Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 286 Seiten)
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Illustration, Diagramme
ISBN:
9789004525214
Series Statement:
Brill studies in language contact and the dynamics of language volume 3
Content:
"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"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004423978
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geller, Ewa, 1955 - Yiddish as a mixed language Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004423978
Language:
English
Keywords:
Slawische Sprachen
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Sprachkontakt
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Jiddisch
DOI:
10.1163/9789004525214
Author information:
Pilarski, Anna 1971-
Author information:
Geller, Ewa 1955-
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