Lessons from Judezmo about the Balkan Sprachbund and contact linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor A Friedman (0000-0003-1872-8959, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Brian D Joseph (0000-0002-5963-9322, The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 226 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0073 |
| OpenAlex | W2327157734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Kristian Sandfeld explicitly excluded Judezmo from consideration in the second footnote to his classic (1930 [1926]) work Linguistique balkanique, which laid the groundwork for Balkan linguistics as a discipline offering an empirical basis for Trubetzkoy's theory of the Sprachbund. To this day, Judezmo still receives relatively little attention from Balkanists. Nevertheless, the language offers some particularly important insights into the Balkan Sprachbund. As an Ibero-Romance language sufficiently different from contemporary forms of Spanish to be considered separate and distinct, it represents a second sub-branch of Romance found within the Balkans. Judezmo has importance for Balkan linguistics owing to its relatively late arrival in the Balkans, when compared to the other convergent languages, and to the relative social isolation of Judezmo-speaking Jewish communities in the region. Importantly, there are features on which Balkan Judezmo converges with other Balkan languages, but others on which it does not. There are also Judezmo dialects outside the Balkans, and so, in conjunction with comparisons to other Ibero-Romance languages and dialects, Judezmo provides a control for distinguishing convergence from coincidence. In this article, we develop these observations and draw conclusions about the nature of language contact in the Balkans involving Judezmo-speaking Sephardim, as well as that involving the other languages, by contrast
Art · Historical linguistics · Language contact · Linguistics · Literature · Romance · Romance languages · Sociology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy
Introduction
Lexical Elements of Slavic Origin in Judezmo on South Slavic Territory, 16–19th Centuries
Language mixing in Palasa
Language Contact
El judeo-español en contacto. Préstamos e interferencias como señal de vivacidad
Mother tongue in Serbia
Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans – the Contrasting but Revealing Positions of the Danubian Romance Languages and Judezmo
The Contact Hypothesis Revised
Convergence by Shared Ancestry in Romance
In and Around the Balkans
One Decade of the Journal of Language Contact
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |