Reconstructing Non Standard Languages

Author : Lenore A. Grenoble,Jessica Kantarovich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257345

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Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages by Lenore A. Grenoble,Jessica Kantarovich Pdf

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian, a southern Russian contact variety with Yiddish and Ukrainian elements, and Russian lexifier pidgins illustrate the reconstruction process, which involves making the most of all available documentation, particularly literature and stereotypical descriptions. Historical sociolinguistics of this kind straddles the fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and contact; this book brings together the methods and theories of these areas to show how they can result in a rich reconstruction of linguistic and socially-conditioned variation. We reconstruct the circumstances and social settings that produced this variation, and demonstrate how to reconstruct which variants were used by different types of speakers under different circumstances, and what kinds of social identities they indexed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004392007

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Reconstructing Syntax by Anonim Pdf

During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.

Author : Thomas D. Cravens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285256

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Variation and Reconstruction by Thomas D. Cravens Pdf

The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.

Author : Anthony Fox
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198700016

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Linguistic Reconstruction by Anthony Fox Pdf

"Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.

Author : Claire Bowern,Bethwyn Evans,Luisa Miceli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004508873

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Variation, Contact, and Reconstruction in the Ancient Indo-European Languages by Anonim Pdf

This book reflects the vibrancy of historical linguistics, showing how research on ancient Indo-European languages contributes to the understanding of the principles and patterns of language organization and change, including studies on typologically natural tendencies and cognitive universals.

Author : Martin Salzmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512202

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Reconstruction and Resumption in Indirect A‘-Dependencies by Martin Salzmann Pdf

This monograph investigates A’-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The study focuses on relative clauses and shows that an important part of the relativization system in these languages, long relativization, involves a hitherto ignored construction termed resumptive prolepsis. This construction is characterized by base-generation of the operator in the matrix middle-field and a resumptive pronoun in the position of the variable. It is shown that it involves short A’-movement in the matrix clause, empty operator movement in the complement clause and an ellipsis operation that links the two operators. While the link is directly visible in German and Dutch, Swiss German provides a more abstract version of resumptive prolepsis. Through a detailed examination of reconstruction effects and the properties of resumption in these constructions, the book provides new evidence for the role of ellipsis in A’-movement and for a base-generation analysis of resumption. More generally, it makes an important contribution to the modeling of long-distance dependencies and the study of A'-syntax.

Author : Juliette Blevins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429000263

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Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction with Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis by Juliette Blevins Pdf

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics. Building on a long tradition of Basque scholarship, the comparative method and internal reconstruction, informed by the phonetic bases of sound change and phonological typology, are used to explain previously underappreciated alternations and asymmetries in Basque sound patterns, resulting in a radically new view of the proto-language. The comparative method is then used to compare this new Proto-Basque with Proto-Indo-European, revealing regular sound correspondences in basic vocabulary and grammatical formatives. Evaluation of these results supports a distant genetic relationship between Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European, and offers new insights into specific linguistic properties of these two ancient languages. This comprehensive volume, which includes a detailed appendix including Proto-Basque/Proto-Indo-European cognate sets, will be of general interest to linguists, archeologists, historians, and geneticists, and of particular interest to scholars in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, language change, and Basque and Indo-European studies.

Author : Spike Gildea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298560

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Reconstructing Grammar by Spike Gildea Pdf

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights.

Author : Henry M. Hoenigswald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:49015000467937

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Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction by Henry M. Hoenigswald Pdf

Author : Georg Rehm,Thierry Declerck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319737065

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Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age by Georg Rehm,Thierry Declerck Pdf

This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully selected from 36 submissions. Topics covered include text processing of the German language, online media and online content, semantics and reasoning, sentiment analysis, and semantic web description languages.

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781009346382

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Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic by H. Ekkehard Wolff Pdf

Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.

Author : Piera Molinelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110552591

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Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings by Piera Molinelli Pdf

This book explores the linguistic expression of identity, intended as the social positioning of self and others, by focusing mostly on a scenario of prolonged language contact, namely the ancient Mediterranean area. The volume includes studies on language contact and on identity strategies developed at different levels of analysis, from phonetics to pragmatics, in, among others, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac, (Cypriot) Arabic, Medieval Sardinian.

Author : N.E. Collinge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134977178

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An Encyclopedia of Language by N.E. Collinge Pdf

* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history * Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names * Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text `This rich repository of information on all aspects of language is a must for all libraries in higher education, schools and larger public libraries.' - Library Review `Each article has an excellent bibliography. In addition, there are comprehensive indexes of topics and technical terms and names. Highly recommended for all college and general public libraries.' - Choice `This important book is in many ways a state-of-the -art survey of current conceptions of, and approaches to, language, with generous references to more detailed sources. Each chapter has a good bibliography.' - Language International `A comprehensive guide ... with very thorough bibliographies ... Collinge's Encyclopedia is recommended to academic libraries.' - Reference Reviews `The bibliographies are an invaluable aid ... the editor is to be congratulated for having done an excellent job ... there are virtually no areas of language and linguistics that do not get a look in somewhere, and there is good signposting in the text itself.' - Nigel Vincent, Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : George Walkden
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198712299

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Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic by George Walkden Pdf

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.