Publications

Schäfer, Lea (forthcoming): "Variation or change? The case of itself and itself." In: Linguistische Berichte.

Schäfer, Lea (forthcoming): "Indexicalization of grammatical structures: findings from literary dialect adaptations (16th-19th century)" In: Syntax from a Saarbrücken perspective (ZDL-Beihefte)

Schäfer, Lea (forthcoming): "West- und Ostjiddisch im Kontext der deutschen Dialekte." (Proceedings of the conference  JüdischeSprachen in Deutschland - Wie deutsch ist Jiddisch?, Tikvah-Institut/Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 24-25.10.2021 Berlin)

Schäfer, Lea (in publication): "Language change. The language situation of Jews in the German variety spectrum". In: Alfred Bodenheimer, Stephan Braese, Primus-Heinz Kucher, Gerald Lamprecht et al. (eds.): Handbuch deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur. J.B. Metzler.

Schäfer, Lea (forthcoming): "Adaptations of small languages in German-language theater" In: Theater in small and regional languages.

Schäfer, Lea (2024): "Faktoren von Frequenz und Produktivität von Diminution in frühen Dialekterhebungen des Deutschen". In: Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 8.1, 41-92. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2023): "Diachronic approaches to stereotype formation using the example of Alemannic dialects of Switzerland". In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics (90), 346-369

Schäfer, Lea (2023): "Yiddish." In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2022): "Auxiliary Selection in Yiddish Dialects". In: Journal of Germanic Linguistics 34(4), 341-384. Link [Manuscript with unstamped maps]

Schäfer, Lea (2022): "Valence orientation and valence marking in the language history of German. A diachronic and (micro-)typological corpus study" In: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 50.2, 320-362. Link

Pheiff, Jeffrey & Schäfer, Lea (2022): "komen 'come' + Verb of Movement. Diatopic and Semantic Variation in Spoken Varieties of Dutch" In: Taal en Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries (74.1), 10-54. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2022): "dar ging he staan - Verbal reflexivization in (Middle) Low German?". In: Correspondence Journal of the Association for Low German Language Research (VndS) No.129, 30-44. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2022): "A Language is its Dialects. The Geolinguistics of Eastern Yiddish." In: Zukunft der Sprache - Zukunft der Nation?: Verhandlungen des Jiddischen und Jüdischen im Kontext der Czernowitzer Sprachkonferenz, ed.: Carmen Reichert, Bettina Bannasch and Alfred Wildfeuer, Berlin: De Gruyter, 37-68. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2022): How Bavarian is Yiddish? Morphosyntactic evidence for a Yiddish-Upper German dialect continuum. In. Vergeiner, Philip C., Stephan Elspaß & Dominik Wallner (eds.). Structure of variation between individual and society. Proceedings of the 14th Bavarian-Austrian Dialectology Conference, Salzburg, November 7-9, 2019 (ZDL-Beihefte). Stuttgart: Steiner, 361-384. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2021): "Is a structuralist dialectology still up to date?" In: Syntax from a Saarbrücken perspective vol. 4 (ZDL-Beihefte), 199-215. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2020): "The development of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry for dialect syntax". In: Christen, Helen / Ganswindt, Brigitte / Herrgen, Joachim / Schmidt, Jürgen Erich (eds.): Regiolekt - Der neue Dialekt? Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Association for Dialectology of German (IGDD). (ZDL-Beihefte 182). Stuttgart: Steiner, 269-288. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2020): "Modus and tense in Yiddish: Analyses of the subjunctive in Yiddish dialects". In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 87.3, 328-374. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2020): "kommen und Bewegungsverb in West Germanic varieties" In: Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht vol. 3 (ZDL-Beihefte), 145-190. Link Manuscript

Schäfer, Lea (2020): "Yiddish Wenkerbögen. In addition to reflections on the genesis of Yiddish plural diminution based on the Wenker materials." In: Minority languages and language minorities: Deutsch und seine Kontaktsprachen in der Dokumentation der Wenker-Materialien (Deutsche Dialektgeographie), 167-206. Link Manuscript

Schäfer, Lea (2019): "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Fragebogenmaterialien des 'Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry' am Beispiel der Wortstellung von Verbpartikeln" In: Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia (28), 5-31. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2019): "Between fiction and reality: The Vienna Jewish cabaret as a mirror of Vienna Jewish speech". In: Journal of Jewish Languages, 1-18.

Schäfer, Lea & Schallert, Oliver (2019): "Languages without grammar"? The morphosyntax of numeralia in German special languages In: Sprachwissenschaft Bd. 44 Heft 4, 386-405.

Schäfer, Lea (2018): "Outlawing Orality: Western Yiddish Reflexes in German Fiction." In: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2017): "On the Role of Salience in Language Contact - Poetic Licenses as a Source of German-Yiddish Language Contact." In: Language contact research - explanatory. (Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics vol. 84) Stuttgart: Steiner, 362-382.

