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<font size=4>Larry:<br>
<br>
Please contact Ellen Prince at UPenn. She gave a
paper here at Chicago 2-3 years ago on the subject matter.<br>
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Sali.<br>
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</font><font size=3>At 10:46 AM 10/25/2000 +0800, you wrote:<br>
>Does anyone use or know of a nice little chapter or article on<br>
>Yiddish-influenced English that includes discussion of the
syntactic<br>
>traits (so-called "Y-movement", as in "A VACuum
cleaner he gives me",<br>
>imported complementizers, as in "I want you should do this
now",<br>
>resumptive pronouns, etc.) as well as lexical items (including<br>
>calques like "go know") and morphological (X-shmX)
processes? There<br>
>are some wonderful treatments of AAVE and Appalachian English<br>
>suitable for intro courses, and I'd be interested in locating a
YE<br>
>parallel.<br>
><br>
>larry<br>
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