Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish [Elektronisk resurs] Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect / by Paul Wexler.

• Biographical note: Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. 
• Main description: 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. 

Ämnesord

Relexification (Linguistics)  (LCSH)

Khazars  -- History (LCSH)

Ukrainian language  -- 1300-1700 -- Dialects -- Pripet Marshes (Belarus and Ukraine) (LCSH)

Ukrainian language  -- 1300-1700 -- Influence on Yiddish (LCSH)

Upper Sorbian language  -- Influence on Yiddish (LCSH)

Yiddish language  -- Lexicology, Historical (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PJ5118 (LCC)

439/.13028 (DDC)

LAN009000 (BISAC)

Ffo (kssb/8 (machine generated))