Morphology And Language History

Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248145

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Morphology and Language History by Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli Pdf

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110823127

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Historical Morphology by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.

Author : Don Ringe
Publisher : Edinburgh Textbooks on the Eng
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1474459773

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A Historical Morphology of English by Don Ringe Pdf

A detailed survey of how English morphology has evolved from Old English to the present

Author : Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474428989

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Introduction to English Morphology by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy Pdf

What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English. He explains the various ways in which words are related to one another, and shows how the history of the English language has affected word structure. Topics include: words, sentences and dictionaries; a word and its parts (roots and affixes); a word and its forms (inflection); a word and its relatives (derivation); compound words; word structure; productivity; and the historical sources of English word formation. Requiring no prior linguistic training, this textbook is suitable for undergraduate students of English - literature or language - and provides a sound basis for further linguistic study.

Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290960

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Morphology and Language History by Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli Pdf

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0748617043

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Introducing Linguistic Morphology by Laurie Bauer Pdf

An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the internal structure of words through to advanced issues of current controversy.

Author : Kenneth Shields
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235886

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A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology by Kenneth Shields Pdf

This book explores the origin and evolution of important grammatical categories of the Indo-European verb, including the markers of person, tense, number, aspect, and mood. Its central thesis is that many of these markers can be traced to original deictic particles which were incorporated into verbal structures in order to indicate the 'hic and nunc' and various degrees of remoteness from the 'hic and nunc'. The alterations to which these deictic elements were subject are viewed here in the context of an Indo-European language very different from Brugmannian Indo-European, many features of which, it is argued, appeared only in the period of dialectal development. This book challenges numerous traditional proposals about the Indo-European verb; all reconstructions contained in it are firmly based on extant data and are consonant with established principles of linguistic change.

Author : Teresa Fanego,María José López-Couso,Javier Pérez-Guerra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027247315

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English Historical Syntax and Morphology by Teresa Fanego,María José López-Couso,Javier Pérez-Guerra Pdf

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.

Author : Martin Maiden,Adina Dragomirescu,Gabriela Pană Dindelegan,Rodica Zafiu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198829485

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The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology by Martin Maiden,Adina Dragomirescu,Gabriela Pană Dindelegan,Rodica Zafiu Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive account of the development of the Romanian morphological system. Romanian is one of the most morphologically complex Romance languages, but has remained relatively understudied compared with better-known languages such as French and Spanish. Following an introduction that provides an outline of the history of Romanian, its writing system and major typological characteristics, and the major patterns of allomorphy, chapters in this volume explore a range of fascinatingly complex aspects of Romanian grammar whose structure and history have to date been largely inaccessible to the English-speaking world. Among the most distinctive morphological characteristics of Romanian discussed by the authors are its inflexional case system; the highly unpredictable formation of the plural; the existence of a non-finite verb form that appears to be the continuation of the Latin supine; the near-absence of distinctive subjunctive morphology; and the complex patterns of allomorphy brought about by successive sound change. The frequently controversial origins of many of these developments have important implications for broader historical Romance linguistics and indeed for morphological theory more generally.

Author : Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199668984

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The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring,Francesca Masini Pdf

Morphology, the science of words, is a complex theoretical landscape, where a multitude of frameworks, each with their own tenets and formalism, compete for the explanation of linguistic facts. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory is a comprehensive guide through this jungle of morphological theories. It provides a rich and up-to-date overview of theoretical frameworks, from Structuralism to Optimality Theory and from Minimalism to Construction Morphology...

Author : Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 0748636870

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A Historical Morphology of English by Dieter Kastovsky Pdf

Author : Nicola Grandi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748681778

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Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology by Nicola Grandi Pdf

Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology

Author : Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521422566

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Morphology by Peter Hugoe Matthews Pdf

Originally published in 1974, this updated and substantially revised edition includes chapters on inflectional and lexical morphology, derivational processes and productivity, compounds, paradigms, and much new material on markedness and other aspects of iconicity.

Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895491

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Introducing Morphology by Rochelle Lieber Pdf

A lively introduction to the study of how words are put together.

Author : Martine Vanhove,Thomas Stolz,Aina Urdze,Hitomi Otsuka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783050057699

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Morphologies in Contact by Martine Vanhove,Thomas Stolz,Aina Urdze,Hitomi Otsuka Pdf

This collection of articles takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David Wilkins in 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words. On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology. The 14 papers of the present volume shed new light on the behavior of morphology under the conditions of language contact. Fresh empirical data from 40 languages world-wide are presented and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.