Two-tiered relexification in yiddish: jews, sorbs, khazars, and the kiev-polessian dialect
Auteur :
Wexler, Paul
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110172584
Date de publication :
17 mai 2002
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
1340 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
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.