Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect
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Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect
（Trends in linguistics, Studies and monographs ; 136）
Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-630) and indexes
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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.
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