Advances In Proto Basque Reconstruction With Evidence For The Proto Indo European Euskarian Hypothesis

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429000263

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Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction with Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis by Juliette Blevins Pdf

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics. Building on a long tradition of Basque scholarship, the comparative method and internal reconstruction, informed by the phonetic bases of sound change and phonological typology, are used to explain previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in Basque sound patterns, resulting in a radically new view of the proto-language. The comparative method is then used to compare this new Proto-Basque with Proto-Indo-European, revealing regular sound correspondences in basic vocabulary and grammatical formatives. Evaluation of these results supports a distant genetic relationship between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European, and offers new insights into specific linguistic properties of these two ancient languages. This comprehensive volume, which includes a detailed appendix including Proto-Basque/Proto-Indo-European cognate sets, will be of general interest to linguists, archeologists, historians, and geneticists, and of particular interest to scholars in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, language change, and Basque and Indo-European studies.

Author : Darya Kavitskaya,Alan C. L. Yu,William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College Alan C L Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192845818

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The Life Cycle of Language by Darya Kavitskaya,Alan C. L. Yu,William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College Alan C L Yu Pdf

This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Selis-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.

Author : Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490290

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Complex Words by Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

Author : Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197755259

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Decolonizing Linguistics by Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline. The introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) as well as various disciplines and subfields (applied linguistics, communication, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization/reclamation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax). Contributors address such topics as refusing settler-colonial practices and centering community goals in research on Indigenous languages; decolonizing research partnerships between the Global South and the Global North; and prioritizing Black Diasporic perspectives in linguistics. The volume's conclusion lays out specific actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to refuse coloniality in linguistics and to move the field toward a decolonized future.

Author : Martine Robbeets,Alexander Savelyev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192526786

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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages by Martine Robbeets,Alexander Savelyev Pdf

The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.

Author : Patience Epps,Danny Law,Na'ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429641619

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Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages by Patience Epps,Danny Law,Na'ama Pat-El Pdf

This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward developing better informed approaches to language documentation and description. The volume brings together perspectives from both established and up-and-coming scholars and represents a globally and linguistically diverse range of languages.The collected papers demonstrate the ways in which endangered languages can challenge existing models of language change based on more commonly studied languages, and can generate innovative insights into linguistic phenomena such as pathways of grammaticalization, forms and dynamics of contact-driven change, and the diachronic relationship between lexical and grammatical categories. In so doing, the book highlights the idea that processes and outcomes of language change long held to be universally relevant may be more sensitive to cultural and typological variability than previously assumed. Taken as a whole, this collection brings together perspectives from language documentation and historical linguistics to point the way forward for richer understandings of both language change and documentary-descriptive approaches, making this key reading for scholars in these fields.

Author : Carolina P. Amador-Moreno,Dagmar Haumann,Arne Peters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003807957

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Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno,Dagmar Haumann,Arne Peters Pdf

This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts. With a clear focus on English, chapters in the volume showcase a broad range of digital methods and approaches that can contribute to advancing the study of historical linguistics. Visualization tools and corpus-linguistic techniques are part of the methodologies included in the volume. The chapters present empirically based research and discuss theoretical aspects that emphasize how digitalization is changing our analysis of different domains of language, going from phonology to specific grammatical/morphosyntactic and lexical features, to discourse-related issues more broadly. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.

Author : José Ignacio Hualde,Joseba A. Lakarra,R.L. Trask
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285676

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Towards a History of the Basque Language by José Ignacio Hualde,Joseba A. Lakarra,R.L. Trask Pdf

Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an overview of past and current research in this area. This book is intended to partly fill this void. The book contains both state-of-the-art papers which summarize our knowledge about particular areas of Basque historical linguistics, and articles presenting new hypotheses and points of view based on hard evidence and careful analysis. All contributors to this volume have demonstrated expertise in the topic within Basque historical linguistics that their chapter addresses. Two classical articles by the late Luis Michelena are included in English translation. In addition, the book includes studies on diachronic phonology, morphology and syntax. The relation of Basque to other languages is also investigated in a couple of chapters.

Author : Joseph C. Salmons,Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275714

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Nostratic by Joseph C. Salmons,Brian D. Joseph Pdf

The “Nostratic” hypothesis — positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic — has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another’s arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally. The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswalt; D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.

Author : Thomas V. Gamkrelidze,Vjaceslav V. Ivanov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110815030

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Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze,Vjaceslav V. Ivanov Pdf

“Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

Author : Bert Vaux
Publisher : Phonology of the World's Langu
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106019072385

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The Phonology of Armenian by Bert Vaux Pdf

This study presents the first contemporary linguistic treatment of Armenian, an Indo-European language whose distinct dialects range geographically from Poland to India. The book documents a rich linguistic (and literary) history dating from the fourth-century translation of the Bible into Classical Armenian. Data are drawn from Classical, Middle, and Standard Eastern and Western Armenian, and from the author's fieldwork on non-standard dialects.

Author : Mattis List
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110720082

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Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics by Mattis List Pdf

The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered. So far, the application of traditional techniques for sequence comparison is very tedious and time-consuming, since scholars have to apply them manually, without computational support. In this study, algorithms from bioinformatics are used to develop computational methods for sequence comparison in historical linguistics. The new methods automatize several steps of the traditional comparative method and can thus help to ease the painstaking work of language comparison. Dissertations in Language and Cognition This series explores issues of mental representation, lingustic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.

Author : R. L. Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136167638

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The History of Basque by R. L. Trask Pdf

Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It also provides a long critical evaluation of the search for its relatives, as well as a thumbnail sketch of the language, a summary of its typological features, an external history and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824823753

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Nhanda by Juliette Blevins Pdf

This book presents the first detailed sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. This language was once spoken along the lower Murchison River, from Kalbarri inland, and south to present-day Northampton and Geraldton, but has remained largely unknown until recent years. Nhanda is based on the author's fieldwork in Western Australia from 1993 to 1998 with one of the last speakers of the language, and also incorporates notes of early explorers and linguists who passed through the area. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a comprehensive study of Nhanda sound patterns, major sections on nominal and verbal morphology, and descriptions of simple sentences and constituent order. Each chapter is rich in data and provides comparative evidence with important implications for historical relationships between the languages of Australia. The volume also includes Nhanda-English and English-Nhanda alphabetical vocabularies and an alphabetical list of Nhanda affixes.

Author : Daniel Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : LCCN:11911572

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The Phoneme by Daniel Jones Pdf