Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish : : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (713 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |