Yiddish Causal-Noncausal Alternation in Areal Perspective

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ID17823952
AuthorsElena Luchina (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume10
Issue1
Pages87-119
Publication date2022-03-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-bja10017
OpenAlexW4284711844
LanguageEN
References cited17

Languages differ in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which an event is presented as either having an external causer or happening by itself. Some languages make no distinction between the two situations, while others make a morphosyntactic distinction. Yiddish, a Germanic language, differs from other genealogically close Germanic varieties: Yiddish codes causal-noncausal alternation similarly to the coterritorial Slavic languages with which it was in contact, for instance Polish and Russian. The two tendencies that make Yiddish similar to the Slavic languages in this respect are the rise of anticausative marking (direct calquing) and the development of a causative (preference for overt marking)

Causative · German · Germanic languages · Linguistics · Slavic languages · Verb · Yiddish · Computer Science · History · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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