Description: Contagious Couplings : Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases, Hardcover by Southern, Mark R. V., ISBN 0275980871, ISBN-13 9780275980870, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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. Th 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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Book Title: Contagious Couplings : Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Ech
Publisher: ABC-Clio
Publication Year: 2005
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases
Type: Study Guide
Author: Mark Southern
Subject Area: Religious Sociology
Format: Hardcover
