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

✍ Scribed by Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, Agata Reibach

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language, 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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