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

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Walter de Gruyter, 2002 - 713 Seiten

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The Relexification Hypothesis in Yiddish
9
Approaches to the study of Yiddish
63
Criteria for selecting German and Hebrew
79
Evidence for the twotiered relexification
145
semantically related sets in Yiddish
349
Yiddish
391
elements in Yiddish
488
Future challenges
543
Index of names
631
Index of subjects
692
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Autoren-Profil (2002)

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

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