Comparative Historical Dialectology

Author : Thomas D. Cravens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588113132

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Comparative Historical Dialectology by Thomas D. Cravens Pdf

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has enjoyed a satisfactory solution. This book attempts to demonstrate that both outcomes are ultimately attributable to the loss of early pan-Romance consonant gemination.This study is of interest not only to the language-specific field of historical Romance linguistics, but also to general historical linguistics. The central problems examined here constitute classic cases of questions that cannot be answered by confining analysis solely to the individual languages under investigation. The passage of time, the indirect nature of fragmentary and accidental documentation, and the nature of the changes themselves conspire to deny access to the most essential facts. However, comparison of closely cognate languages now undergoing change supplies a perspective for discerning conditions that may ultimately lead to states achieved in the distant past by the languages under investigation.

Author : Georgij S. Sčur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:609793937

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A Comparative-historical Study of Cognate Languages and Dialectology by Georgij S. Sčur Pdf

Author : Allan R. Keiler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005148724

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A Reader in Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Allan R. Keiler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 082047018X

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Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110848137

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Historical Dialectology by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general issues. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.

Author : Trask R. L. Trask
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781474473316

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Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Trask R. L. Trask Pdf

Historical and comparative linguistics has been a major scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever devoted to it. With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the exciting advances of the last few years, many of which have not even made it into textbooks yet.All of the traditional terms are here, but so are the terms only introduced recently, in connection with such varied subjects as pidgin and creole languages, the sociolinguistic study of language change, mathematical and computational methods, the novel approaches to linguistic geography, the controversial proposals of new and vast language families, and the attempts at relating the results of the historical linguists to those of the archaeologists, the anthropologists and the geneticists.More than just a dictionary, this book provides genuine linguistic examples of most of the terms entered, detailed explanations of fundamental concepts, critical assessment of controversial ideas, cross-references to related terms, and an abundance of references to the original literature.Features:*The first dictionary in the field.*Comprehensive coverage.*Clearly written and accurate entries.*Covers traditional and contemporary terminology.*Provides linguistic examples of terms defined.*Supplies numerous cross-references to related terms.*Includes hundreds of references to the original literature.

Author : Clive Holes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191005060

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Arabic Historical Dialectology by Clive Holes Pdf

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology; types of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalisation; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region - Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the Gulf, and South Arabia - with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the b- verbal prefix, and the adnominal linker -an/-in. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.

Author : David Prager Branner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802849

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Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology by David Prager Branner Pdf

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.

Author : Raimo Anttila
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235565

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Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Raimo Anttila Pdf

In any course of historical and comparative linguistics there will be students of different language backgrounds, different levels of linguistic training, and different theoretical orientation. This textbook attempts to mitigate the problems raised by this heterogeneity in a number of ways. Since it is impossible to treat the language or language family of special interest to every student, the focus of this book is on English in particular and Indo-European languages in general, with Finnish and its closely related languages for contrast. The tenets of different schools of linguistics, and the controversies among them, are treated eclectically and objectively; the examination of language itself plays the leading role in our efforts to ascertain the comparative value of competing theories. This revised edition (1989) of a standard work for comparative linguists offers an added introduction dealing mainly with a semiotic basis of change, a final chapter on aspects of explanation, particularly in historical and human disciplines, and added sections on comparative syntax and on the semiotic status of the comparative method.

Author : Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393248

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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz Pdf

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

Author : Alexander S. Heard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944787984

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Essays on Russian Historical Dialectology by Alexander S. Heard Pdf

The book is a monumental work of almost 60 years of research and expeditions of Professor Alexander Herd in Russian historical dialectology. Readers, who are interested in language variation and historical linguistics, will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in Russian historical dialectology. The monograph deals with various aspects of Russian historical regional dialectology. The monograph borders on the issue of historical dialectology and linguistic change. The information is proportionally focused on Russian historical dialectology. At the same time it serves as a comparative linguistics manual for ALL slavic languages. The monograph covers all aspects of Russian historical dialectology, presenting the material with the dialectological map of the Russian Dialects. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.

Author : Raimo Anttila
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015004066539

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An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics by Raimo Anttila Pdf

Author : Rhona Alcorn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474430555

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Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age by Rhona Alcorn Pdf

Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.

Author : Marina Dossena,Roger Lass
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dialectology
ISBN : 3034300247

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Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology by Marina Dossena,Roger Lass Pdf

Originally presented at the second in the newly-launched series of International Conferences on English Historical Dialectology, held at the University of Bergamo in August 2007, the contributions collected in this volume discuss significant aspects of socio-geo-historical variation in language. In addition to British English, the focus is on Dutch, Scots and varieties of English outside England (in Wales and in the American colonies of the seventeenth century), in a time span ranging from medieval times to the nineteenth century. The aim is to highlight the traits that allow scholars to approach the study of English in a broader European perspective, identifying the patterns that show convergence or divergence, not just in terms of shared linguistic features (morphosyntactic, lexical or pragmatic), but also in terms of methodological approaches. In this respect, great attention is given to the latest developments in corpus and computational linguistics, showing the extent to which such new tools as electronic atlases and tagged corpora may facilitate answers to important research questions. At the same time, perceptual dialectology is awarded new interest on account of its significant role in normative and argumentative language use.

Author : Institut russkogo i︠a︡zyka (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN : UCLA:31158005306971

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Russian Dialectology by Institut russkogo i︠a︡zyka (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR) Pdf