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Sprachwandel und Sprachmischung im Jiddischen. By Eckhard Eggers. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 494. Paper. DM 118.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Neil G. Jacobs
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University

Extract

In this book, Eggers weighs in on debates over the nature and origins of Yiddish from the perspectives of general contact linguistics and German and Slavic historical linguistics and philology. The book attempts much, and indeed makes contributions. At the same time, however, there are numerous and pervasive shortcomings and mistakes which seriously undermine any book which undertakes the tasks that this one sets for itself.

Type
REVIEW
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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