Anna Verschik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Verschik plays a role.
Book series
Articles
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
2020 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
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
2003 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