Yiddish as a mixed language : Yiddish-Slavic language contact and its linguistic outcome

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Full Title:: Yiddish as a mixed language : Yiddish-Slavic language contact and its linguistic outcome / by Ewa Geller, Michał Gajek, Agata Reibach ; with a contribution by Anna Pilarski
Series Titles:: Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3
Brill Studies in language contact and the dynamics of language ; v. 3.

Additional Author/Creators:: Gajek, Michał, author
Reibach, Agata, author
Pilarski, Anna, 1971-, author

Genre:: Electronic books
Subjects:: Yiddish language--Foreign elements--Slavic
Yiddish language--Foreign elements--Polish
Slavic languages--Influence on Yiddish
Polish language--Influence on Yiddish
Languages in contact

Summary:: 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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.