ISBN:
9789004419377
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 789 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Languages of Asia volume 22
Series Statement:
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004400689
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Németh, Michał, - 1980- Middle Western Karaim
Keywords:
Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew Translations into Karaim
;
Karaim language History
;
Karaim language Texts
;
Hebräisch
;
Pijut
;
Karäer
Abstract:
1. Introduction -- 2. Authors and the Copyists of the peshatim Edited -- 3. Linguistic Description -- 4. Introduction to the peshatim -- The peshatim: Text and Translation -- Lexicographical Addenda -- Hebrew Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Facsimiles.
Abstract:
"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 (147 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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004419377
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