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Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

Southern, Mark

Hardcover

YiddishLinguisticsGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0275980871
ISBN13: 9780275980870
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Aug 1 2004
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume examines relationships between native languages and Yiddish. It highlights the historical and sociolinguistic development of Turkic, Iranian, South Asian, Slavic, Greek, Balkan, Judezmo, Armenian, Georgian, and Basque languages. One of the main focuses is on the adopted post-medieval and pre-modern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi homelands of Eastern Europe.

The book emphasizes the role of ludic or playful modifications of a language's structures at the colloquial level as sources of linguistic change. And, it goes further to say that expressive language, linguistic iconicity, and etymological analysis can all complement and enrich each other.

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