Author : Frederick Browning Agard
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780878400881
A comparative/contrastive description of five modern Romance languages - French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Roumanian - in terms of underlying grammar manifested in surface similarities and differences.
Author : Frederick Browning Agard
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780878400744
Agard provides an historical comparison of the major Romance languages with a reconstruction of their common source and a chronological account of their development through changes and splits.
Author : Julie Auger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588115980
This collection of twenty articles, selected from the 33rd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at Indiana University in 2003, presents current theoretical approaches to a variety of issues in Romance linguistics. Invited speakers Luigi Burzio and Jose Ignacio Hualde contribute papers on the paradigmatics and syntagmatics of Italian verbal inflection and comparative/diachronic Romance intonation, respectively. The other papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, represent such areas as French syntax (both synchronic and diachronic), second language acquisition (Spanish & English), Spanish intonation, phonology, syntax, and semantics, Italian semantics, Romanian morphology and syntax, Catalan phonology and morphology, and Galician phonology (two papers). The volume is rounded out by three explicitly comparative studies, one on proto-Romance phonology, one on microvariation in Romance syntax, and a third addressing syntactic microvariation among varieties of French and French-based creoles. Frameworks represented include Optimality Theory, Minimalism, and Construction Grammar.
Author : Johannes Bechert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110121087
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Author : John J. Staczek
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Melvin Stanley Whitley
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780878403813
An invaluable text in language and linguistics because it has a unique scope: a one-volume description of the Spanish language and its differences from English, and ranges from pronunciation and grammar to word meaning, language use, and social and dialectical variation. Designed for survey courses in Spanish linguistics with technical concepts explained in context for beginners in the field, Spanish/English Contrasts brings out the ways in which insights into the two languages have evolved as scholars have built on the work and research of others in the field. A bilingual glossary of linguistic terms is provided to facilitate discussion in either language. This second edition is thoroughly updated to incorporate insights and issues that have come to the fore from the explosion of research in the past twenty-five years in all of the areas covered by the book. It includes an expanded bibliography and index, and adds new exercises for student application and class discussion. Its approach remains broadly based however, in order to accommodate a range of areas and data rather than focusing narrowly on one single theory or research area, and it continues to emphasize implications for language teaching, translation, and other practical applications.
Author : Johannes Kabatek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110716658
Eugenio Coseriu counts among the most important linguistic scholars of the second half of the 20th century. He is known mainly as a structuralist and a Romance linguist, but his work is in fact far more expansive in scope, including a comprehensive linguistic theory as well as writings on a wide range of issues, from semantics, syntax, typology, variational linguistics, language change, pragmatics and text linguistics to Vulgar Latin, the history of the philosophy of language and the history of Romance linguistics. Coseriu’s thought is founded on solid philosophical principles, and his life brought him into contact with a number of different academic traditions and cultures. However, for a variety of reasons (among which, the languages in which he tended to publish: Spanish, Italian, French and German), knowledge of his thought is rather marginal in the Anglo-American world. This book aims to go some way to addressing this situation by offering an overview in English of Coseriu’s main contributions to linguistics, and indeed to other disciplines. It is of general interest for the study of linguistics, the history of linguistics, and the philosophy of language, as well as for a broader reading public.
Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110825880
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Linguistic Society of America
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110117240
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
