Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

About the author

Guido Mensching and Frank Savelsberg, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Product details

• Assisted by: Guid Mensching (Editor), Guido Mensching (Editor), Savelsberg (Editor), Savelsberg (Editor), Frank Savelsberg (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2018
• EAN: 9783110302110
• ISBN: 978-3-11-030211-0
• No. of pages: 582
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 36 mm x 244 mm
• Weight: 1098 g
• Illustrations: 10 b/w and 7 col. ill., 125 b/w tbl.
• Series: Manuals of Romance Linguistics; Manuals of Romance Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies