Claiming that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relaxified their language to High German between the 9th and 12th centuries, this book asserts that by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relaxified 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 componnet in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
De Gruyter
ISBN-13
9783110172584
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96176647
Product Key Features
Book Title
Two-Tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect
Author
Paul Wexler
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
724 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
1340g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul Wexler
Series Title
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]