Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes. It introduces readers to variation theory, while also providing an overview of current debates on the linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural factors involved in linguistic patterning. With its coverage of a diverse range of language varieties and linguistic problems, this book offers new quantitative...

Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case marking in Polynesian, it attempts to specify what counts as evidence in syntactic reconstruction and how syntactic reanalysis progresses. It therefore represents a first step toward...

The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time of ancient commentators to the present day. The book begins with an introduction to the particularly complex set of factors that affect all efforts to interpret Homeric names. The main chapters are structured around the character and action of selected heroes in their Homeric contexts (in the case of the Iliad, a heroic war; the Odyssey...

Wackernagels Gesetz verdeutlicht die globale Ahnlichkeit naturlicher Sprachen. Wackernagelelemente haben die Tendenz, in zweiter Position, allgemeiner moglichst nahe am Satzanfang zu stehen. Ihre Besonderheiten und ihre Serialisierung im Wackernagelkomplex beschreibt Wackernagels Gesetz im Deutschen als Ergebnis von Interaktionen zwischen Syntax, Phonologie und Informationsstruktur. - Ein Beitrag zu Typologie und Sprachwandeltheorie.

L'arabe andalou fut parle dans la moitie sud de la Peninsule Iberique et meme sur un territoire plus vaste pendant plusieurs siecles. Il a eu un impact considerable sur le developpement des differents types de cultures et des sciences medievales et modernes. Conscient du manque d'interet porte a ce faisceau dialectal, Federico Corriente s'est applique pendant des decennies a analyser minutieusement des faits qu'il a deceles dans des donnees en arabe, mais egalement dissimules dans les langues romanes de la Peninsule Iberique.

Ce premier volume de l'Encyclopedie Linguistique...

Esta coleccion de contribuciones se ocupa de cuestiones lexicograficas y gramaticales del espanol desde una perspectiva (multi)contrastiva y didactica. El principal objetivo radica en identificar fenomenos clave para la elaboracion de gramaticas y diccionarios contrastivos para el espanol y otras lenguas, atendiendo, a su vez, a los ultimos avances en el campo de la didactica de lenguas.

En la primera parte del volumen se presentan contribuciones sobre el metodo contrastivo en linguistica y ensenanza de lenguas. Asimismo, se aportan reflexiones sobre la comparabilidad de las lenguas...

Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline.

• An authentic, inside story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics
• Gives students access to the views on language variation of major sociolinguists such as Bill Labov and Peter Trudgill
• Offers a...

Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline.

• An authentic, inside story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics
• Gives students access to the views on language variation of major sociolinguists such as Bill Labov and Peter Trudgill
• Offers a...