Jewish Language Research Website

Elaine R. Miller

Academic Affiliation

• Georgia State University, United States

Contact Information

• Email: emiller3 @ gsu.edu

Research Interests

Language Contact

• Miller, E. R. 2000. Jewish Multiglossia: Hebrew, Arabic, and Castilian in Medieval Spain. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta.

Code Switching (Spanish/Hebrew, Medieval)

• Miller, E. R. 2001. A Comparison of Jewish Regulations and Regulations about Jews in Fifteenth-Century Castile. Accepted for presentation at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington.
• Miller, E. R. 2000. Borrowing v. Code Switching: Applying Myers-Scotton to the Valladolid Taqqanot. Presented at Fourth Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Bloomington, IN.
• Miller, E. R. 2000. On taqqanot and Ordenancas: Synonyms, Parallelisms, and Other Borrowings in the Valladolid Taqqanot. Presented at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington.
• Miller, E. R. 1999. Medieval Spanish-Hebrew Language Switching: A Comparison with Joshi's constraint. Presented at South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis.
• Miller, E. R. 1999. Medieval Spanish-Hebrew Language Mixing: A Comparison with Poplack's Code-Switching Constraints. Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.

Judeo-Spanish

• Miller, E. R. 2001. Some Linguistic Characteristics of the Valladolid Taqqanot and Other Legal Documents of the Fifteenth Century. Accepted for presentation at the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies. London.
• Miller, E. R. 2000. In Search of Evidence for Pre-Expulsion Judeo-Spanish. Presented at Misgav Yerushalayim's Sixth International Congress. Jerusalem.
• Miller, E. R. 1999. Linguistic Identity in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Spanish Jews. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In S. McKee (ed.), Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 3. Turnhout. Belgium: Brepols. 57-77.
• Miller, E. R. 1998. Polyglossia and the Medieval Spanish Jews: In Search of a Construct. Presented at Seventh Annual Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies. Miami.
• Miller, E. R. 1997. Linguistic Identity among the Jews: Defining the Roles of Hebrew, Arabic, and Castilian in Medieval Spain Presented at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Tempe.
• Miller, E. R. 1994. The Spanish of the Jews v. Judeo-Spanish: The History of a Polemic. Presented at the II Congreso Internacional sobre la cultura hispano-judia: El mundo cultural judio en la Espana alfonsi, Escuela Universitaria Levinsky. Tel Aviv.

Translation (Alfonsine/Medieval)

• Miller, E. R. 1996. The Role of the Jewish Translation Tradition in the Alfonsine Period. Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
• Miller, E. R. 1995. The Multilingualism of Alfonso X's Jewish Translators. Presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington.