Creating a subcorpus of a heritage language on the example of Yiddish
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2016/07/0012/000271Keywords:
corpus linguistics, Yiddish, multimedia corpus, L2 corpus, heritage languageAbstract
The paper presents a Yiddish heritage subcorpus on the basis of the Corpus of Modern Yiddish. The contemporary status of the Yiddish language and the absence of monolingual speakers nowadays makes it perfect candidate for research within the framework of heritage languages. Yiddish exists in different sociolinguistic contexts and forms plenty of bilingual pairs. Corpus-linguistic approach, especially in corpora with multimedia utilities and L2 component, enlarges the variety of possible instruments and subjects of research. The paper discusses practical issues of creating and using a multimodal corpus of the Yiddish language with a special focus on the more recently added subcorpus of recorded interviews with L2 speakers of Yiddish, while analyzing the corpus architecture, the corpus representativity, L2 corpus marking.
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