The linguistic position of Western Yiddish between Eastern Yiddish and German

西方意第绪语，曾经是生活在德语区的犹太人使用的方言，在世纪初几乎消失了。对西方意第绪语的不同研究认为，该语言与共同领土的德语方言相同，或者是独立于德语的一个变种，与东方意第绪语联系更紧密。直到最近，人们对西方意第绪语的语言结构和社会语言学状况知之甚少，因为该语言历史的性质使得很难收集足够的研究证据。目前DFG项目“西方意第绪语在（漫长的）19世纪世纪：来源，社会语言学的情况和语法现象”表明，西方意第绪语品种的代表，以及到下半年的19世纪世纪，在一些地区甚至更晚。我们可以证实，该品种已被保存在书面来源，在此之前，该项目尚未进行系统的分析。在这里提出的后续项目中，我们打算将我们对新发现和系统研究的来源中发现的语言结构的分析与同地区德语方言和东部意第绪语的语言结构进行比较。我们将完成以下任务：-西方意第绪语方言发挥“模具Hochzeit祖格罗布斯多夫”（1822年;“婚礼在格罗布斯多夫”），这到目前为止在文献中得到了相对较少的关注，将被编辑和语言学分析。剧本的篇幅（139页手写）和高质量的语言数据使其在目前项目提供的资料来源中占有特殊地位。该剧的文本将被音译和翻译，困难的词汇和语言结构将在对文本的全面评论中讨论，并将提供文本语言的描述和分析。- 12个语音和6个语法变量以及词汇的两个不同的部分将使用一个数据库进行分析，该数据库已经完成了这方面的西方意第绪语文本在目前的项目中确定。这些文本总共超过300篇，构成了11，000多页新发现的19世纪西方意第绪语数据。由于大量的材料，对于每一种现象，最多五个例子将在数据库中编目。- 西方意第绪语的语言现象发现这些分析，然后将与德国和东方意第绪语的数据进行比较。该项目将有助于澄清西方意第绪语的地位，使用以前缺乏的经验基础。在目前的项目中已经完成的分析表明，西意第绪语是一个具有独立语言系统的变体，确实与共同领土的德语不同。

Western Yiddish, the vernacular once used by Jews living in German-speaking areas, had nearly vanished by the early 20th century. Divergent research on Western Yiddish variably considers the language as being identical to the co-territorial German dialects or as a variety independent of German and more closely associated with Eastern Yiddish. Relatively little was known about both the linguistic structure and the sociolinguistic situation of Western Yiddish until recently because the nature of the language's history has made it difficult to gather enough evidence for studies. The current DFG project "Western Yiddish in the (long) 19th century: sources, sociolinguistic situation and grammatical phenomena" has shown that Western Yiddish varieties were represented well into the second half of the 19th century, in some regions even much later. We can confirm that the variety has been preserved in written sources that before this project had not been systematically analyzed. In the follow-up project proposed here we intend to compare our analyses of the linguistic structures found in the newly identified and systematically studied sources with linguistic structures in both the co-territorial German dialects and in Eastern Yiddish. We will complete the following tasks: - The Western Yiddish dialect play "Die Hochzeit zu Grobsdorf" (1822; "The Wedding in Grobsdorf"), which had until now received relatively little attention in the literature, will be edited and linguistically analyzed. The length of the play (139 handwritten pages) and the high quality of the linguistic data have accorded the play a special place among the sources made accessible as a result of the current project. The play's text will be transliterated and translated, difficult lexemes and linguistic structures will be discussed in a thorough commentary on the text, and a description and analyses of the text's language will be provided. - Twelve phonological and six grammatical variables as well as two different sections of vocabulary will be analyzed using a databank that has already been completed for this purpose with respect to the Western Yiddish texts identified in the current project. These texts, over 300 in total, make up over 11,000 pages of newly identified 19th century Western Yiddish data. Because of the large mass of material, for each phenomenon a maximum of five examples pro text will be cataloged in the databank. - The Western Yiddish linguistic phenomena uncovered by these analyses will then be compared with German and Eastern Yiddish data. This project will contribute to clarify the status of Western Yiddish using an empirical basis previously lacking. The analyses that have already been completed in the current project indicate that Western Yiddish was a variety with an independent linguistic system that did indeed diverge from co-territorial German.