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Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect / by Paul Wexler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wexler, Paul.
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 136
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yiddish language--Lexicology, Historical.
- Yiddish language.
- Relexification (Linguistics).
- Upper Sorbian language--Influence on Yiddish.
- Upper Sorbian language.
- Ukrainian language--1300-1700--Influence on Yiddish.
- Ukrainian language.
- Ukrainian language--1300-1700--Dialects--Pripet Marshes (Belarus and Ukraine).
- Khazars--History.
- Khazars.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (728 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-630) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110898736
- 311089873X
- OCLC:
- 979628526
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