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Back to topTwo-tiered Relexification in Yiddish (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] #136) (Hardcover)
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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.
About the Author
Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.