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Yiddish as a Mixed Language: Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome

Yiddish as a Mixed Language: Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome

Geller, Ewa
Gajek, Michal
Reibach, Agata

Hardcover

Etymology

ISBN10: 9004423974
ISBN13: 9789004423978
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 17 2022
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 the Slavic languages 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.

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