UID:
almahu_9949703473302882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004525214
,
9789004423978
Serie:
Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language ; 3
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Yiddish as a Mixed Language : Yiddish Slavic Language Contact and its Linguistic Outcome. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. ISBN 9789004423978
Sprache:
Englisch
