Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish

by Paul Wexler

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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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3110172585

ISBN13:9783110172584

Release Date:May 2002

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:724 Pages

Weight:2.62 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary

Related Subjects

Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts

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