Author : Jan Casalicchio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004430970
The Grammar of Central Trentino provides a comprehensive grammatical description of a Romance dialect spoken in the North-East of Italy. The description of morphological, syntactic and pragmatic phenomena is accessible to a non-specialist public interested in Romance varieties.
Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198841167
This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer; inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery; and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.
Author : Barbara Hans-Bianchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2024-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111188345
This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact. It contains novel works on unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings and aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and emergence of new varieties are explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives. The contact settings vary from official and majority languages to minority, endangered and/or non-official varieties in different parts of the world.
Author : Silvio Cruschina
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027263256
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf. Chomsky 2001; 2008) and the cartographic enterprise (cf. Rizzi 1997; Cinque 1999). In this respect, the dialects of Italy are no exception, in that they present comparative Romance linguists and theoretical linguists alike with many valuable opportunities to study the linguistic interfaces, as highlighted by the many case studies presented in this volume which provide a series of original insights into how different components of the linguistic system – syntactic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic – do not necessarily operate in isolation but, rather, interact to license phenomena whose nature and distribution can only be fully understood in terms of the formal mapping between the interfaces.
Author : Elissa Pustka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724958X
Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and statistical analysis. This approach considers phenomena that have received little attention to date, such as migration, language contact, mobility and educational level, as well as the differentiation between rural and urban spaces. Transparently described and intersubjectively comprehensible encodings permit the enhancement of dialectometry in the context of Digital Humanities and further development of linguistic theories of variation and change, as well as different levels of structure (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics). This book contains nine chapters on ongoing corpus dialectological research projects. They discuss current issues of data collection, for example the validity of crowdsourced data, explore challenges and possibilities of data analysis and offer theoretical reflections on virtual Romance geolinguistics.
Author : Oskar Peterlini
Publisher : Oskar Peterlini
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8890007729
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226122038
No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others.
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Language and languages
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Author : Public Libraries (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Publisher :
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198804636
In this book, Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist programme. The book represents a significant new contribution to the formal study of cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation.
