Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
| Author | : Paul Wexler |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 729 |
| Release | : 2011-06-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783110898736 |
| ISBN-13 | : 311089873X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish by : Paul Wexler
Download or read book Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish written by Paul Wexler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
