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Date: 08-Nov-2005
From: Melissa Nardine < Melissa.Nardine at greenwood.com >
Subject: Contagious Couplings: Southern 

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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:26:39
From: Melissa Nardine < Melissa.Nardine at greenwood.com >
Subject: Contagious Couplings: Southern 

Title: Contagious Couplings 
Subtitle: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
	   http://www.greenwood.com/

Book URL: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C8087.aspx 

Author: Mark R. V. Southern, Middlebury College

Electronic: ISBN: 0313068445 Pages: 374 Price: U.S. $ 109.95
Hardback: ISBN: 0275980871 Pages: 374 Price: U.S. $ 99.95

Abstract:

Contagious Couplings, by Mark R. V. Southern, explores language contact in
the light of Uriel Weinreich's idea that expressives are an easy avenue for
contact-driven transmission. It examines the nature of colloquial-level
linguistic relationships in bilingual or semi-bilingual/coterritorial
speech communities. The origins of Yiddish shm- echo-pairs can be traced in
Turkic labial-initial grammatical particles (negative mV- and interrogative
mV-). The study considers Turkic m- collective echo-pairs' diffusion south
into Iranian (and then South Asian languages), and west into Slavic and the
Balkans. East Slavic is the final springboard for these m- echo-pairs'
passage into Eastern Yiddish in the pre-modern Ashkenazi homelands of
Eastern Europe, where they then get reshaped as shm- and reconfigured as
derogatory twins, helped by Germanic formulaic pairs and by
Yiddish-internal convergence with taboo or off-color shm- words. The
investigation highlights a series of sociolinguistic and historical
interactions between Turkic languages and their neighbors: Iranian, Slavic,
Greek and Balkan, Judezmo, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic. The book emphasizes
the role of 'meta-grammatical' features and of ludic or playful colloquial
usage as a source of linguistic transfer. Analysis of expressive language
and iconicity can complement and enrich rigorous linguistic inquiry. The
study takes its cue especially from Brian Joseph's pioneering and seminal
work on expressives and contact. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Balkan Gagauz Turkish (bgx)
                     Ladino (lad)
                     Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)

Language Family(ies): Armenian
                      Basque 
                      Dravidian 
                      Georgian 
                      Germanic 
                      Greek subgroup 
                      Indo-Aryan 
                      Iranian 
                      Slavic Subgroup 
                      Turkic 

Written In: English  (eng)

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