Kriszta Szendrői
Biographic Data
| ID | 1497947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kriszta Szendrői |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kriszta |
| FAMILY NAME | Szendrői |
| SIGNATURE | SZENDRŐI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6883-1631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the UK Hasidic community
This article documents a recent project translating COVID-19 information into Yiddish for the benefit of the Hasidic Jewish communities in London’s Stamford Hill and in Manchester in the UK. The translation work developed as a response to the urgent need for Yiddish-language resources specifically designed for the Hasidic community near the beginning of the pandemic. The translations were undertaken by a team consisting of linguists and native sp…
Absence of Morphological Case and Gender Marking in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Worldwide
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 be…
Introduction: Thematic Issue on Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Worldwide
Information Structure and Scope Interactions: Disjunction Wide Scope Induced by Focus
In this paper we investigate the scopal reading of disjunctions in French negative sentences with pre-schoolers. We posit that the French disjunctor “ou” does not fit the traditional disjunction PPI/non-PPI dichotomy according to which a wide scope is taken by a PPI disjunction and a narrow scope when the disjunction is not a PPI. We hypothesized that focus could be a succesful scopal manipulator. Using Truth Value Judgment Tasks (TVJT), we teste…
The Loshn Koydesh Component in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
The loshn koydesh (Hebrew and Aramaic) component has historically influenced the development of Yiddish lexis and grammar. We examine its contemporary use among 26 native speakers of contemporary Hasidic Yiddish from Israel, New York, and London using a written questionnaire examining the gender of loshn koydesh nouns, periphrastic verbs with a Hebrew/Aramaic element, and adjectives derived from the loshn koydesh element of periphrastics. Our fin…
Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French, and German three-, four-, five- and six-year-olds
Previous research on young children's knowledge of prosodic focus marking has revealed an apparent paradox, with comprehension appearing to lag behind production. Comprehension of prosodic focus is difficult to study experimentally due to its subtle and ambiguous contribution to pragmatic meaning. We designed a novel comprehension task, which revealed that three- to six-year-old children show adult-like comprehension of the prosodic marking of su…
Focus Movement
A language has a focus construction if a focused constituent (at least optionally) appears in a non‐canonical syntactic position. Jackendoff's (1972) invention, the [focus] feature, and Chomsky's (1976) observation that focus gives rise to weak crossover effects paved the way for an analysis of focus constructions as instances of focus movement. For presentational purposes the analyses can be divided into three groups, which also by‐and‐large cor…
A flexible approach to the mapping of intonational phrases
We propose that for the syntax–prosody mapping of clauses and intonational phrases, the notion of ‘clause’ should be determined in a flexible manner, making reference to the highest position to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary or a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. This contrasts with rigid approaches, which assume that mapping is based on par…
Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear. We conducted an experiment to investigate these alleged differences, thereby contributing new data to the debate. We have found that pragmatic strategies dependent on verification and topicalisation, suggested in the context of trivalent/partial theories, indeed play a role …
A flexible approach to discourse-related word order variations in the DP
Interpretative Effects of Multiple Determiners in Greek
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
Superman Sentences
January 01 2004 Superman Sentences In Special Collection: CogNet Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kriszta Szendrői Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Online Issn: 1530-9150 P…
Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics
Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics
A stress-based approach to the syntax of Hungarian focus
A focused constituent contains the most prominent stress of the clause (Selkirk 1984, Reinhart 1995).Reinhart accounts for this by a PF/LF mapping rule.I extend this view to Hungarian, a language with contrastive focus movement, and show that a range of data, some of which pose a problem for a featuredriven approach, can be accounted for straightforwardly.Among these are the uniqueness of focus movement and the fact that verb-focusing does not st…
A stress-based approach to the syntax of Hungarian focus
A focused constituent contains the most prominent stress of the clause (Selkirk 1984, Reinhart 1995).Reinhart accounts for this by a PF/LF mapping rule.I extend this view to Hungarian, a language with contrastive focus movement, and show that a range of data, some of which pose a problem for a featuredriven approach, can be accounted for straightforwardly.Among these are the uniqueness of focus movement and the fact that verb-focusing does not st…
