Ewa Geller, Michal Gajek, Agata Reibach

Gebundenes Buch

Yiddish as a Mixed Language

Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome

Beschreibung

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. The volume is copiously illustrated with examples from the vernacular language. With a contribution of Anna Pilarski, University of Szczecin.

Autor

Ewa Geller is full professor of Linguistics at the Department of German Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on the origins and structure of Eastern Yiddish. She is the author of Warschauer Jiddisch and other significant works in the field. Michal Gajek obtained his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, defending a dissertation entitled Mechanisms of the Integration of Yiddish Loanwords in Polish from the Point of View of Contact Linguistics. His primary fields of work are language contact, diachronic linguistics, digital lexicography. Agata Reibach obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, defending a dissertation entitled Der jidiser snajder: Jewish-Polish Linguistic Contact on Example of 'Tailoring' Semantic Field in Yiddish. Her research interests focus on Yiddish lexicology, semantics and sociolects from a contact-linguistic perspective. She is a translator and teacher of Yiddish.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9789004423978
• ISBN-10: 9004423974
• Artikelnr.: 64202615