Works in Yiddish Linguistics (ALL © DOVID KATZ)
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2008
The entry "Yiddish" in the YIVO Encyclopedia
Sample maps from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish
2008 version of the questionnaire

2007
Afikoymen (afikomen) in Yiddish dialectology

2006

Origin of the name Zalmen
Origin (and incarnations) of the name Shneur
Review of Jacobs

2005

The Legacy of Yudl Mark
The Oldest Word in the Yiddish Language
Semantics of the word Litvak in Yiddish
Shifting Semantics of the notion yidishíst
Speculations on the Etymology (and Meaning) of katóves

2003
The Gaon of Vilna's Yiddish Dialect (3.7 meg)

1998
Historical Semantics of the term Ashkenazim (3.7 meg)

1996
Yiddish and Rotwelsch (4.2 meg)
A Thousand Years of Yiddish in the European Arena

1995

Origins of the Ashkenazic Mileyl (6.2 meg)

1993
East and West, Khes and Shin, and the Origins of Yiddish (6.9 meg)
The Phonology of Ashkenazic (13.4 meg)

1991
Antiquity of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (20.3 meg)
Hebrew translation by Benjamin Harshav (18.4 meg)
Katoves in the Late Twentieth Century (6.6 meg)
The Children of Heth and the Ego of Linguistics. A Story of Seven Yiddish Mergers (6.3 meg)

1990
Older Yiddish Lexicography: Sources and Methods (12.4 meg)
Review of Frakes

1988

Origins of Yiddish Dialectology (5.1 meg)

1987
The Proto Dialectology of Ashkenaz (6.2 meg)
Grammar of the Yiddish Language (34.1 meg)

1986
The Language of Josef Herz's Esther: Midwestern Yiddish (6.7 meg)
Course on Yiddish Dialectology (11.8 meg)

1985
Hebrew, Aramaic and the Rise of Yiddish (6.3 meg)

1983
Yiddish Dialectology (9.8 meg)
Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Yiddish (375 KB)

1982
Origins of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (PhD thesis, 7.7 meg)

1981

Review of Birnbaum (2.3 meg)

1980
The Wavering Yiddish Segolate and Sociolinguistic Reconstruction (6.7 meg)

1979
Internal Classification of the Western Yiddish Dialects (1.0 meg)

1978

Genetic Notes on Netherlandic Yiddish Vocalism (18.8 meg)
Historic Sources of the Semitic Component High Vowels (2.4 meg)
Judezmo & Yiddish: Proto Vocalism of their Hebrew & Aramaic Component (5.3 meg)
Semantic Classes Resistant to a Yiddish Sound Shift (12.0 meg)
Vocalic Diaphonemes of the Yiddish Dialects (5.0 meg)

1977
Reconstruction of the Proto Vocalism of the Semitic Component in Yiddish (4.5 meg)

1976
From Aramaic to Yiddish (April 1976 handouts to Dec. 1975 paper of the same name) (1.0 meg)

 
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