The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature: Fifth Collection.
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press and YIVO, 1993. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo, blue cloth with gold lettering, 327 pp., b/w illustrations, contributors, index. Very Good. Item #13938
ISBN: 0810110121
Articles are "The Yiddish Thematic Verbs," Edward Stankiewicz, "Normativism and the Notion of Authenticity in Yiddish Linguisitics," Christopher Hutton, On the Discourse Functions of Syntactic Form in Yiddish: Expletive ES and Subject Posting," Ellen F. Prince, "Early Yiddish Vowel Systems: A Contribution by William G. Moulton to the Debate on the Origins of Yiddish," Robert D. King, "Central Yiddish Breaking and Drawl: The Implications of Fusion for a Phonological Rule," Neil G. Jacobs, "Les manuscrits Yidich de la Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris," Jean Baumgarten, "Fantasy, Realism, and National Identity in Soviet Identity in Soviet Yiddish Juvenile Literature: Itzik Kipnis's Books for Children," David Goldberg, "Der Nister's 'In vayn-keler': A Study in Metaphor, "The First Yiddish Translation of Julius Shakespeare," Dahlia Kaufman, "'Geyt a yid in shenkl arayn': Yiddish Songs of Drunkenness," Robert A. Rothstein, "'We Can Read and Understand': A Semiotic Analysis of the American Yiddish Primer and the Transformation of Literacy," Jeffrey Shandler.
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