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Author : Kurt Goblirsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107034501
The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.
Author : Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788774929598
The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular interest from this point of view, because voice and aspiration, the features traditionally associated with strength, are generally absent. Changes related to strength such as lenition, vowel lengthening, simplification of geminates, and sandhi phenomena receive special attention. The findings are put into their appropriate context by comparison to the results of research on the status of strength in standard German and the modern Germanic languages. Although the realization of strength is language-specific and varies according to word-position, it can be equated with consonant length in standard German and Upper German dialects.
Author : Wolfgang Kehrein,Richard Wiese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110919769
The papers collected in this volume apply principles of phonology and morphology to the Germanic languages. Phonological phenomena range from subsegmental over phonemic to prosodic units (as syllables, pitch accent, stress). Morphology includes properties of roots, derivation, inflection, and words. The analyses deal with language-internal and comparative aspects, covering the whole (European) range of Germanic languages. From a theoretical perspective, most papers concentrate on constraint-based approaches. Crucial to those theories are principles of the phonology-morphology interaction, both within and between languages. The well documented Germanic languages provide an excellent field for research and almost all papers deal with aspects of the interface.
Author : Matt Coler,Andrew Nevins
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104048
This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora. Most of the contributions are empirically-oriented studies presenting first-hand data based on original fieldwork, and a few focus directly on the methodological issues in such research. Owing to the multifaceted nature of contact and diaspora phenomena (e.g. the intrinsic transnational essence of contact and diaspora, and the associated interplay between majority and minoritized languages and multilingual practices in different contact settings, contact-induced language change, and issues relating to convergence) the disciplinary scope is broad, and includes ethnography, qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition. Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiöryś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil.
Author : Peter Grund,Megan Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110643282
This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.
Author : Irmengard Rauch,Gerald F. Carr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110148544
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
Author : Joseph Voyles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004657236
Authored by a well-respected authority in German linguistics, this book offers intensive scholarly analysis, recent discoveries, new methodologies, and important reinterpretations with regard to the emergence of Germanic features. It presents a much-needed scholarly discussion of the phonological and morphological history of early German from Indo-European to 800 A.D. Each chapter presents text samples as well as a discussion of the models and theories proposed regarding the emergence of many features of Germanic. It clearly identifies the problem areas of comparative Germanic with resolutions of many outstanding questions. It includes prototypical text examples for each dialect.
Author : Charles V. J. Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106005011470
Includes a general introduction which looks at the place of German in the Germanic languages, and a brief survey of the emergence of standard New High German through the many scribal systems of Old High German and Middle High German courtly language.
Author : Ekkehard Konig,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317799573
Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.
Author : Wayne Harbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139461528
Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.
Author : John Ole Askedal,Hans Frede Nielsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268235
This volume contains revised and, in some cases, extended versions of twelve of the fourteen lectures read at the conference on “Early Germanic Languages in Contact” held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense on 22-23 August 2013 – with a paper and a review article added at the end on themes pertaining to the aim and scope of the symposium. All papers cover central aspects of the early contact between Germanic and some of its Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistic neighbours; and, in certain cases, aspects involving internal Germanic language contact.
Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263131
Fulk’s Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.
Author : Jakob Sverdrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : German language
ISBN : UVA:X002220265
Author : Annemarie Wendicke
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640441440
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: B+, Hawai'i Pacific University, language: English, abstract: The English language as well as the German language belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, which includes most of the languages spoken in Europe. All languages go through a process of change as human beings do the same. It happens very often that they are the reason for a change such as the introduction of spelling and pronunciation rules. Some languages are only affected by minor sound changes but the major sound changes affect all languages as it affects the people, who speak this language. For instance, although the German language was also affected by Grimm’s Law as it is the most famous sound law in the history of linguistics, they reason why the German language, especially High German, differs so much from Low German and other Indo-European languages is the High German consonant shift or what it is called in German “zweite Lautverschiebung.” Consequently, the High German consonant shift is responsible for the development of the different dialects in the German-speaking nations.
Author : Hans Frede Nielsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : English language
ISBN : UVA:X001258207