Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect
Main description: 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)...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin
De Gruyter
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Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Main description: 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. Biographical note: Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 713 S.) 155 x 230 mm |
ISBN: | 9783110172584 |