Author : Juraj Vaňko
Publisher : East European Monographs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Rusyns are a national minority in Slovakia who live primarily in the northeastern part of the country where it borders on Poland and Ukraine. This book describes the position of the Rusyn literary language and Rusyn dialects of eastern Slovakia between and among the Ukrainian and Slovak literary languages and their dialects.
Author : Janette Sampimon
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780929692241
The field of culture.
Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802035660
The Carpatho-Rusyns are an East Central European people, numbering approximately 1.2 million, who live within the borders of four states: Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, and Poland. The first work on the Rusyn culture published in English.
Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107054532
This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.
Author : Bogdan Horbal
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Carpatho-Rusyns
ISBN :
Author : Jenny Cheshire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317885805
Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language examines the differences between 'standard' and 'nonstandard' varieties of several different languages. Not only are some of the best-known languages of Europe represented here, but also some that have been less well-researched in the past. The chapters address the syntax of Dutch, English, French, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. For these languages, and many others, it is the standard varieties on which the most extensive syntactic research has been carried out, with the result that very little is known about the syntax of their dialects or the spoken colloquial varieties. The editors of this volume seek to redress the balance by taking a cross-linguistic perspective on the historical development of the standardised varieties. This allows them to identify some common characteristics of spoken language. It also helps the reader to understand the kinds of filtering processes that are involved in standardization, which result in the syntax of spoken colloquial language being different from the syntax of the standard varieties. Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, particularly those taking courses in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and historical linguistics. The focus on a variety of languages also makes this text suitable for students studying courses which cover the linguistic aspects of European languages.
Author : Roland Sussex
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139457284
The Slavic group of languages - the fourth largest Indo-European sub-group - is one of the major language families of the modern world. With 297 million speakers, Slavic comprises 13 languages split into three groups: South Slavic, which includes Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian; East Slavic, which includes Russian and Ukrainian; and West Slavic, which includes Polish, Czech and Slovak. This 2006 book, written by two leading scholars in Slavic linguistics, presents a survey of all aspects of the linguistic structure of the Slavic languages, considering in particular those languages that enjoy official status. As well as covering the central issues of phonology, morphology, syntax, word-formation, lexicology and typology, the authors discuss Slavic dialects, sociolinguistic issues, and the socio-historical evolution of the Slavic languages. Accessibly written and comprehensive in its coverage, this book will be welcomed by scholars and students of Slavic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the discipline.
Author : Asya Pereltsvaig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402057938
This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. On the assumption that Merge is defined in the simplest way possible, it is argued that not all syntactic structures are a(nti)symmetrical. One of the copular sentence types is analyzed as a poster child for symmetrical structures, while the other type is treated as asymmetrical. The originality of this study lies in treating the copula in the two types of copular sentences neither as completely identical nor as two distinct lexical items; instead, the two types of copula are derived through the process of semantic bleaching. Furthermore, it is argued that the two types of the copula need to combine with post-copular phrases of different categories. It is concluded that Russian draws a distinction between saturated DPs and unsaturated NPs, in spite of its renowned lack of overt articles.
Author : Professor Greville Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1136861378
This book provides a chapter-length description of each of the modern Slavonic languages and the attested extinct Slavonic languages. Individual chapters discuss the various alphabets that have been used to write Slavonic languages, in particular the Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets; the relationship of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages; their relationship to one another through their common ancestor, Proto-Slavonic; and the extent to what various Slavonic languages have survived in emigration. Each chapter on an individual language is written according to the same general scheme and incorporates the following elements: an introductory section describing the language's social context and, appropriate, the development of the standard language; a discussion of the phonology of the language, including a phonemic inventory and morphophonemic alterations from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives; a detailed presentation of the synchronic morphology of the language, with notes on the major historical developments; an extensive discussion of the syntactic properties of the language; a discussion of vocabulary, including the relation between inherited Slavonic and borrowed vocabulary, with lists of basic lexical items in selected semantic fields colour terms, names of parts of the body and kinship terms; an outline of the main dialects, with an accompanying map; and a bibliography with sources in English and other languages. The book is made particularly accessible by the inclusion of (1) a parallel transliteration of all examples cited from Slavonic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet and (2) English translations of all Slavonic language examples.
