Ewa Geller, Michal Gajek, Agata Reibach

Gebundenes Buch

Yiddish as a Mixed Language

Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome

Beschreibung

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.

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