The Slavic Languages as a Factor of Yiddish Hybridization

This article focuses on the German-Slavic interaction in the Yiddish verb derivation that led to the formation of a hybrid language. The derivation is significant for hybridization, including that of Yiddish on the Slavic adstratum basis, because derivation combines vocabulary, semantics and grammar, deals with grammatical and semantic categories. The Slavic adstratum in Yiddish finds expression in systemic copies: in a combination of Slavic content with the German form that led to the homonymization of some prefixes, in particular, in the expression of the Slavic aspect by the Yiddish verbs, in the Slavic conceptualization of situation and in the Slavic situateme of the Yiddish prefixed verbs. Hybridization is development of a Language L when: 1) the Language L is the mother tongue of its secondary speakers being another ethnos than its native speakers; 2) secondary speakers speak this Language L being in contact with Languages C that these speakers also use under polylingualism or polyglottism conditions; 3) in the course of time the contact Languages C have influence and then a systemic impact upon the mother Language L; 4) it results in a hybrid Language H with the source Language L that crosses with the adstratum systemic formations of different levels of the Languages C.

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