(selection)
2012
Litvish:
An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (in progress)
Revised
questionnaire
Excerpts
from interviews on YouTube
Excerpts
from interviews on Facebook
2011
On
the Status of Maps in Linguistic Research (with G. Beconytė)
2010
Talking
of Love in Yiddish
Chapters
in Yiddish 9
Chapters
in Yiddish 8
Chapters
in Yiddish 7
Chapters
in Yiddish 6
Chapters
in Yiddish 5
Chapters
in Yiddish 4
Chapters
in Yiddish 3
2009
Chapters
in Yiddish 2
Chapters
in Yiddish 1
Review
of Michael Wex’s Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture
in all its Moods
2008
The
entry "Yiddish" in the YIVO Encyclopedia
On
the word beygl
2007
Afikoymen
(afikomen) in Yiddish dialectology
[ed.]
Yiddish Spelling Conventions for the Algemeyner Zhurnal
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
Symbology
of the Variant Spellings of the word yidish in Yiddish
2004
The
dangers of modern cartography
2003
The
Gaon of Vilna's Yiddish Dialect (3.7 meg)
2001
Yiddish
keyboard for Davkawriter
1999
Professors
of Yiddish ‘decide’ that Yiddish is dead...
1998
The
Religious Prestige of the Gaon and the Secular Prestige of Lithuanian
Yiddish
Historical
Semantics of the term Ashkenazim (3.7 meg)
1997
The
“Yiddishist” book of Akiva-Yehosef Schlesinger (10.9
meg)
The
Maharil and Yiddish (2.3 meg)
1996
Yiddish
and Rotwelsch (4.2 meg)
Review
of the Atlas Vol. II
Ber
Borokhov's Philology and Literary History
A
Thousand Years of Yiddish in the European Arena
1995
On
the Origins of Penultimate Stress (mileyl) in the Semitic Component
of Yiddish
Review
of the Atlas Vol. I
Twelve
Letters from Solomon A. Birnbaum
1994
New
Incarnations of an Old Debate: The (controversial) Lithuanian Yiddish
based Standard Pronunciation (8.8 meg)
1993
East
and West, Khes and Shin, and the Origins of Yiddish (6.9
meg)
The
Phonology of Ashkenazic (13.4 meg)
Amended
Amendments: Issues in Yiddish Stylistics [Tikney Takones. Fragn fun
yidisher stilistik] (6.4 meg)
1992
[ed.]
Code of Yiddish Spelling [Klal-takones fun yidishn oysleyg] (4.9
meg)
The
Crisis of Yiddish Stylistics (1.8
meg)
On
the shtumer alef in the Twenty-First Century [article accepted
by Yidishe kultur but withdrawn by the author; another version
appeared in Undzer tsayt].
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)
Solomon
A. Birnbaum / Shloyme Birnboym (obituary)
The
"Daytshmerish Scare" is a Thing of the Past!
(3.2 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
Ber
Borokhov, Pioneer of Yiddish Linguistics
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 (2.4 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
Vocalic
Diaphonemes of the Yiddish Dialects (5.0 meg)
Review
of Goldsmith (6.6 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)