Linguistic Areas in Europe: Their Boundaries and Political Significance
Author : Leon Dominian
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Europe
ISBN :
The Languages and Linguistics of Europe
Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110220253
Book Description
Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics ofEurope: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduatereadership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe
Author : Andrii Danylenko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110635178
Book Description
Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
Author : Paolo Ramat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027292221
Book Description
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic (historical) angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena. Therefore, methodological key words of this book are areal typology and linguistic area. The issues addressed cover such diverse aspects of language structure and change as verb morphology, relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases, conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal constructions, reduplication and early translations of the Gospels. These topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will interest researchers in typological, historical, functional and general linguistics.
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
Author : Paolo Ramat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230980
Book Description
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on 'Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects'. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic (historical) angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena. Therefore, methodological key words of this book are areal typology and linguistic area. The issues addressed cover such diverse aspects of language structure and change as verb morphology, relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases, conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal constructions, reduplication and early translations of the Gospels. These topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will interest researchers in typological, historical, functional and general linguistics.
Linguistic Diversity
Author : Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287149800
Book Description
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Author : Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8763542099
Book Description
Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like before it did so? This book explores the continent before the spread of the Indo-Europeans, examines its indigenous population and the contacts it had with Indo-European and Uralic immigrants, and, ultimately, asks how these origins led to the development of that crucial singularity for Europe’s languages. Drawing on archaeology, religious studies, and palaeography, the contributors offer a detailed and comprehensive picture of Europe’s linguistic and, in turn, cultural prehistory.
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Author : Matthias Hüning
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902727391X
Book Description
This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one people'. Consequently, multilingualism came to be viewed as an undesirable aberration. The authors of this volume approach the relationship between standard languages and multilingualism from a historical, cross-European perspective. They provide a comprehensive overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its intricate relationship with matters of ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility. They explain for different European language areas in what ways the emergence of standard languages had an impact on multilingual policies and practices. Its comparative approach makes this volume an important resource for linguists, researchers from different philologies and social historians.
The Changing Languages of Europe
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199297339
Book Description
"Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe." "The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change."--BOOK JACKET.
Linguistic Areas in Europe
Author : Leon Dominian
Publisher :
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Europe
ISBN :
