Anna Verschik

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna Verschik is involved.

Book series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057

Articles

Branets, Anna, Daria Bahtina and Anna Verschik 2020 Mediated receptive multilingualism: Estonian-Russian-Ukrainian case study Mental representations in receptive multilingualism, Holmes, Bonnie C. and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 380–411 | Article

This article introduces and defines the concept of mediated receptive multilingualism as a mode of multilingual communication which eases understanding between typologically distant languages through the medium of a language closely related to the target. In an experimental setting, Estonians… read more

Verschik, Anna 2003 An outsider’s support of Yiddishism in the Baltic States: The case of Paul Ariste Language Problems and Language Planning 27:2, pp. 115–136 | Article

The struggle between Yiddishism and Hebraism in the interwar Baltic states still awaits systematic investigation and requires the use of sources in many languages. Paul Ariste (1905–1990), a famous Estonian linguist and polyglot, learned Yiddish as a young man and remained fascinated with the… read more