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Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

by Mark Southern
Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

by Mark Southern

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780275980870
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/30/2005
Pages: 374
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

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).

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

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