Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian DialectWalter de Gruyter, 01.06.2011 - 724 Seiten TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. |
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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 |
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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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