Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish

by Paul Wexler

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110172585
• ISBN13: 9783110172584
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 724 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary