Jewish Language Research Website

Ellen F. Prince

Academic Affiliation

• University of Pennsylvania, United States

Contact Information

• Email: ellen @ central.cis.upenn.edu
• Website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ellen/

Research Interests

Discourse Functions of Syntax and Related Phenomena, Language Contact, Code-Switching and Dialect Shift, Yiddish

• Prince, E. F. To appear. The Yiddish Impersonal Pronoun _men_ 'one' from a Centering Perspective. Papers from the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society.
• Prince, E. F. 2001. Yiddish as a Contact Language. In N. Smith & T. Veenstra (eds.), Creolization and Contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 263-90.
• Prince, E. F. & Pintzuk, S. 2000. Bilingual Code-Switching and the Open/Closed Class Distinction. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 6/3: Chapter 13.
• Prince, E. F. 1999. How Not to Mark Topics: 'Topicalization' in English and Yiddish. In Texas Linguistics Forum. Austin: University of Texas. Chapter 8.
• Prince, E. F. 1998. Subject-Prodrop in Yiddish. In P. Bosch & R. van der Sandt (eds.), Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 82-104.
• Prince, E. F. 1998. The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change. In M. Schmid, J. R. Austin & D. Stein (eds.), Historical Linguistics 1997. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 339-62.
• Prince, E. F. 1997. On Kind-Sentences, Resumptive Pronouns, and Relative Clauses. In G. Guy, C. Feagin & J. Baugh (eds.), Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honour of William Labov 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 223-35.
• Prince, E. F. 1997. On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse. In A. Kamio (ed.), Directions in Functional Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 117-44.
• van der Auwera, J., Jacobs, N. & Prince, E. F. 1994. Yiddish. In E. Koenig & J. van der Auwera (eds.), The Germanic Languages. London: Routledge.
• Prince, E. F. 1993. On the Discourse Functions of Syntactic Form in Yiddish. In D. Goldberg, M. Herzog, B. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett & D. Miron (eds.), The Field of Yiddish, 5th Collection: Studies in Yiddish Language, Folklore, and Literature. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press / New York: YIVO. 59-86.
• Prince, E. F. 1992. On Syntax in Discourse, in Language Contact Situations. In C. Kramsch & S. McConnell-Ginet (eds.), Text and Context: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Language Study. Boston: D. C. Heath. 98-112.
• Prince, E. F. 1990. Syntax and Discourse: A Look at Resumptive Pronouns. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 482-97.
• Prince, E. F. 1988. Yiddish Wh-Clauses, Subject-Postposting, and Topicalization. In J. Powers & K. de Jong (eds.), ESCOL '88. Columbus: Ohio State University. 403-15.
• Prince, E. F. 1989. On Pragmatic Change: The Borrowing of Discourse Functions. In A. Kasher (ed.), Cognitive Aspects of Language Use. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1-14.
• Prince, E. F. 1988. On Pragmatic Change: The Borrowing of Discourse Functions. Journal of Pragmatics 12:505-518.
• Prince, E. F. 1988. The Discourse Functions of Yiddish Expletive ES + Subject-Postposing. Papers in Pragmatics 2:176-194.
• Prince, E. F. 1988. Accommodation Theory and Dialect Shift: A Case Study from Yiddish. In N. Coupland & H. Giles (eds.), Language and Communication 8/3-4: 307-320.
• Prince, E. F. 1987. Sarah Gorby, Yiddish Folksinger: A Case Study of Dialect Shift. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 67: 83-116.
• Davis, L. & Prince, E. F. 1986. Yiddish Verb-Topicalization and the Notion 'Lexical Integrity'. In A. Farley, P. Farley & K.-E. McCullough (eds.), Papers from the 22nd Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. 90-97.