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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kerler, Dov-Ber, 1958- Origins of modern literary Yiddish. New York : Clarendon Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607164334 Online version: Kerler, Dov-Ber, 1958- Origins of modern literary Yiddish. New York : Clarendon Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607849754 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dov-Ber Kerler |
| ISBN: | 0198151667 9780198151661 |
| OCLC Number: | 31709810 |
| Language Note: | English text with examples of Yiddish, and appendices in Yiddish. |
| Description: | xiii, 347 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Objectives -- The Structure and History of Yiddish -- The Fusion Nature of Yiddish -- Historical and Socio-linguistic Factors -- Basic Premisses -- Yiddish as a Literary Language -- The Old Literary Language -- Literary and Spoken Yiddish -- The Historical Factors -- The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish: Concepts, Sources, and Strategies -- The Point of Departure -- Causation -- Literary Correlates -- Linguistic Aspects -- General Plan of the Book -- Eastern Yiddish in the Old Literary Language -- Pre-eighteenth-century Yiddish books from Eastern Europe -- Traces of Eastern Yiddish in Old Yiddish Literature -- Eastern Yiddish Features in the Seventeenth Century -- The Seventeenth-century Commemorative Poems -- Two Early Eighteenth-Century East European Texts -- Two Books from the Early Eighteenth Century -- Derekh tomim (Zholkve, 1723) -- Derekh khayim (Zholkve, c. 1723) -- Textual Sources -- The Language of Derekh tomim and Derekh khayim -- Phonology -- Lexicon -- Morphology -- Semantic Change -- Syntax -- Transition: Easternization of Old Literary Yiddish -- The Late Eighteenth-Century Eastern Re-Editions of Kav Hayosher -- The Original Work and its Language -- The Early Western Editions -- Orthography -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Lexicon -- Syntax -- The Eastern Yiddish Re-editions -- Orthography -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Lexicon -- Morpho-syntax -- Syntax -- The Eastern Revision of Tsene rene -- Linguistic Easternization of Tsene rene (Hanau, 1622; Amsterdam, 1726; Lemberg, 1786) -- Orthography -- Phonology. |
| Series Title: | Oxford modern languages and literature monographs. |
| Responsibility: | Dov-Ber Kerler. |
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Kerler's study ... is characterized by an elegant precision in style that is rare in studies of this kind ... In one stroke ... Kerler clears away the accumulated detritus of a century of baseless speculation and merely conventional wisdom ... Kerler's exemplary work ... will be the basis of all future study of the most important transition in the history of the Yiddish literary language. * Jerold C.Frakes, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2001 * theoretically sophisticated, elegantly written, and meticulously researched and documented study ... Kerler's citation practice serves all potential readers... The extensive bibliography ... demonstrates the astonishing breadth of Kerler's research for this project. * Jerold C.Frakes, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April 2001 * Read more...
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- Yiddish language -- Grammar, Historical.
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- Yiddish language -- Style.
- Littérature juive -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature juive -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Yiddish (langue) -- Grammaire historique.
- Yiddish (langue) -- 18e siècle.
- Littérature yiddish -- Histoire et critique.
