The variation of the two past tense auxiliaries (HAVE and BE) is a well-studied phenomenon in European languages, especially in the West Germanic varieties. So far, however, the situation in Eastern Yiddish has not been examined. This paper focuses on auxiliary selection in these Yiddish dialects based on data from the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry, which were collected in the 1960s. Like most of the current works on this topic, the following analysis uses and discusses Sorace’s (1993, 2000) Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy, which allows to examine the Yiddish structures in light of historical and diatopic evidence from other Germanic varieties, particularly German and Dutch. The main focus is on intransitive verbs that show a high degree of variation—state verbs, controlled and uncontrolled motional process verbs, and change-of-state verbs. However, the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy also has weaknesses, as is demonstrated in the following.*

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意第绪语方言的辅助选择

两个过去式助动词（HAVE 和 BE）的变体在欧洲语言中是一个被充分研究过的现象，尤其是在西日耳曼变体中。然而，到目前为止，东意第绪语的情况还没有得到检验。本文重点研究这些意第绪语方言中的辅助选择德系犹太人语言文化档案馆，收集于 1960 年代。与当前关于该主题的大多数作品一样，以下分析使用并讨论了 Sorace（1993 年，2000 年）的辅助选择层次结构，它允许根据其他日耳曼变体（尤其是德语和荷兰语）的历史和双位证据来检查意第绪语结构。主要关注显示高度变化的不及物动词——状态动词、受控和不受控的运动过程动词以及状态变化动词。然而，辅助选择层次结构也有弱点，如下所示。*