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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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 Giron Negron); 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 Universitaet Berlin, is Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at Georg-August University Goettingen. 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 Jose Angel 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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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 Espanol Medieval Electronico (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 Fernandez Martin
5 Linguistic Variation in the Sephardic Community of Pisa (17th Century)
?Jose Javier Rodriguez 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 Hernandez Socas and Encarnacion 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
?Jose Ignacio Hualde and Aldina Quintana
10 Vocalic Alternations in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish: A Pilot Study on Semi-Spontaneous Speech Data
?Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Gruenke and Aldina Quintana
11 Lexical Availability in Contemporary Judeo-Spanish
?Cristobal Jose Alvarez Lopez
12 Spanish and Judeo-Spanish Today: A Glottopolitical Perspective
?Yvette Buerki
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