ISBN:
9789004423978
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 286 Seiten
,
Diagramme
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Brill studies in language contact and the dynamics of language volume 3
Series Statement:
Brill studies in language contact and the dynamics of language
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Geller, Ewa Yiddish as a mixed language
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Geller, Ewa, 1955 - Yiddish as a mixed language
DDC:
439/.1
Keywords:
Yiddish language Foreign elements
;
Slavic
;
Yiddish language Foreign elements
;
Polish
;
Slavic languages Influence on Yiddish
;
Polish language Influence on Yiddish
;
Languages in contact
;
Jiddisch
;
Sprachkontakt
;
Slawische Sprachen
;
Polnisch
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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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