Author : Mari Johanne Bordal Hertzenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110402092
This study describes third person reference in the fourth century Latin text commonly known as the Itinerarium Egeriae, focusing on what is traditionally labelled demonstratives (hic, iste, ille, is, ipse and idem), bare NPs, and null pronouns.
Author : Eystein Dahl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192599771
This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.
Author : Andreas Dufter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110393425
This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.
Author : Jozsef Herman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 38,71 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 : Kate Beeching
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027263795
Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities. The volume is unusual in: i) the range of languages which are covered: Bergamasco, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Swedish; ii) the inclusion of different communicative settings and text-types: workplace emails, everyday and institutional conversations, interviews, migrant narratives, radio phone-ins, dyadic and group settings, road-signs, service encounters; iii) its consideration of both synchronic and diachronic factors; iv) its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches. The volume illustrates some of the linguistic means speakers draw on to position themselves and others and hopes to stimulate further research studies in this vein.
Author : J. N. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316720810
This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in the written record (and in Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they be superficial, reflecting different phenomena at different periods? Most of the chapters, on numerous syntactic and other topics and using different methodologies, have a long chronological range. All attempt to identify patterns of change that might undermine any theory of submerged continuity. The patterns found are summarised in a concluding chapter. The volume addresses classicists with an interest in any of the different periods of Latin, and Romance linguists.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Contrastive linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Paul M. Lloyd
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871691736
Lloyd presents an historical grammar of Spanish that includes 20th-century research on Romance and Spanish languages. He offers a synthesis of the research that has illuminated much of the phonetic and morphological development of Spanish.
Author : Konstanze Jungbluth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110317737
Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.
Author : Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Latin language
ISBN :
