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This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004456171
This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.
Author : Laura Daintrey
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780469662827
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Author : Biljana Sikimić
Publisher : Balkanološki institut SANU
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8671790606
Author : Motoki Nomachi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 100093604X
This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the rise of the ethnolinguistic nation-state during the past century as the sole legitimate model of statehood in today’s Central Europe. The collection’s focus is on the last three decades, namely the postcommunist period, taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history, nature, or deity but as constructs produced, changed, maintained, and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way, the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region’s languages, including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet. Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians, linguists, and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.
Author : Roumen Daskalov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004290362
Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They view the modern history of the region from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled histories. This regards the treatment of shared historical legacies by rival national historiographies. The volume deals with historiograpical disputes that arose in the process of “nationalizing” the past. Contributors include: Diana Mishkova, Alexander Vezenkov, Roumen Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov and Bernard Lory.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191514128
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - which are they? When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures? Only an inductively based cross-linguistic examination can provide an answer. This is what this volume is about. The book starts with a typological introduction outlining principles of contact-induced change and factors which facilitate diffusion of linguistic traits. It is followed by twelve studies of contact-induced changes in languages from Amazonia, East and West Africa, Australia, East Timor, and the Sinitic domain. Set alongside these are studies of Pennsylvania German spoken by Mennonites in Canada in contact with English, Basque in contact with Romance languages in Spain and France, and language contact in the Balkans. All the studies are based on intensive fieldwork, and each cast in terms of the typological parameters set out in the introduction. The book includes a glossary to facilitate its use by graduates and advanced undergraduates in linguistics and in disciplines such as anthropology.
Author : T. Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1167 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0230583474
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
Author : Jozsef Herman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780271041773
Vulgar Latin refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although Vulgar Latin is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and vocabulary that occur in texts of the later Roman Empire, late antiquity, and the early Middle Ages. Every aspect of Vulgar Latin is exemplified in this book, proving that the language is not separate in itself, but an integral part of Latin.Originally published in French in 1967, Vulgar Latin was translated more recently into Spanish in an expanded and revised version. The English translation by Roger Wright accurately portrays Vulgar Latin as a complicated field of study, where little is known with absolute certainty, but a great deal can be worked out with considerable probability through careful critical analysis of the data. This text is an invaluable aid to research and understanding for all those interested in Latin, Romance languages, historical linguistics, early medieval texts, and early medieval history.József Herman is the former director of the Linguistic Research Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is currently Professor of Latin Linguistics at the University of Venice. He is a well-known authority on the history of later Latin and the prehistory of Romance languages
Author : Arno Tanner
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 9789529168088
Author : Julia Horvath
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 9783447039543