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Code-Switching in Judaeo-Arabic Documents from the Cairo Geniza
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Wagner, Esther-Miriam; Connolly, Magdalen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This paper investigates code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Legal documents regularly show a macaronic style of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, while in letters code-switching from Judaeo-Arabic to Hebrew is tied in with…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semitic Languages, Medieval Literature, Written Language