Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
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- ISBN 9783110172584
- Weight: 1340g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 17 May 2002
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
