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Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish

By Paul Wexler

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2002
ISBN
3110172585, 9783110172584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (28960001 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs , 136
Edition
Reprint 2011 ed.
Pages
728\729
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-01-31 16:56:33
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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.

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