Dialectology Meets Typology

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197327

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Dialectology meets Typology by Bernd Kortmann Pdf

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).

Author : Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110372540

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Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

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 across languages. Second, they are based on usage data, that is, on corpora of (more or less) authentic text or speech of different languages or language varieties. Third, all chapters are concerned with the joint analysis (also sometimes known as “aggregation” or “data synthesis”) of multiple phenomena, features, or measurements of some sort. And lastly, the contributors all marshal quantitative analysis techniques to analyse the data. In short, the volume explores the text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies, demonstrating that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080877754

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World by Anonim Pdf

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution. Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. * Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes * Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics * Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose * Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage * Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia

Author : Terttu Nevalainen,Juhani Klemola,Mikko Laitinen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293596

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Types of Variation by Terttu Nevalainen,Juhani Klemola,Mikko Laitinen Pdf

This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. The aim of the contributions is to raise the awareness of these linguistic subdisciplines of each other and to encourage their cross-fertilization to their mutual benefit. If linguistic typology is to unify the study of all types of linguistic variation, this variation, both diatopic and diachronic, will enrich typological research itself. With the aim of capturing the relevant dimensions of variation, the studies in this volume make use of new methodologies, including electronic corpora and databases, which enable cross- and intralinguistic comparisons dialectally and across time. Based on original research and unified by an innovative theme, the volume will be of interest to both students and teachers of linguistics and Germanic languages.

Author : Silvia Ballarè,Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110781168

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Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation by Silvia Ballarè,Guglielmo Inglese Pdf

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.

Author : Peter Siemund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521764964

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Varieties of English by Peter Siemund Pdf

This coursebook is an introduction to the fascinating range of regional and social varieties of English encountered around the world. It is specially designed to meet the needs of students, each chapter contains useful exercises targeted at three different ability levels and succinct summaries help students to review important facts.

Author : Jamin R. Pelkey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110245844

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Dialectology as Dialectic by Jamin R. Pelkey Pdf

Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Austraila, 2008.

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Devyani Sharma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199777785

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The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Devyani Sharma Pdf

As the most widely documented language in human history, English holds a unique key to unlocking some of the mysteries of the uniquely human endowment of language. Yet the field of World Englishes has remained somewhat marginal in linguistic theory. This collection heralds a more direct and mutually constructive engagement with current linguistic theories, questions, and methodologies. It achieves this through areal overviews, theoretical chapters, and case studies. The 36 articles are divided between four themes: Foundations, World Englishes and Linguistic Theory, Areal Profiles, and Case Studies. Part I sets out the complex history of the global spread of English. This is followed, in Part II, by chapters addressing the mutual relevance and importance of World Englishes and numerous theoretical subfields of Linguistics. Part III offers detailed accounts of the structure and social histories of specific varieties of English spoken across the globe, highlighting points of theoretical interest. The collection closes with a set of case studies that exemplify the type of analysis encouraged by the volume. As attention is focused on innovative work at the interface of dialect description and theoretical explanation, the book is more succinct in its treatment of applied themes, which are given complementary coverage in other works.

Author : Peter Siemund
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238051

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Linguistic Universals and Language Variation by Peter Siemund Pdf

The volume explores the relationship between linguistic universals and language variation. Its contributions identify the recurrent patterns and principles behind the complex spectrum of observable variation. The volume bridges the gap between cross-linguistic variation, regional variation, diachronic variation, contact-induced variation as well as socially conditioned variation. Moreover, it addresses fundamental methodological and theoretical issues of variation research. The volume brings together internationally renowned specialists of their fields while, at the same time, offering a platform for gifted and highly talented young researchers. The authors come from different theoretical backgrounds and through their work illustrate a rich array of scientific methods. All authors share a strong belief in empirically founded theoretical work. The contributions span a high number of languages and dialects from many parts of the world. They are extremely broad in their empirical coverage addressing an impressive selection of grammatical domains.

Author : Yaron Matras,Peter Bakker,Hristo Kyuchukov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275882

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The Typology and Dialectology of Romani by Yaron Matras,Peter Bakker,Hristo Kyuchukov Pdf

Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the distribution of inflectional, agglutinative, and analytic formation among syntactic categories, regularities in the ongoing shift from inflectional to analytic case formation, suppletion, aspects of syntactic convergence, and patterns of morphological transitivization and de-transitivization (causatives and passives). These phenomena are considered in the light of contemporary discussions on language universals, with reference to a variety of different approaches including Prague School Typology, Functional Sentence Perspective, Functional Grammar, functional-pragmatic typology, and general grammaticalization theory. Chapters partly adopt a comparative approach covering all major dialects of the language, and are partly devoted to single-dialect corpuses. Special attention is given to the Czech/Slovak and Hungarian varieties, to previously undescribed dialects from Bulgaria and Turkey, to codified varieties in Macedonia, and to the variety of dialects discussed in the popular works of the Victorian author George Borrow. An extensive Introduction outlines the principal morphosyntactic features of the language and provides a classification of Romani dialects, including an overview of those mentioned in the volume.

Author : Xosé Álvarez,Ernestina Carrilho,Catarina Magro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443852852

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Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology by Xosé Álvarez,Ernestina Carrilho,Catarina Magro Pdf

Defining the geographical space of linguistic variation and drawing the areal distribution of linguistic variants are classical issues in dialectology. Over recent decades, advances in geolinguistic methods, along with new trends in the study of linguistic variation, have significantly shaped new ways of approaching limits and areas in dialectology. This volume is at the crossroads of recent methodological and conceptual developments in dialectology and brings together contributions offering an unusual panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. The seventeen chapters in this volume address a wide spectrum of issues exploring new approaches to the interplay of dialect areas and time and society (Part I), current quantitative methods of studying dialect limits (Part II), and linguistic geovariation focused on lexical, prosodic, syntactic or morphosyntactic topics (Part III). One of the unique features of the volume is the important collection of contributions addressing issues of dialect syntax, a recent and rapidly growing field of linguistic research.

Author : Bas Aarts,April McMahon,Lars Hinrichs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119540601

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The Handbook of English Linguistics by Bas Aarts,April McMahon,Lars Hinrichs Pdf

Second edition of this popular Handbook bringing together stimulating discussions of core English linguistics topics in a single, authoritative volume—includes numerous new and thoroughly updated chapters The second edition of the popular Handbook of English Linguistics brings together stimulating discussions of the core topics in English linguistics in a single, authoritative volume. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters cover syntax, methodology, phonetics and phonology, lexis and morphology, variation, stylistics, and discourse, and also provide discussions of theoretical and descriptive research in the field. The revised edition includes new and updated chapters on English Corpus Linguistics, experimental approaches, complements and adjuncts, English phonology and morphology, lexicography, and more. In-depth yet accessible chapters introduce key areas of English linguistics, discuss relevant research, and suggest future research directions. An important academic contribution to the field, this book: Presents thirty-two in-depth, yet accessible, chapters that discuss new research findings across the field, written by both established and emerging scholars from around the world Builds upon the very successful first edition, published in 2006 Incorporates new trends in English linguistics, including digital research methods and theoretical advances in all subfields Suggests future research directions The Handbook of English Linguistics, 2nd Edition is an essential reference work for researchers and students working in the field of English language and linguistics.

Author : Charles Boberg,John Nerbonne,Dominic Watt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118827550

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The Handbook of Dialectology by Charles Boberg,John Nerbonne,Dominic Watt Pdf

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190627881

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Author : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. Congreso,Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8497502574

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Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002) by Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. Congreso,Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez Pdf