Formal Approaches To Celtic Linguistics

Author : Andrew Cairnie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443830515

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Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics by Andrew Cairnie Pdf

This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics and morphology of the Celtic languages. Based on presentations given at the Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics Conference in 2009, this book contains articles by leading Celtic linguists on Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the syntax and semantics of clefts to the articulatory phonology of fortis sonorants.

Author : Krzysztof Jaskuła
Publisher : Wydawn. Kul
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN : 8377022958

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Formal and Historical Approaches to Celtic Languages by Krzysztof Jaskuła Pdf

Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004373228

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The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages by Randall Hendrick Pdf

This volume, one of the few devoted to Celtic syntax, makes an important contribution to the description of Celtic, focusing on the ordering of major constituents, pronouns, inflection, compounding, and iode-switching. The articles also address current issues in linguistic theory so that Celticists and theoretical linguists alike find this book valuable.

Author : Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680799

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages by Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter Pdf

This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.

Author : Alison Henry,Catrin Rhys
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443853309

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Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning by Alison Henry,Catrin Rhys Pdf

This volume presents a selection of papers from the first international conference of the Irish Network in Formal Linguistics (INFL). INFL is well placed to attract expertise on both microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages, and the volume reflects this expertise. Microvariation approaches the analysis of dialect variation with a focus on how it contributes to the understanding of linguistic theory. The synchronic and diachronic variation examined in this volume includes Irish English, dialects of Italian and dialects of Flemish. Under the linguistic study of Celtic languages, the papers included address important architectural questions in linguistic theory, as well as challenging some notions with a long history in traditional descriptions of the Celtic languages. The final section brings together papers on topics of current theoretical interest in the formal analysis of syntax, semantics and discourse, including phase theoretic approaches to a range of phenomena involving syntactic conditions on semantic interpretation. The final two papers adopt a formal perspective not to aspects of linguistic structure, but to language use in contexts demonstrating the import of formal micro-level sequential analysis of talk-in-interaction for macro-level questions of communication and social organisation.

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317894568

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An Introduction to the Celtic Languages by Paul Russell Pdf

This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.

Author : Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136854729

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The Celtic Languages by Martin J. Ball,Nicole Muller Pdf

This comprehensive volume describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Organized for ease of reference, The Celtic Languages is arranged in four parts. The first, Historical Aspects, covers the origin and history of the Celtic languages, their spread and retreat, present-day distribution and a sketch of the extant and recently extant languages. Parts II and III describe the structural detail of each language, including phonology, mutation, morphology, syntax, dialectology and lexis. The final part provides wide-ranging sociolinguistic detail, such as areas of usage (in government, church, media, education, business), maintenance (institutional support offered), and prospects for survival (examination of demographic changes and how they affect these languages). Special Features: * Presents the first modern, comprehensive linguistic description of this important language family * Provides a full discussion of the likely progress of Irish, Welsh and Breton * Includes the most recent research on newly discovered Continental Celtic inscriptions

Author : Silvia Luraghi,Elisa Roma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110755718

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Valency over Time by Silvia Luraghi,Elisa Roma Pdf

Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

Author : Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680744

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages by Elliott Lash,Fangzhe Qiu,David Stifter Pdf

This book showcases the state of the art in the corpus-based linguistics of medieval Celtic languages. Its chapters detail theoretical advances in analysing variation/change in the Celtic languages and computational tools necessary to process/analyse the data. Many contributions situate the Celtic material in the broader field of corpus-based diachronic linguistics. The application of computational methods to Celtic languages is in its infancy and this book is a first in medieval Celtic Studies, which has mainly concentrated on philological endeavours such as editorial and literary work. The Celtic languages represent a new frontier in the development of NLP tools because they pose special challenges, like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms, irregular orthography, and consonant mutations. With so much data available in non-electronic form and ongoing efforts to convert these data to computer-readable format, there is much room for the developing/testing of new tools. This books provides an overview of this process at a crucial time in the development of the field and aims to the data accessible to computational linguists with an interest in diachronic change.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119485063

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The Handbook of Language Contact by Raymond Hickey Pdf

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.

Author : Enoch Aboh,Eric Haeberli,Genoveva Puskás,Manuela Schönenberger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504037

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Elements of Comparative Syntax by Enoch Aboh,Eric Haeberli,Genoveva Puskás,Manuela Schönenberger Pdf

This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of typologically diverse languages, with some studies drawing on dialectal, acquisitional and diachronic evidence. Set against this rich empirical background, the contributions address an equally wide range of theoretical issues.

Author : S. J. Hannahs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199601233

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The Phonology of Welsh by S. J. Hannahs Pdf

The first comprehensive account of Welsh phonology opens with a concise history of the language and its relation to the other Celtic languages. Six chapters then explore its sound system, including the phonetic background, syllables, feet, phonotactics, and stress, and the characteristics of the dialects.

Author : Marlies Kluck,Dennis Ott,Mark de Vries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514831

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Parenthesis and Ellipsis by Marlies Kluck,Dennis Ott,Mark de Vries Pdf

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.

Author : Carlos García-Castillero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110680324

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Clause Typing in the Old Irish Verbal Complex by Carlos García-Castillero Pdf

Austin’s words on page 1 of his seminal work How to do things with words are valid for this study on clause typing in the Old Irish verbal complex: “The phenomenon to be discussed is very widespread and obvious, and it cannot fail to have been already noticed, at least here and there, by others. Yet I have not found attention paid to it specifically”. Old Irish, a regular V1 language, morphologically distinguishes six clause types, to wit, declarative, relative, wh- and polar interrogative, responsive and imperative clause types. After discussing the constituency of the Old Irish verbal complex and the pragmatically marked orders, i.e. cleft-sentence and left-dislocation, the form, function, paradigmatic consistency and syntax of those clause types are then analysed in detail. The other main issues of this study are the descriptively adequate paradigm of clause types and the interaction of clause typing with subordination and with non-verbal predication in Old Irish. This monograph offers a comprehensive view of clause typing, its morphological expression and related phenomena in the earliest Insular Celtic language, and may also contribute to the general consideration of these topics in both the typological and diachronic perspectives.

Author : Johannes Hein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110635607

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Verb Doubling and Dummy Verb by Johannes Hein Pdf

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.