Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish
| Titel: | Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect / Paul Wexler |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002 |
| Umfang: | XI, 713 Seiten ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 136 |
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| ISBN: | 3110172585 |
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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.
