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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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