Dr. Sonya Yampolskaya

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGeneral and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Other European Languages (Linguistics)
Keywordsaddress forms, multilingualism, diglossia, address research, T/V distinction

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionFreie Universität Berlin
InstituteInstitut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Historische Linguistik

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Horst J. SimonInstitut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Historische Linguistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2023

Program(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Sonya Yampolskaya, Lily Kahn: 21 unter 1 dakh: a case study of 21st-century Hasidic children’s literature in Yiddish translation.. In: Yod, Journal of Hebraic and Jewish Studies , 2023,
2023Sonya Yampolskaya, Izzy Posen, Eli Benedict, Lily Kahn: Non-vernacular language in action: Ashkenazic Hebrew in 21st-century diglossic Hasidic communities. In: The IOS Annual, 2023,
2022Sonya Yampolskaya, Lily Kahn: Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew: the grammatical profile of an overlooked twenty-first-century variety. . In: Journal of Semitic Studies, 67, 2022, 199–267
2022Belk, Z., Kahn, L., E. Benedict, K., & Yampolskaya, S. Contemporary Haredi Yiddish bilingual pedagogical materials. In: Journal of Jewish Languages, 10, 2022, 267-305
2022Belk, Z., Kahn, L., Szendroi, K., & Yampolskaya, S. Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community.. Lockdown Culture: The Arts, Humanities and Covid-19. UCL Press, 2022.
2022• Belk, Z., Kahn, L., Szendroi, K., & Yampolskaya, S. Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the UK Hasidic community. . In: Linguistics Vanguard, 2022,
2021Sonya Yampolskaya: Evidence of a T/V distinction in European Hebrew. In: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 7, 2021, 123–150
2021Belk, Z., Kahn, L., Szendroi, K., & Yampolskaya, S.: Innovations in the Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish pronominal system.. Linguistic contact with minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe.. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021.
2019Sonya Yampolskaya, Lily Kahn: Diversity in numbers: a linguistic analysis of numerals in Maskilic Hebrew. In: Hebrew Studies, 60, 2019, 389–417
2017Sonya Yampolskaya: Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s–1910s as a Means of Language Modernization.. In: T. Li and K. Dyer From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries: Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek.. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2017. 309–328
2016Sonya Yampolskaya: Samples of Everyday speech in a Dead Language: Russian Phrasebook in Hebrew of the 19th century.. In: Forum for Anthropology and Culture 29, 2016, 38–65
2016Sonya Yampolskaya: The concept of ‘dead language’ as exemplified by Hebrew. In: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University, 13, 2016, 16–30