 ications of this.\n
LOCATION:GR06/07\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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