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At the intersection of Jewish studies and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book approach the topic of the languages of Sephardic Jews from different perspectives, spanning chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on diverse sources – from medical glossaries to inquisition archives, from rabbinic responsa to recordings of today's speakers – the scholars collaborating on this project have endeavoured to reconstruct fragments of a complex and elusive linguistic reality, which over the centuries has been shaped by the historical experience of its speakers. An innovative collection of rigorously conducted synchronic and diachronic studies that contributes to expanding our knowledge and opening new perspectives on crucial issues, such as the effects of contact on the linguistic structures, the possibility of a norm for polycentric languages, the relationship between the lexicon of a language and the vitality of its speech community.

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Author:   Laura Minervini ,  Frank Savelsberg
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   41
Weight:   0.732kg
ISBN:  

9789004685024

ISBN 10:   9004685022
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   09 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Laura Minervini and Frank Savelsberg Part 1 Languages and Language Usage of the Jews in Medieval Iberia 1 Old Castilian Words in Hebrew Characters Transmitted in Medico-Botanical Glossaries and Synonym Lists  Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink 2 The Presence of the Hebrew Language and Literature in Inquisitorial Files against Judaizers from Medinaceli (Soria)  Manuel Nevot Navarro 3 Historical Lexicography of Judeo-Spanish and the Diccionario del Español Medieval Electrónico (DEMel)  Rafael D. Arnold Part 2 The Emergence of a New Language—Variation, Koineization, and Language Contact 4 Forms of Address at the Dawn of Judeo-Spanish  Elisabeth Fernández Martín 5 Linguistic Variation in the Sephardic Community of Pisa (17th Century)  José Javier Rodríguez Toro 6 Loke in Judeo-Spanish  Olga Kellert 7 Language Contact and the Development of Judeo-Spanish Syntax  Susann Fischer 8 On the Influence of German on Judeo-Spanish  Carsten Sinner, Elia Hernández Socas and Encarnación Tabares-Plasencia Part 3 Linguistic Features and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Present-Day Judeo-Spanish 9 Intonational Patterns in the Last Generation of Native Judeo-Spanish Speakers Born in Turkey: A Preliminary Study  José Ignacio Hualde and Aldina Quintana 10 Vocalic Alternations in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish: A Pilot Study on Semi-Spontaneous Speech Data  Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke and Aldina Quintana 11 Lexical Availability in Contemporary Judeo-Spanish  Cristóbal José Álvarez López 12 Spanish and Judeo-Spanish Today: A Glottopolitical Perspective  Yvette Bürki Index

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Laura Minervini, PhD (1991), is Professor of Romance Philology and Linguistics in the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. She has published extensively on Judeo-Romance languages and linguistic contact in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. She has edited a corpus of Castilian and Aragonese texts in Hebrew script (Testi giudeospagnoli medievali, 1992) and a narrative poem on the biblical story of Joseph (Las coplas de Yosef, 2006, with Luis Girón Negrón); she has written the entries on Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, and Judeo-Occitan for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2021). Frank Savelsberg, Ph.D. (2008) at Freie Universität Berlin, is Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at Georg-August University Göttingen. He finished his studies of Romance and German Philology and Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne with a Master thesis about the role of Jewish mysticism in the work of the Galician author José Ángel Valente. His Ph.D.-thesis was dedicated to the satirical work of Francisco de Quevedo. One of his main research interests is the medico-botanical terminology of Old Romance in Hebrew script (Medical synonym lists of Medieval Provence, 2011, with Gerrit Bos, Martina Hussein, and Guido Mensching) and he is one of the editors of the Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology (2023, with Guido Mensching).

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