Manual Of Romance Languages In Africa

Author : Ursula Reutner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110628869

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Manual of Romance Languages in Africa by Ursula Reutner Pdf

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.

Author : Ursula Reutner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110626179

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Manual of Romance Languages in Africa by Ursula Reutner Pdf

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.

Author : Kristina Bedijs,Christiane Maaß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110314755

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Manual of Romance Languages in the Media by Kristina Bedijs,Christiane Maaß Pdf

This manual provides an extensive overview of the importance and use of Romance languages in the media, both in a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its chapters discuss language in television and the new media, the language of advertising, or special cases such as translation platforms or subtitling. Separate chapters are dedicated to minority languages and smaller varieties such as Galician and Picard, and to methodological approaches such as linguistic discourse analysis and writing process research.

Author : M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351599672

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The Bantu Languages of Africa by M. A. Bryan Pdf

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.

Author : Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110317732

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Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages by Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano Pdf

Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.

Author : Franz Lebsanft,Felix Tacke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110456066

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Manual of Standardization in the Romance Languages by Franz Lebsanft,Felix Tacke Pdf

Language standardization is an ongoing process based on the notions of linguistic correctness and models. This manual contains thirty-six chapters that deal with the theories of linguistic norms and give a comprehensive up-to-date description and analysis of the standardization processes in the Romance languages. The first section presents the essential approaches to the concept of linguistic norm ranging from antiquity to the present, and includes individual chapters on the notion of linguistic norms and correctness in classical grammar and rhetoric, in the Prague School, in the linguistic theory of Eugenio Coseriu, in sociolinguistics as well as in pragmatics, cognitive and discourse linguistics. The second section focuses on the application of these notions with respect to the Romance languages. It examines in detail the normative grammar and the normative dictionary as the reference tools for language codification and modernization of those languages that have a long and well-established written tradition, i.e. Romanian, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese. Furthermore, the volume offers a discussion of the key issues regarding the standardization of the ‘minor’ Romance languages as well as Creoles.

Author : Christiane Fäcke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110302257

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Manual of Language Acquisition by Christiane Fäcke Pdf

This manual contains overviews on language acquisition and distinguishes between first- and second-language acquisition. It also deals with Romance languages as foreign languages in the world and with language acquisition in some countries of the Romance-speaking world. This reference work will be helpful for researchers, students, and teachers interested in language acquisition in general and in Romance languages in particular.

Author : Cécile de Cat,Katherine Demuth
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290670

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The Bantu–Romance Connection by Cécile de Cat,Katherine Demuth Pdf

This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal morphology and agreement, the structure of DPs, and word order/information structure, with the goal of providing a better understanding of the structure of the different languages investigated, and the implications this holds for syntactic theory more generally. All of the papers draw on data from both Bantu and Romance languages, providing a framework for much-needed further comparative research on the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints, and the implications this has for learnability/acquisition. The volume also provides an important precedent for incorporating insights from Bantu linguistic structure into mainstream of syntax research.

Author : Diedrich Westermann,Margaret Arminel Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000310100

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The Languages of West Africa by Diedrich Westermann,Margaret Arminel Bryan Pdf

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Diedrich Westermann,M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351600507

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The Languages of West Africa by Diedrich Westermann,M. A. Bryan Pdf

This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are related to one another, though a certain degree of homogeneity appears.

Author : A Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429868344

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The Language Families Of Africa by A Werner Pdf

Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:937458333

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The Languages of West Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Needham Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : African languages
ISBN : BSB:BSB11646357

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A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa by Robert Needham Cust Pdf

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.