ISBN:
9789004525214
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 286 Seiten)
,
Illustration, Diagramme
Erscheinungsjahr:
2022
Serie:
Brill studies in language contact and the dynamics of language volume 3
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Geller, Ewa, 1955 - Yiddish as a mixed language
Schlagwort(e):
Yiddish language Foreign elements
;
Slavic
;
Yiddish language Foreign elements
;
Polish
;
Slavic languages Influence on Yiddish
;
Polish language Influence on Yiddish
;
Languages in contact
;
Afro-Asiatic Languages
;
Jewish History & Culture
;
Jewish Studies
;
Languages and Linguistics
;
Literature & Linguistics
;
Multilingualism & Language Contact
;
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
;
Slawische Sprachen
;
Sprachkontakt
;
Jiddisch
Kurzfassung:
"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"--
DOI:
10.1163/9789004525214
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