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics
Superman Sentences
January 01 2004 Superman Sentences In Special Collection: CogNet Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kriszta Szendrői Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Online Issn: 1530-9150 P…
A flexible approach to discourse-related word order variations in the DP
Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics
A stress-based approach to the syntax of Hungarian focus
A focused constituent contains the most prominent stress of the clause (Selkirk 1984, Reinhart 1995).Reinhart accounts for this by a PF/LF mapping rule.I extend this view to Hungarian, a language with contrastive focus movement, and show that a range of data, some of which pose a problem for a featuredriven approach, can be accounted for straightforwardly.Among these are the uniqueness of focus movement and the fact that verb-focusing does not st…
Superman Sentences
January 01 2004 Superman Sentences In Special Collection: CogNet Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kriszta Szendrői Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Online Issn: 1530-9150 P…
Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
Interpretative Effects of Multiple Determiners in Greek
A flexible approach to discourse-related word order variations in the DP
Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear. We conducted an experiment to investigate these alleged differences, thereby contributing new data to the debate. We have found that pragmatic strategies dependent on verification and topicalisation, suggested in the context of trivalent/partial theories, indeed play a role …
A flexible approach to the mapping of intonational phrases
We propose that for the syntax–prosody mapping of clauses and intonational phrases, the notion of ‘clause’ should be determined in a flexible manner, making reference to the highest position to which the verbal material (i.e. the verb itself, the inflection, an auxiliary or a question particle) is overtly moved or inserted, together with the material in its specifier. This contrasts with rigid approaches, which assume that mapping is based on par…
Focus Movement
A language has a focus construction if a focused constituent (at least optionally) appears in a non‐canonical syntactic position. Jackendoff's (1972) invention, the [focus] feature, and Chomsky's (1976) observation that focus gives rise to weak crossover effects paved the way for an analysis of focus constructions as instances of focus movement. For presentational purposes the analyses can be divided into three groups, which also by‐and‐large cor…
Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French, and German three-, four-, five- and six-year-olds
Previous research on young children's knowledge of prosodic focus marking has revealed an apparent paradox, with comprehension appearing to lag behind production. Comprehension of prosodic focus is difficult to study experimentally due to its subtle and ambiguous contribution to pragmatic meaning. We designed a novel comprehension task, which revealed that three- to six-year-old children show adult-like comprehension of the prosodic marking of su…
The Loshn Koydesh Component in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
The loshn koydesh (Hebrew and Aramaic) component has historically influenced the development of Yiddish lexis and grammar. We examine its contemporary use among 26 native speakers of contemporary Hasidic Yiddish from Israel, New York, and London using a written questionnaire examining the gender of loshn koydesh nouns, periphrastic verbs with a Hebrew/Aramaic element, and adjectives derived from the loshn koydesh element of periphrastics. Our fin…
Information Structure and Scope Interactions: Disjunction Wide Scope Induced by Focus
In this paper we investigate the scopal reading of disjunctions in French negative sentences with pre-schoolers. We posit that the French disjunctor “ou” does not fit the traditional disjunction PPI/non-PPI dichotomy according to which a wide scope is taken by a PPI disjunction and a narrow scope when the disjunction is not a PPI. We hypothesized that focus could be a succesful scopal manipulator. Using Truth Value Judgment Tasks (TVJT), we teste…
Absence of Morphological Case and Gender Marking in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Worldwide
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 be…
Introduction: Thematic Issue on Contemporary Haredi Yiddish Worldwide
Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the UK Hasidic community
This article documents a recent project translating COVID-19 information into Yiddish for the benefit of the Hasidic Jewish communities in London’s Stamford Hill and in Manchester in the UK. The translation work developed as a response to the urgent need for Yiddish-language resources specifically designed for the Hasidic community near the beginning of the pandemic. The translations were undertaken by a team consisting of linguists and native sp…
Linguistics (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · History (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Yiddish (4 works)