TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geller,Ewa
AU  - Reibach,Agata
AU  - Gajek,Michał
TI  - Yiddish as a Mixed Language: Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome 
T2  - Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language
SN  - 9789004525214
AV  - BM71 
U1  - 305.8924 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Afro-Asiatic Languages
KW  - Jewish History & Culture
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Languages and Linguistics
KW  - Literature & Linguistics
KW  - Multilingualism & Language Contact
KW  - Slavic and Eurasian Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004525214
ER  -