Paul Wexler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Wexler is involved.

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Wexler, Paul 2006 The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages: (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience) Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 183–199 | Chapter

Yiddish is generally regarded as a form of High German that underwent extreme Slavicization over some seven centuries. I believe, in contrast, that Yiddish is a mixed Slavic language that was created by two separate processes of relexification between the 9th–15th centuries: from Upper Sorbian and… read more

Wexler, Paul 1995 Semantic and formal parameters of derived Verbs (with a special reference to Chinese) Tendances Récentes en Linguistique Française et Générale: Volume dédié à David Gaatone, Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava et Lucien Kupferman (dir.), pp. 391–398 | Article

Wexler, Paul 1993 Jewish historical linguistics: 1981–1991–2001 Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 343–362 | Article

Wexler, Paul 1982 Review of Comrie & Stone (1978): The Russian Language since the Revolution & Comrie (1981): The Languages of the Soviet Union Language Problems and Language Planning 6:2, pp. 166–175 | Review

Wexler, Paul 1981 Review of Magocsi (1978): The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus’ 1848–1948 Language Problems and Language Planning 5:2, pp. 200–204 | Review