Publications

Publication details [#64575]

Wagner, Esther-Miriam and Magdalen Connolly. 2018. Code-switching in Judaeo-Arabic documents from the Cairo Geniza. Multilingua 37 (1) : 1–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | historical linguistics | legal text | letter | writing

Language as a subject

Arabic | Arabic, Judaeo | Aramaic | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article explores code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents (like letters, legal documents) from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic.