Urban Multilingualism in East-Central Europe: The Polish Dialect of
Late-Habsburg Lviv makes the case for a two-pronged approach to
past urban multilingualism in East-Central Europe, one that
considers both historical and linguistic features. Based on
archival materials from late-Habsburg Lemberg - now Lviv - in
western Ukraine, the author examines its workings in day-to-day
life in the streets, shops and homes of the city in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The places where the
city's Polish-Ukrainian-Yiddish-German encounters took place
produced a distinct urban dialect. A variety of south-eastern
"borderland" Polish, it was subject to strong ongoing Ukrainian as
well as Yiddish and German influence. Jan Fellerer analyzes its
main morpho-syntactic features with reference to diverse written
and recorded sources of the time. This represents a departure from
many other studies that focus on the phonetics and inflectional
morphology of Slavic dialects. Fellerer argues that contact-induced
linguistic change is contingent on the historical specifics of the
contact setting. The close-knit urban community of historical Lviv
and its dialect provide a rich interdisciplinary case study.
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