Wexler says Hebrew is a Slavic Language
colkitto
colkitto at ROGERS.COM
Mon Nov 19 15:16:36 UTC 2007
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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