New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews

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 Girón Negrón); 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 Universität Berlin, is Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at Georg-August University Göttingen. 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 José Ángel 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).

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionLaura Minervini and Frank SavelsbergPart 1 Languages and Language Usage of the Jews in Medieval Iberia1 Old Castilian Words in Hebrew Characters Transmitted in Medico-Botanical Glossaries and Synonym ListsGerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink2 The Presence of the Hebrew Language and Literature in Inquisitorial Files against Judaizers from Medinaceli (Soria)Manuel Nevot Navarro3 Historical Lexicography of Judeo-Spanish and the Diccionario del Español Medieval Electrónico (DEMel)Rafael D. ArnoldPart 2 The Emergence of a New Language—Variation, Koineization, and Language Contact4 Forms of Address at the Dawn of Judeo-SpanishElisabeth Fernández Martín5 Linguistic Variation in the Sephardic Community of Pisa (17th Century)José Javier Rodríguez Toro6 Loke in Judeo-SpanishOlga Kellert7 Language Contact and the Development of Judeo-Spanish SyntaxSusann Fischer8 On the Influence of German on Judeo-SpanishCarsten Sinner, Elia Hernández Socas and Encarnación Tabares-PlasenciaPart 3 Linguistic Features and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Present-Day Judeo-Spanish9 Intonational Patterns in the Last Generation of Native Judeo-Spanish Speakers Born in Turkey: A Preliminary StudyJosé Ignacio Hualde and Aldina Quintana10 Vocalic Alternations in Istanbul Judeo-Spanish: A Pilot Study on Semi-Spontaneous Speech DataChristoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke and Aldina Quintana11 Lexical Availability in Contemporary Judeo-SpanishCristóbal José Álvarez López12 Spanish and Judeo-Spanish Today: A Glottopolitical PerspectiveYvette BürkiIndex