Contagious Couplings
Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases
Published on 1. August 2004
Book
Hardback
374 pages
978-0-275-98087-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines relationships between native languages and Yiddish. It highlights the historical and sociolinguistic development of Turkic, Iranian, South Asian, Slavic, Greek, Balkan, Judezmo, Armenian, Georgian, and Basque languages. One of the main focuses is on the adopted post-medieval and pre-modern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi homelands of Eastern Europe.
The book emphasizes the role of ludic or playful modifications of a language's structures at the colloquial level as sources of linguistic change. And, it goes further to say that expressive language, linguistic iconicity, and etymological analysis can all complement and enrich each other.
The book emphasizes the role of ludic or playful modifications of a language's structures at the colloquial level as sources of linguistic change. And, it goes further to say that expressive language, linguistic iconicity, and etymological analysis can all complement and enrich each other.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
692 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-98087-0 (9780275980870)
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MARK R. V. SOUTHERN teaches at Middlebury College in the Department of German and the Program in Classical Studies. He specializes in historical and Indo-European linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics, German and the Germanic languages, Greek and Latin linguistics, the pre-Islamic Middle East, and Sanskrit. He is a contributor to Archaeology, Language, and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity Greenwood Publishing Group (2001).
Content
Prefatory Note: Definitions Introduction Binomial Dismissive Pairs in Yiddish Expressive Function: Definitions and Range Turkic/Altaic Evidence: Productive M-Initial Echo-Building Iranian Evidence: Modern Persian, Golden-Age Persian, Ossetic Evidence of Turkish-Influenced Judezmo (Judeo-Spanish) Slavic and Balkan Evidence South Asian Evidence Basque Evidence: A Typological Parallel Labial-Initial Disparaging/Collective Echo Pairs and Contact Diffusion From M- to Shm- 1: Expressive or Phonologically Marked Sibilant Boundary-Demarcators in Germanic From M- to Shm- 2: Syntactically Tight Pairs in Germanic Conclusion: A Contact-Driven Yiddish Innovation Appendix: "Polycausal" Reinforcement: Four Comparative Case Studies Endnotes References Abstract Tables