Neil G. Jacobs
List of John Benjamins publications in which Neil G. Jacobs is involved.
2004 Syncope and foot structure in pre-Ashkenazic Hebrew Diachronica 21:2, pp. 307–327 | Article
This paper examines a set of problems concerning word stress in the substratal Merged Hebrew component in Yiddish. When compared with their historical cognates in Classical Hebrew, the Yiddish words show a stress pattern which appears to conform to the Germanic trochee. The change has frequently… read more
2001 Yiddish in the Baltic region Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. 285–311 | Chapter
1996 Toward a phonological description of l Palatalization in Central Yiddish Germanic Linguistics: Syntactic and diachronic, Lippi-Green, Rosina L. and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 149–168 | Article
1994 Systematic Hyperforeignisms as Maximally External Evidence for Linguistic Rules The Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 67–92 | Article
1993 On Pre-Yiddish Standardization of Quantity Diachronica 10:2, pp. 191–214 | Article
SUMMARY Yiddish possesses a sizable Tiberian Hebrew (TH) substrate component. The modern Yiddish reflexes of original TH words often show evidence of having undergone a number of diachronic phonological developments which seem to parallel similar processes in the German component found in Yiddish.… read more
1990 Northeastern Yiddish Gender-Switch: Abstracting Dialect Features Regionally Diachronica 7:1, pp. 69–100 | Article
SUMMARY The paper offers an analysis of the historical development and structure of the gender system of Northeastern Yiddish (NEY). The analysis is based on descriptions in Weinreich (1961), Herzog (1965), and Wolf (1969). Historically, Yiddish has a three-gender system (masc, fern, neut). Loss of… read more
1989 Review of Wexler (1987): Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics Diachronica 6:2, pp. 291–296 | Review