Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect
Reprint 2011
by
Paul Wexler
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3110172585
ISBN-13
9783110172584
Edition
Reprint 2011
Publisher
De Gruyter
Imprint
De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 17th, 2002
Print length
724 Pages
Weight
1,340 grams
Product Classification:
Historical & comparative linguisticsHistorical and comparative linguistics
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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.
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.
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