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SUMMARY: Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence fr
 om  Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish - Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL)
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DTEND:20191024T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:I report on our recent  fieldwork on Yiddish as spoken in the 
 Hasidic \ncommunity in London's Stamford Hill\, in collaboration with Lily
  Kahn \n(UCL\, Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and Zoe Belk (UCL\, Linguistics)
 .\nWe have found that the language has lost morphological gender marking \
 nand case marking on nominals within decades after the Holocaust. As \nevi
 dence\, I will present elicited spoken and written data and published \nwr
 itten data\, comparing present-day language practices to equivalent \npre-
 Holocaust data samples. If we are on the right track\, this means \nthat a
  new variety of Yiddish has born in front of our eyes over the \nlast seve
 nty years\, Hasidic Yiddish. I will also propose that this kind \nof perva
 sive and rapid language change has perhaps never been documented \nbefore 
 and explore the implications of this.\n
LOCATION:GR06/07\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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