Cohesion and the Yiddish Consecutive Order

Authors

  • Kenneth L. Miner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.572

Keywords:

Yiddish language-- Word order

Abstract

Literary Yiddish shows a high frequency of declarative sentences with subject present and the verb in sentence-initial position--the so-called consecutive order. This study is an initial attempt to correlate this construction with cohesive factors; I am essentially testing a hypothesis pi-.t forward by Hennig Brinkmann and Klaus Fleischmann regarding the same construction in German, where it is very marginal if part of the Schriftsprache at all.

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How to Cite

Miner, . K. L. (1989). Cohesion and the Yiddish Consecutive Order. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 81-96. https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.572