Middle Western Karaim
A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the pre-19th-Century Karaim Interpretations of Hebrew piyyutim
Published on 1. May 2020
Book
Hardback
814 pages
978-90-04-41422-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th-19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological peculiarities are presented in juxtaposition to Modern Western Karaim data.
The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (149 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.
The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (149 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1297 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41422-8 (9789004414228)
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Michal Nemeth, Ph.D. (2011), Jagiellonian University, is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics and Translation Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and a European Research Council grantee. He holds a Ph.D. and a habilitation degree in Linguistics, and has authored over sixty works devoted to Turkic and Hungarian historical-linguistics.