Wexler says Hebrew is a Slavic Language

[colkitto]

or maybe your Hebrew programme could do something way outside the box and 
say .....

No.

Our tradition is older

We get promoted from programme to department and take over Slavic!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Robin" <rrobin at GWU.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:59 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Wexler says Hebrew is a Slavic Language


>I am familiar with Paul Wexler's argument (summed up in English at
> http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2349.html). Wexler says that Yiddish,
> commonly thought to be Germanic (specifically a development of Middle High
> German) is in fact, relexified (by German) 10-C Slavic on two fronts:
> Sorbian in the 10thC and Ukrainian (Kiev-Polessian) several centuries 
> later.
> I'm way out of my depth in discussing the merits of that argument. But
> Wexler goes on to argue that Hebrew is relexified Yiddish. That makes 
> Hebrew
> a Slavic language. I need a reality check. Isn't that something of a
> stretch? Or can my department go to our dean and demand that the we now
> subsume Hebrew program?
>
> -Rich Robin
>
> *In the latest newcomer to SEELANGS, Modern Hebrew (which according to
> Paul Wexler is a Slavic language, cf. http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/
> yedion/03-04/syllabi/single_syllabi/06273138.html )
> *
>
> -- 
> Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
> Director Russian Language Program
> Technical Advisor, GW Language Сenter
> The George Washington University
> Washington, DC 20008
> 202-994-7081
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> 

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