Contact Morphology In Modern Greek Dialects

Author : Angela Ralli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443889322

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Contact Morphology in Modern Greek Dialects by Angela Ralli Pdf

This volume bridges contemporary morphological theory with the less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and will serve to increase the reader’s understanding of how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other. On the one hand, it shows that the study of dialects offers new challenges to contact morphology, and, on the other, it argues that morphological theory may provide accurate and interesting tools for the analysis of dialectal data. In addition, it proves that dialectal contact-morphology can be profitable for historical linguistics and typology, since it may shed light on language change and structures. The book brings together researchers working on morphology, language contact, and Modern Greek dialects, namely those that have been heavily affected by typologically divergent and sometimes genetically different languages, that is, by the Indo-European and semi-fusional Romance languages and by the Altaic and agglutinative Turkish. Emphasis is placed on a number of issues which are of major importance to contact morphology, such as the role and interplay of language-internal and language-external factors in linguistic change, the borrowing of word-structure and functional categories, the source and use of integrating elements, reduplication, multiple exponence, and case and gender assignment.

Author : Angela Ralli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004394506

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The Morphology of Asia Minor Greek by Angela Ralli Pdf

This volume provides an unprecedented collection of data from the Asia Minor Greek dialects, affected by Turkish and Romance. It investigates issues regarding inflection, derivation and compounding, and aims to increase our understanding of morphology, dialectology and language change.

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474448215

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Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation by Pius ten Hacken Pdf

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing has largely been studied from etymological and lexicographical perspectives and word formation has been included in morphology. However, this book focuses on their mutual influence and interaction. Bringing together a range of contributors, each chapter illustrates how borrowing and word formation are in competition as alternative naming processes, while also showing how they can influence each other. The case studies are framed by an introduction that describes the general background and a conclusion that summarises the main findings.

Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984

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The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini Pdf

Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...

Author : Angela Ralli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400749603

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Compounding in Modern Greek by Angela Ralli Pdf

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds—their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate compounds, a study as grounded in theory as it is rich in data. Enhancing our knowledge of compounding and word-formation in general, its exceptional scope is a worthy model for linguists, particularly morphologists, and offers insights for students of syntax, phonology, dialectology and typology, among others. The author examines first-tier themes such as the order and relations of constituents, headedness, exocentricity, and theta-role saturation. She shows how Modern Greek compounding relates to derivation and inflection, and charts the boundaries between compounds and phrases. Exploring dialectically variant compounds, and identifying historical changes, the analysis extends to similarly formed compounds in wholly unrelated languages.

Author : Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315515717

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Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change by Brian D. Joseph Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of syntactic change in general. Guided by the constraints and principles of Universal Grammar, this hypothesis of this study allows for an understanding of how these changes in Greek syntax occurred and so provides insight into the mechanism of syntactic change. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031309762

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Internal and External Causes of Language Change by Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou Pdf

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the “Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe” summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Through this dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change.

Author : Angeliki Alvanoudi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783319908991

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Modern Greek in Diaspora by Angeliki Alvanoudi Pdf

This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia. The study analyzes language contact-induced changes and code switching patterns, by integrating perspectives from contact linguistics and interactional approaches to language use and code switching. Lexical and pragmatic borrowing, code mixing, discourse-related and participant-related code switching, and factors promoting language maintenance are among the topics covered in the book. The study brings to light original data from a speech community that has received no attention in the literature and sheds light on the variation of Greek spoken in diaspora. It will appeal across disciplines to scholars and students in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and migration studies.

Author : P. David Seaman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811766

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Modern Greek and American English in Contact by P. David Seaman Pdf

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350079205

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Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax by Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou Pdf

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Author : Raf Van Rooy
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102105

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Greece’s labyrinth of language by Raf Van Rooy Pdf

Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.

Author : Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110614404

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Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek by Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse Pdf

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovative methodologies. Close attention is paid to the linguistic features that characterize these varieties, with in-depth discussions of lexical, morpho-syntactic, orthographic, and metrical variation, as well as the interrelationship between these different types of variation. The volume thus offers valuable insights into the nature of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, laying the foundation for future studies of linguistic variation in these later stages of the language, while at the same time providing a point of comparison for Classical Greek scholarship

Author : Stavroula Varella
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039105264

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Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek by Stavroula Varella Pdf

Cypriot is unique among the Modern Greek dialects in possessing such a variegated vocabulary - testimony, indeed, to the chequered history of the island. This book presents a thorough investigation of the foreign component of the Cypriot lexis. It traces, firstly, the relevant socio-cultural factors that gave rise to it. It presents, secondly, a detailed account of how words from sources as diverse as Romance, Arabic, Turkish and English became fully nativised and indistinguishable from the native stock. A fresh case study of language contact and lexical borrowing, it addresses such issues as the extent of lexical borrowing, the types of vocabulary borrowed, the relationship between the social integration and the structural adaptation of loans, and the degree and predictability of the phonological, morphological and even semantic modification affecting foreign words.

Author : Geoffrey C. Horrocks
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCSC:32106013202897

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Greek by Geoffrey C. Horrocks Pdf

It is the first book in English to explore the evolution of the Greek language as a whole, in all its regional and social heterogeneity, and in both its spoken and written forms, which, from late antiquity until surprisingly recently, were strikingly different in character, and provided the classic textbook example of what has now come to be known as diglossia.

Author : Alice C. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190464356

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Multiple Exponence by Alice C. Harris Pdf

Multiple (or extended) exponence is the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single morphosemantic feature, bundle of features, or derivational category within a word. This book provides data and direction to the discussion of ME, which has gone in a variety of directions and suffers from lack of evidence. Alice Harris addresses the question of why ME is of interest to linguists and traces the discussion of this concept in the linguistic literature. The four most commonly encountered types of ME are characterized, with copious examples from a broad variety of languages; these types form the basis for discussion of the processing of ME, the acquisition of ME, the historical development of ME, and analysis of ME. The book addresses some of the most important questions involving ME, including why it exists at all.