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Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases Mark Southern
Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases
Mark Southern
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.
374 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 1, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780275980870 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 374 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 666 g |
| Language | English |