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Fleischer, Jürg. 2014. Slavic influence in Eastern Yiddish syntax: the case of vos relative clauses. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 226 : 137–161.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper discusses Slavic impact on Eastern Yiddish syntax via the example of vos relative clauses. The finding that this construction's origin can be traced back to Slavic, rather than to Semitic or German, is debated regarding the more general contact condition of Eastern Yiddish. Semitic may be overvalued in the sphere of syntax, whilst the role of Slavic has been undervalued in many former accounts.