Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1993-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521311663
This historical survey enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the past two centuries, and contrasts them with the practice of etymology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902728315X
The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the great champion of etymology in linguistics as evidenced by several of the selected essays in From Particular to General Lingusitics. But here Malkiel also moves in several other subfields of linguistics and proves that whatever the subject of discussion is, it is characterized by a tenaciously comprehensive use of evidence.
Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027235163
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.
Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1992-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027274274
The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the title of the book reflects these interrelationships. The volume opens with a previously unpublished paper which centers around the history of English. The other papers deal with topics from the Romance languages in general, and from Old French and Spanish in particular. The author has added a “Retrospect”, in which all articles are discussed once more in the light of recent developments. An Index of Names and an exhaustive Index of Key Concepts round off the volume.
Author : R. R. K. Hartmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415253680
Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027274339
Phonosymbolism, or sound symbolism (Lautsymbolik), is a vital ingredient of language growth. Many serious scholars, however, have regarded it with embarrassment or indifference. A cautious reintroduction of phonosymbolism as a factor responsible for changes undergone, in varying degrees, by most languages would now seem to be in order. The present volume brings together a number of recent articles on this subject, focusing mostly on problems from Romance languages, especially Spanish; but English also figures prominently.
Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004351899
This book, a reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics, contains five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The individual contributions cover a broad range of topics, from Ferdinand de Saussure's influence on historical linguistics to the connection between inflectional paradigms and sound change to language change in contemporary linguistic communities. Each of the contributions has had a sizable effect on the development of linguistics; the final paper, by Uriel Weinreich, Marvin Herzog, and William Labov, for instance, laid the foundation for contemporary historical sociolinguistics. The volume has long been out of print; this new edition will make it accessible to a new generation of linguists.
Author : Timothy M. S. Baxter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004095977
This detailed discussion of the "Cratylus" aims to explain the function of the long etymological section within the dialogue as a whole, arguing that it represents a Platonic critique of common Greek ideas about names.
Author : Ali M. Al Kasimi
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 9789004071049
This book gives an account of the linguistic principles that should govern the production of better bilingual dictionaries and is intended for linguists, lexicographers, librarians, and foreign language teachers. -- from Preface ([p. 9] from cover).
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2822 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110215586
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
