| Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish Reprint 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Wexler, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110172585 ISBN-13: 9783110172584 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Yiddish - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative |
| Dewey: 439.130 |
| LCCN: 2002016511 |
| Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] |
| Physical Information: 1.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.62 lbs) 724 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |