Yinglish

[Salikoko Mufwene]

Larry:

     Please contact Ellen Prince at UPenn. She gave a paper here at Chicago
2-3
years ago on the subject matter.

Sali.

At 10:46 AM 10/25/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>Does anyone use or know of a nice little chapter or article on
>Yiddish-influenced English that includes discussion of the syntactic
>traits (so-called "Y-movement", as in "A VACuum cleaner he gives me",
>imported complementizers, as in "I want you should do this now",
>resumptive pronouns, etc.) as well as lexical items (including
>calques like "go know") and morphological (X-shmX) processes?  There
>are some wonderful treatments of AAVE and Appalachian English
>suitable for intro courses, and I'd be interested in locating a YE
>parallel.
>
>larry
>
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Salikoko S. Mufwene                        s-mufwene at uchicago.edu
University of Chicago                      773-702-8531; FAX 773-834-0924
Department of Linguistics
1010 East 59th Street
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