Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish : : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect / / Paul Wexler.

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• VerfasserIn: Wexler, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 136
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (713 p.)
• Other title: I-VIII --; Abbreviations and symbols --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The relexification hypothesis in Yiddish --; Chapter 2 Approaches to the study of Yiddish and other Jewish languages --; Chapter 3 Criteria for selecting German and Hebrew-Aramaic and for retaining Slavic elements in Yiddish --; Chapter 4 Evidence for the two-tiered relexification hypothesis in Yiddish: From Upper Sorbian to German and from Kiev-Polessian to Yiddish --; Chapter 5 Future challenges --; References --; Index of names --; Index of examples --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110898736; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110898736
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Wexler.

The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.