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

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of variation in language, focusing on the role of language-internal constraints on variation and the relation of linguistic variation to linguistic theory. It introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact,...

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the study of variation in language, focusing on the role of language-internal constraints on variation and the relation of linguistic variation to linguistic theory. It introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language contact, the...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Palenque, Cartagena y Afro-Caribe conexiones historicas y linguisticas, Cartagena, Colombia, held at the University of Cartagena in late 1996. The volume features 17 articles by leading figures in the fields of Afro-Hispanic linguistics, creolistics, history, and anthropology. It reflects the state of the art on Palenquero research, and is representative of scholars' special interests in Palenquero.

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little interaction across these fields. But the fourteen contributions in this volume show that these subdisciplines actually share many interests and methodological concerns in common. The chapters specifically converge in the following ways: First, they all seek to explore linguistic variation, within or...

This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary agreement through clitics in non-standardized variation data from Limeno Spanish contact varieties (LSCV). As such it is concerned with diachronic as well as synchronic morphosyntactic variation of the third person object pronoun paradigm, so called clitics, as used in Standard Spanish and non-standardized Spanish contact dialects. The argumentation as well as the data presented cross diachronic and synchronic boundaries.

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for students of Romance Studies for over forty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application and the specific needs and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with...

The earliest translations from English to French have rarely been the objects of careful study. This volume provides detailed empirical analyses of the strategies employed by French translators of early English travel reports on North America. It offers new insights on the history of translation and on aspects of the history of the English and French languages during the 16th and 17th centuries.

This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost...

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not...

Das Deutsche wird seit etwa 1200 Jahren als Fremdsprache gelernt. Die altesten Zeugnisse sind mittelalterliche Glossare fur Reisende. Im Hochmittelalter florierte die 'direkte Methode': Man lernte Volkssprachen durch mundliche Instruktion. Wirtschaftliche Interessen und Massenvertreibungen im Zeichen von Glaubenskonflikten intensivieren im Spatmittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit die Nachfrage nach Kenntnissen des Deutschen. Systematischer Deutschunterricht ist im 15. Jahrhundert in Norditalien nachweisbar, und auch in Mittel- und Osteuropa wird in dieser Zeit Deutsch unterrichtet. Eine...

For the first time, this volume combines linguistic analysis of glosses with cultural and archeological sources to develop a detailed presentation of Old High German names of weapons, covering the entire period of the Middle Ages. The dictionary of weapon names fills a major void in research and will serve as a valuable tool for researchers in cultural and literary studies.