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Publication details [#29325]

Fishman, Joshua. 1991. Yiddish: Turning to life. John Benjamins. 522 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study of Yiddish comprises five sections that respectively deal with: the relationship between Yiddish and Hebrew; Yiddish in America; corpus planning and change; status planning; the Tshernovits conference of 1908; and the 'lively' state of the language at present.

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