Historical Romance Linguistics

Author : Randall Scott Gess,Deborah Arteaga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247889

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Historical Romance Linguistics by Randall Scott Gess,Deborah Arteaga Pdf

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five 'major' Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. An introduction by the eminent Romance Linguist Jürgen Klausenburger addresses the fit of these studies in the overall development of the field of historical Romance linguistics since the 19th century. The studies in this volume demonstrate an organic link between Malkiel's (1961) 'classic' definition of Romance linguistics and the field of Romance linguistics today, because just as scholars of the field in the 19th century successfully applied the dominant paradigm of (historical) linguistics of their time, Neogrammarian theory, so do the authors contained in the present volume avail themselves of current linguistic advances to achieve equally significant results.

Author : Ti Alkire,Carol Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521889155

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Romance Languages by Ti Alkire,Carol Rosen Pdf

This book describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Author : Steven N. Dworkin,Dieter Wanner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284426

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New Approaches to Old Problems by Steven N. Dworkin,Dieter Wanner Pdf

This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, “New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics”, held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance historical linguistics within the framework of new analytical approaches, many of which represent extensions into the diachronic realm of methodologies and theories originally formulated to explain aspects of synchronic phonology and syntax. Insights afforded by Principles and Parameters, the Minimalist Program, Optimality Theory, grammaticalization theory, and sociohistorical linguistics are used to elucidate such long-standing issues in traditional historical grammar as diphthongization in Hispano-Romance, syncope of intertonic vowels in Hispano- and Gallo-Romane, Romance lenition, the role of analogy in morphological change, word order, infinitival constructions, and the collocation of clitic object pronouns in Old French and Old Spanish.

Author : Randall Gess,Deborah Arteaga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293824

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Historical Romance Linguistics by Randall Gess,Deborah Arteaga Pdf

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. An introduction by the eminent Romance Linguist Jürgen Klausenburger addresses the fit of these studies in the overall development of the field of historical Romance linguistics since the 19th century. The studies in this volume demonstrate an organic link between Malkiel’s (1961) ‘classic’ definition of Romance linguistics and the field of Romance linguistics today, because just as scholars of the field in the 19th century successfully applied the dominant paradigm of (historical) linguistics of their time, Neogrammarian theory, so do the authors contained in the present volume avail themselves of current linguistic advances to achieve equally significant results.

Author : Thomas D. Cravens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521800730

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.

Author : John Charles Smith,Martin Maiden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236258

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Linguistic Theory and the Romance Languages by John Charles Smith,Martin Maiden Pdf

This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to the view that Romance Linguistics is not narrowly philological, but is rather General Linguistics practised with reference to particular data. The point has been made many times, but is worth reiterating, that Latin and the Romance languages offer an unrivalled wealth of synchronic and historical documentation, and provide both a stimulus and a test-bed for ideas about language structure, language change, and language variation. Many of the papers in this volume can be interpreted simultaneously as using the analytical tools of linguistic theory to illuminate the structure of individual Romance languages or of the family as a whole, and as using Romance data to throw light on general problems in linguistic theory, or on the structure of languages beyond Romance. Specific areas covered include: prosodic domains; quantification; agreement; the prepositional accusative; clitic pronouns; voice and aspect.

Author : Margaret E. Winters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261236

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Historical Linguistics by Margaret E. Winters Pdf

This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time. Examples come principally from Germanic (English, German, Yiddish) and Romance (French and Spanish), but with some exploration of aspects of the history of other languages as well. Each chapter concludes with exercises based on material in the chapter and also with suggestions for extensions of the content to wider issues in diachronic linguistics.

Author : John Hewson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474507507

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Workbook for Historical Romance Linguistics by John Hewson Pdf

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393

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The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner Pdf

What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

Author : Bela Brogyanyi,Reiner Lipp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277473

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Historical Philology by Bela Brogyanyi,Reiner Lipp Pdf

The present volume mainly contains contributions on the classical language, Greek and Latin. In addition to the historical comparative linguistic aspects of these languages, philological and historical questions are dealt with as well. Consideration of Italic and Romance topics is also included. The volume is divided into 7 sections: I. Greek linguistics, II. Greek lexicology, III. Mycenology. IV. Greek philology, V. Italic and Latin philology, VI. Latin and Romance languages, VII. Roman history.

Author : Carl Kirschner,Janet Ann DeCesaris
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235541

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Studies in Romance Linguistics by Carl Kirschner,Janet Ann DeCesaris Pdf

The papers collected in this volume reflect the numerous interests in the field of Romance languages and Romance linguistics today. A far-ranging amount of Romance data are presented: French, Italian, and Spanish dialect data are crucial to several authors' arguments, Rumanian is the focus of two papers, and many of the papers included discuss overall Romance developments. It is noteworthy that formal approaches to syntax are here regularly applied to historical data (three papers specifically deal with pro-drop phenomena in Old French). Of the papers on phonology, syllabification and linking processes receive much attention.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108602792

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The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics by Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden Pdf

The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521800723

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

This Cambridge history is the definitive guide to the comparative history of the Romance languages. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance).

Author : Roger Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780271044668

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Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages by Roger Wright Pdf

This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important interdisciplinary conference held at Rutgers University in 1989. Eighteen internationally known specialists in linguistics, history, philology, Latin, and Romance languages tackle the difficult question of how and when Latin evolved into the Romance languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The result is a stimulating and open exchange that offers the most up-to-date and accessible coverage of the topic. Contributors are Paul M. Lloyd, Tore Janson, J&ózsef Herman, Alberto Varvaro, Thomas D. Cravens, Harm Pinkster, John N. Green, Roger Wright, Marc Van Uytfanghe, Rosamond McKitterick, Katrien Heene, Michel Banniard, Birte Stengaard, Carmen Pensado, Thomas J. Walsh, Robert Blake, Ant&ónio Emiliano, and Marcel Danesi.