Yiddish as a Mixed Language

Preface

List of Illustrations and Tables

Abbreviations

1 Max Weinreich and Slavic Component of Yiddish

 Michał Gajek

 1 Introduction

 2 Max Weinreich on Slavic-Yiddish Language Contact—Attempts at Revision

 3 Slavic Elements in Subsystems of Yiddish

 4 Discussion and Conclusions

2 Yiddish in the Framework of the Mixed Language Debate

 Ewa Geller and Michał Gajek

 1 Introduction

 2 Defining Terminology

 3 Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact

 4 Language Shift in Inception of Eastern Yiddish

 5 Borrowing in Development of Eastern Yiddish

 6 Yiddish as Mixed Language

 7 Conclusions

3 Role of Slavic Matter Borrowings in New Pattern Grammaticalization

 Ewa Geller

 1 Introduction

 2 Theoretical Framework

 3 Method

 4 Analysis and Its Results

 5 Conclusions

4 De-Construction of German-Type Compounds

 Agata Reibach

 1 Introduction

 2 Methods

 3 Compound Types in Yiddish

 4 Compounds in Yiddish Component Languages

 5 Results

 6 Conclusions

5 Core Vocabulary Borrowability Restrictions: Case of Semantic Field ‘Body’

 Agata Reibach

 1 Introduction

 2 Methods

 3 Results

 4 Discussion and Desiderata

 Appendix

6 Convergence of Syntactic Structures of Yiddish and Polish Direct Interrogative Sentences: Remarks on Parametric Structure of CP and wh-Movement

 Anna Pilarski

 1 Introduction

 2 Methods

 3 Analysis

 4 Results

 5 Conclusions

7 Yiddish as Donor Language for Polish

 Michał Gajek

 1 Introduction

 2 Methodological Issues

 3 Yiddish Loanwords in Polish—Integration and Assimilation

 4 Yiddishisms in Polish Vocabulary as Example of Low-Variety Influence

 5 Conclusions and Desiderata

References

Index