Antwerp Yiddish in the Twenty-First Century: A Snapshot

In my talk I will outline selected phonological, inflectional, and syntactic features of 21^st century spoken Haredi Antwerp Yiddish. The data on which the talk is based were collected during fieldwork on site in 2013 and 2014. Three male speakers, aged between 25 and 35, served as consultants. Of these, only one was born and raised in Antwerp, while the other two had moved there from New York City and Jerusalem as adults. Surprisingly, apart from minor differences, all three turned out to speak the same Yiddish.