¿Merú Levy lexicógrafa? Definiciones y aclaraciones léxicas en el fichero de Cynthia M. Crews

Elisabeth Fernández Martín

doi:10.3989/sefarad.017.015

Meru Levy, a Lexicographer? Lexical Glosses and Clarifications in the Cynthia M. Crews’s Card Index

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Elisabeth Fernández Martín Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-4723

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.017.015

Keywords:

Judeo-Spanish, Oral informant, Vocabulary, Lexicography, Dictionaries, Sephardic Studies

Abstract

The current research aims to address the contribution of the oral informant Merú Levy to Cynthia Crews’s Judeo-Spanish lexical card index, and especially her synonymic and periphrastic definitions, in order to determine their authenticity, to establish –where possible– whether they are a product of her idiolect, and to examine their reliability as valid lexicographic definitions. Once these explanations had been selected from among the thousands of cards that compose the index, the corpus has been formed by some more than four hundred examples, which constitute the bases for the present study. Therefore, this research consists of: (I) an introduction, where we describe the Judeo-Spanish lexical card index and the sources that form it; (II) a contextualization of the Merú Levy personality and a presentation of their contributions to the card index; (III) a description and analysis of the lexical explanations; and (IV) the conclusions.

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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

Fernández Martín, E. (2017). Meru Levy, a Lexicographer? Lexical Glosses and Clarifications in the Cynthia M. Crews’s Card Index. Sefarad, 77(2), 429–447. https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.017.015

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Vol. 77 No. 2 (2017)

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Studies

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