Jewish and non-Jewish creators of "Jewish" languages
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: with special attention to judaized Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (modern Hebrew/ Yiddish), Spanish, and Karaite, and Semitic Hebrew/ Ladino ; a collection of reprinted articles from across four decades with a reassessment
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Paul Wexler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Wiesbaden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Harrassowitz Verlag
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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liv, 904 p.
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: ill.
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;25 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Collection of texts published previously.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 798-893) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. A retrospective glance at 1964-2003 -1.1. Non-Jews as the creators of all relexified and some non-relexified "Jewish" languages - 1.2 Relexification and the case of Yiddish and its four offspring: Medieval Ashkenazic and Modern Hebrew, German Rotwelsch and Esperanto - I. Theoretical approaches, 1 Jewish interlinguistics: facts and conceptual framework - 2. Jewish linguistics: 1981-1991-2001 - 3 Unspoken "languages" and the issue of genetic classification: the case of Hebrew [with Julia Horvath] - II. Comparative, 4. The term 'Sabbath food,' a challenge for Jewish inter-linguistics... 5. Terms for 'synagogue' in Hebrew and Jewish languages ... III. Comparison and contacts, 6. A mirror-image comparison of languages in contact: verbal prefixes in Slavicized Yiddish and Germanized Sorbian - 7. The cartography of unspoken languages of culture and liturgy ... Arabic and Hebrew - 8. Explorations in Belarussian historical bilingual dialectology and onomastics - 9. Hebräische und aramäische Elemente in den slavischen Sprachen ... 10. The role of Yiddish in the recovery of Slavic linguistic history - 11. Exploring the distinctive features of Wandersprachen ... Romani and Jewish languages - 12. Two comments on Yiddish contacts with Indo-Iranian languages - 13. Languages in contact: ... Rotwelsch and the two "Yiddishes." - 14. Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity - IV. Judaized Arabic, 15. Notes on the Iraqi Judeo-Arabic of Eastern Asia - V. Judaized Chinese and Chinese Judaized Persian, 16. Jewish languages in Kaifeng, Henan Province, China, 1163-1933 - VI. Judaized German, 17. Ashkenazic German, 1760-1895 - VII. Colonial Judaized Greek, 18. Recovering the dialects and sociology of Judeo-Greek in non-Hellenic Europe
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VII. Judaized Ibero-Romance, 19. Ascertaining the position of Judeo Spanish within Ibero-Romance - 20. Linguistica Judeo-Lusitanica - IX. Marrano Ibero-Romance, 21. ...Classification and research tasks - X Karaite, 22. Is Karaite a Jewish language? - XI. Semitic Hebrew, 23. The role of Yiddish in reconstructing and reviving old colloquial Hebrew - 24. De-Judaicization and incipient re-Judaicization in 18th-century Portuguese Ladino - 25. Interdialectal translation as a reflection of lexical obsolescence and dialect distance: the West Yiddish Bible translation of 1679 in the Biblia pentapla, 1711 - XII. Judaized Slavic, 26. Slavic influence in the grammatical functions of three Yiddish verbal prefixes - 27. Slavicization vs. de-Slivicization in Yiddish verb derivation ... 28. The reconstruction of pre-Ashkenazic Jewish settlements in the Slavic lands in the light of linguistic sources - 29. Judeo-Slavic frontispieces of late 18th- and 19th-century books and the authentication of 'sterotyped' Judeo-Slavic speech - 30. The Slavic 'standard' of Modern Hebrew - 31. Why there may have been contacts between Slovenes and Jews before 1000 A.D. - 32. De la relexification en yiddish: Les Juifs, les Sorabes, les Khazars et la région de Kyiv-Polissia - 33. A German-Slavic bilingual unknowingly knows Yiddish and Modern Hebrew quite well ... -34. Evaluating Soviet Yiddish language policy between 1917-1950.