Yiddish as a mixed language: Yiddish-Slavic language contact and its linguistic outcome
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Main Authors: Geller, Ewa 1955- (Author), Gajek, Michał (Author), Reibach, Agata (Author), Pilarski, Anna 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Series:Brill studies in language contact and the dynamics of language volume 3
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525214
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525214
https://brill.com/view/title/56956
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525214
Abstract:"Yiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in contact linguistics allow for a new approach, placing the idiom within the mixed language spectrum, with the Slavic component playing a significant role. So far, the Slavic elements were studied as isolated, adstratal borrowings. This book argues that they represent a coherent system within the grammar. This suggests that it had at least as much of a constitutive role in the inception and development of Yiddish as German and Hebrew. The volume is copiously illustrated with examples from the vernacular language. With a contribution of Anna Pilarski, University of Szczecin"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 286 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004525214
DOI:10.1163/9789004525214

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