Asya Pereltsvaig
List of John Benjamins publications in which Asya Pereltsvaig is involved.
Articles
2019 “Mame Loshen”: The role of gender-biased language contact in the syntactic development of Yiddish Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, Doron, Edit, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Yael Reshef and Moshe Taube (eds.), pp. 365–386 | Chapter
This paper examines the socio-linguistic situation and mechanisms that led to diachronic changes in the syntax of Eastern Yiddish, such as the emergence of embedded Verb-Second. Following Weinreich (1958), Santorini (1989, 1992) and my earlier work (Pereltsvaig 2017), I analyze these changes as… read more
2017 Esperanto linguistics: State of the art Language Problems and Language Planning 41:2, pp. 168–191 | Article
Esperanto is an unusual language in many ways. First, it was originally created artificially, in a highly multilingual environment. Secondly, it was designed with the express purpose of becoming a language of interlingual communication, a language easy to learn for people from the widest range… read more
2014 Possessives within and beyond NP: Two ezafe- constructions in Tatar Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case, Bondaruk, Anna, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu (eds.), pp. 193–219 | Article
The paper considers possessives in two
ezafe
-constructions in Tatar, a language without articles. More specifically, possessives in the so-called
ezafe
-2 and
ezafe
-3 constructions are distinguished formally by the presence of the genitive case on the possessive and the agreeing… read more