Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

Abbreviations and symbols\nIntroduction\nChapter 1 The Relexification Hypothesis in Yiddish\nChapter 2 Approaches to the study of Yiddish and other Jewish languages\nChapter 3 Criteria for selecting German and Hebrew-Aramaic and for retaining Slavic elements in Yiddish\n3.1. Component blending in Yiddish\n3.2. The status of synonyms in Yiddish\n3.3. Constructing an etymological dictionary for a relexified language\nChapter 4 Evidence for the two-tiered relexification hypothesis in Yiddish: From Upper Sorbian to German and from Kiev-Polessian to Yiddish\n4.1. Sixteen observations about the relexification hypothesis in Yiddish\n4.2. German morphemes and morpheme sets fully accepted by Yiddish\n4.3. German morpheme sets blocked fully or in part in Yiddish by the Slavic substrata\n4.4. The status of individual German morphemes and semantically related sets in Yiddish\n4.5. Slavic gender and markers of plural and dual in Yiddish\n4.6. Unrelexified Upper Sorbian and Kiev-Polessian elements in Yiddish\n4.7. The Khazar component in the language and ethnogenesis of the Ashkenazic Jews\nChapter 5 Future challenges\nReferences\nIndex of names\nIndex of examples\nIndex of subjects