Rethinking Languages in Contact: The Case of Italian

ISBN-13: 9781904713135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 212 str.

Anna Laura Lepschy; Arturo Tosi

Opis

Taking as its theme the interaction between Italian and other languages, and marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Weinreich's seminal work Languages in Contact, this volume provides an up-to-date survey of the role of linguistic and cultural interaction in the process of language change. The range of contributions covers theoretical issues; phenomena of languages in contact in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; dialect transition and diversity in the North and in the South of Italy; lexical and morphological borrowings; register and syntactic loans in the Romance area; old and new contact varieties of Italian in the Mediterranean, including Malta and North Africa; and, finally, Italian under pressure from English in EU institutions. The volume is published in memory of Joseph Cremona, and includes a bibliography of his work.

Spis treści

1. On Re-reading Weinreich's Languages in Contact 2. Languages in Contact in Medieval Italy 3. Latin and Italian in Contact in Some Renaissance Grammars 4. Latin and Vernacular in Contact in the Sixteenth Century: The Latin Model of Giambullari's Grammar 5. Markedness, Salience and Language Change: Exploring an Italo-Romance Transition Area 6. The North—South Axis of Romance: Contact Reinforcing Typology? 7. Accommodating Synonymy: How Some Italo-Romance Verbs React to Lexical and Morphological Borrowings 8. Syntactic Borrowing as a Function of Register 9. The Dual Complementizer System in Southern Italy: Spirito Greco, Materia Romanza? 10. Dialectology and History: The Problem of the Adriatic—Tyrrhenian Dialect Corridor 11. The Maghreb Papers in Italian Discovered by Joe Cremona 12. Languages and Varieties in Use in Malta Today: Maltese, English, Italian, Maltese English and Maltaliano 13. Languages in Contact with and without Speaker Interaction

O autorze

Anna-Laura Lepschy