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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Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect
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Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect
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Table of contents
- Abbreviations and symbols
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Relexification Hypothesis in Yiddish
- Chapter 2 Approaches to the study of Yiddish and other Jewish languages
- Chapter 3 Criteria for selecting German and Hebrew-Aramaic and for retaining Slavic elements in Yiddish
- 3.1. Component blending in Yiddish
- 3.2. The status of synonyms in Yiddish
- 3.3. Constructing an etymological dictionary for a relexified language
- Chapter 4 Evidence for the two-tiered relexification hypothesis in Yiddish: From Upper Sorbian to German and from Kiev-Polessian to Yiddish
- 4.1. Sixteen observations about the relexification hypothesis in Yiddish
- 4.2. German morphemes and morpheme sets fully accepted by Yiddish
- 4.3. German morpheme sets blocked fully or in part in Yiddish by the Slavic substrata
- 4.4. The status of individual German morphemes and semantically related sets in Yiddish
- 4.5. Slavic gender and markers of plural and dual in Yiddish
- 4.6. Unrelexified Upper Sorbian and Kiev-Polessian elements in Yiddish
- 4.7. The Khazar component in the language and ethnogenesis of the Ashkenazic Jews
- Chapter 5 Future challenges
- References
- Index of names
- Index of examples
- Index of subjects
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