Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

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Walter de Gruyter, 01.06.2011 - 724 Seiten

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Inhalt

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 The Relexification Hypothesis in Yiddish
9
Chapter 2 Approaches to the study of Yiddish and other Jewish languages
63
Chapter 3 Criteria for selecting German and HebrewAramaic and for retaining Slavic elements in Yiddish
79
31 Component blending in Yiddish
116
32 The status of synonyms in Yiddish
131
33 Constructing an etymological dictionary for a relexified language
137
From Upper Sorbian to German and from KievPolessian to Yiddish
145
44 The status of individual German morphemes and semantically related sets in Yiddish
349
45 Slavic gender and markers of plural and dual in Yiddish
391
46 Unrelexified Upper Sorbian and KievPolessian elements in Yiddish
488
47 The Khazar component in the language and ethnogenesis of the Ashkenazic Jews
513
Chapter 5 Future challenges
543
References
555
Index of names
631
Index of examples
638

41 Sixteen observations about the relexification hypothesis in Yiddish
148
42 German morphemes and morpheme sets fully accepted by Yiddish
176
43 German morpheme sets blocked fully or in part in Yiddish by the Slavic substrata
181

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Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

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