Medieval Spanish and Judeo-Spanish

Metathesis in Judeo-Spanish Consonant Clusters

Judeo-Spanish (JS) denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Some descriptions of JS emphasize its conservative, archaic nature, highlighting its similarities to Old Spanish (OS), while other research points up the novel characteristics that d...

Constraints on the Metathesis of Sonorant Consonants in Judeo-Spanish

Judeo-Spanish denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. This paper examines three types of consonant metathesis in Judeo-Spanish: daldo < dadlo ‘give it’, terné ‘I will have’ < tener ‘to have’, and tadre < tarde ‘late, afternoon’. The first tw...

Prosodically-conditioned Sibilant Voicing in Balkan Judeo-Spanish

Feminist Approaches to Medieval Spanish History and Literature

Although many of Spain's earliest poetic texts give expression to a female voice, 1 it is not until the fifteenth century that Spain's first female authors are documented.2 It is perhaps for this reason that gender-conscious studies of medieval Spain have been so scarce in relation to those concerning other parts of Europe. Researchers with a feminist perspective have had to limit their investi...

The Phonology-Morphology Interface in Judeo-Spanish Diminutive Formation: A Lexical Ordering and Subcategorization Approach

In this article we examine diminutive formation in Judeo-Spanish, which has not been treated before in the generative literature. The distribution of diminutive suffixes is shown to be predictable based on an interaction of morphological and phonological properties, which is a recognized hallmark of diminutive formation in Spanish more generally. Judeo-Spanish also presents some interesting twi...