Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases

by Mark R.V. Southern

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275980871
• ISBN13: 9780275980870
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"