Article Title：Word order in Yiddish narrative discourse
Abstract：
Based on data from spoken narrative discourse in Yiddish, this paper analyses two structures common in Yiddish narrations: The placement of the finite verb in the first position of a declarative sentence, and topicalization. Like German, Yiddish word order is generally centered around a verb-second rule. However, both Yiddish and spoken German show configurations of word order that go against the rule, where the finite verb occupies the first position of the utterance. From a functional-pragmatic point of view, these structures can be said to serve special purposes in the interaction between speaker and listener, sometimes in particular discourse types. Differences and similiarities in word order between Yiddish and German enable us to comment on the relationship between these two closely related languages. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: functional pragmatics; word order; topicalization; movement; German; Yiddish
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(00)00065-5
Source：JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
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