Yiddish as a Mixed Language : Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome /
Geller, Ewa,
Yiddish as a Mixed Language : Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome / Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, and Agata Reibach. - 1 online resource. - Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3 . - Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Yiddish has so far been mostly described as a linear, genetic descendant of German. This volume makes a case for the mixed character of the idiom and the formative role of the Slavic component in its creation and development. 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.
9789004525214 9789004423978
10.1163/9789004525214 DOI
Afro-Asiatic Languages.
Jewish History & Culture.
Jewish Studies.
Languages and Linguistics.
Literature & Linguistics.
Multilingualism & Language Contact.
Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
BM71
305.8924
Yiddish as a Mixed Language : Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome / Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, and Agata Reibach. - 1 online resource. - Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3 . - Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Yiddish has so far been mostly described as a linear, genetic descendant of German. This volume makes a case for the mixed character of the idiom and the formative role of the Slavic component in its creation and development. 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.
9789004525214 9789004423978
10.1163/9789004525214 DOI
Afro-Asiatic Languages.
Jewish History & Culture.
Jewish Studies.
Languages and Linguistics.
Literature & Linguistics.
Multilingualism & Language Contact.
Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
BM71
305.8924