Schäfer, Lea (2017): "On the frontier between Eastern and Western Yiddish: The Language of the Jews from Burgenland." In: European Journal of Jewish Studies Vol 11, 130-147.

Schäfer, Lea (2016): "Far less than a 'hint of Jewish pronunciation' - On the language of A.W. Schlegel's Shylock." In: Athenaeum, Yearbook of the Friedrich Schlegel Society 26th year, 221-242.

Schäfer, Lea & Leser, Stephanie & Cysouw, Michael (2016): "Imitating Closely Related Varieties." In: The Future of Dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV, 246-260. Link

Fleischer, Jürg & Schäfer, Lea (2014): "Jiddisch in den Marburger Wenker-Materialien. In: Jiddistik Mitteilungen. Yiddish Studies in German-speaking Countries." No. 52, 1-34.

Schäfer, Lea (2014): "Morphosyntactic interferences in Yiddish-Alemannic language contact. An investigation based on western Yiddish dialect literature from Alsace." In: Huck, Dominique (ed.). Alemannic dialectology: Dialects in contact. Contributions to the 17th Workshop on Alemannic Dialectology 2011. (Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics Supplements 155). Wiesbaden/Stuttgart: Steiner, 247-260.

Schäfer, Lea (2013): "Yiddish varieties in 19th century Berlin: Analysis of Aron Hirsch Heymann's "memoirs"." In: Ashkenaz. Journal for Jewish History and Culture. Vol. 21, 155-177.

Fleischer, Jürg & Schäfer, Lea (2012): "Kasus nach Präposition in west Yiddish sources of the (long) 19th century." In: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka, Simon Neuberger (eds.): לקט .יידישע שטודיעס היינט [Yiddish Studies Today; Yiddish Studies Today], 415-436. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2023): Syntax and Morphology of Yiddish Dialects: Findings from the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry. (German dialect geography). Hildesheim: Olms link

Schäfer, Lea (2021): Onymic inflection: structures and developments of continental West Germanic dialects. (Tübingen contributions to linguistics). Tübingen: Narr. [Link print] [Link OA]

Schäfer, Lea (2019): Hessian Yiddish. Sources on the language of the Jews in central Hesse. (Jewish culture). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2017): Linguistic imitation. Yiddish in German-language literature (18-20th century). (Language Variation). Berlin: Language Science Press. PDF

Grübl, Klaus & Huber, Judith & Pickl, Simon & Schäfer, Lea & Schiegg, Markus (ed.): "Advances in Historical Linguistics" Language Science Press. Link

Schäfer, Lea & Aptroot, Marion (ed.) (2022): Special Issue "Yiddish" Journal of Germanic Linguistics (34.2). Link

Jacobs, Neil & Schäfer, Lea (ed.) (2023): Special Issue "Imitating Jewish Speech" Journal of Jewish Languages. 11.2 Link

Ellsäßer, Sophie & Moser, Ann-Marie & Schäfer, Lea (ed.) (2023): Special collection "Towards a comparative historical dialectology" In: Journal of Historical Syntax. Vol. 7, No. 5. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2022): Transliterations and mappings of LCAAJ field notes. (Columbia Academic Commons) link [Link to the web view of the maps].

Fleischer, Jürg & Schäfer, Lea & Simeon, Ute (2013): Online database on "Sources on Western Yiddish in the (long) 19th century". Link

Schäfer, Lea (2015): "Kartierungen zum Westjiddischen (KWJ)". Link

Schäfer, Lea (2023): "Open data in Yiddish dialectology". In: Language Traces: Reports from the German Language Atlas 3(2). Link 

Schäfer, Lea (2022): "Sprachspürli: How (un)conscious are dialect stereotypes?". In: Language traces: Reports from the German Language Atlas 2(8). Link

Schäfer, Lea (2013): "What does it take to be a Jew? Linguistic imitations in literature and film." In: literaturkritik.de, No. 6, June 2013. Link

Schäfer, Lea (2013): Miszelle zum Dissertationsprojekt Literaturjiddisch. As an apocrypha to Matthias N. Lorenz' essay Gwald geschrign! In: literaturkritik.de, no. 6, June 2013 [fn 16].

Review of Alexander Beider (2015): "Origins of Yiddish Dialects" Oxford: Oxford University Press. 648 pp. (Oxford Linguistics). In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics (84) 2017, issue 1.

Review of Jehuda Leopold Frank (2021): "Loschen Hakodesch לשון הקודש Jüdisch-deutsche Ausdrücke, Sprichwörter und Redensarten der Nassauischen Landsjuden", 4th ed. newly edited by Markus Streb and Joël Ben-Yehoshua, self-published. In: Jiddistik Mitteilungen (66), 22-25.

With the lingulels "Kill All Phoneticians" In: Speculative Grammarian 3/2014. Link