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Contagious Couplings Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

Mark Southern

Book Code: C8087

ISBN: 0-275-98087-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98087-0

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374 pages, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/30/2005

List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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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.

Table of Contents:

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

LC Card Number: 2003042076

LCC Class: PJ5118

Dewey Class: 439


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