Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A. Haredi Yiddish today -- Noun Plurals in Israeli Hasidic Yiddish: a psycholinguistic perspective -- Language change in a bilingual community: the preposition far in Israeli Haredi Yiddish -- The foundations of written Yiddish among Haredi Satmar Jews -- B. Yiddish in the past -- The (original) unity of Western and Eastern Yiddish: an assessment based on morphosyntactic phenomena -- Changes in the position of the finite verb in older Yiddish -- C. Yiddish from a typological perspective -- Yiddish modals, with special reference to their polyfunctionality and constructional properties -- On negation, indefinites, and negative indefinites in Yiddish -- On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative -- Aspects of Yiddish adjective formation: nasal suffixes - creativity across a dual heritage -- D. A new tool for the study of Yiddish -- Yiddish passive constructions: a case study based on the new Corpus of Modern Yiddish -- Index