Studies In Historical Ibero Romance Morpho Syntax

Author : Miriam Bouzouita,Ioanna Sitaridou,Enrique Pato
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264312

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Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax by Miriam Bouzouita,Ioanna Sitaridou,Enrique Pato Pdf

This volume features fourteen papers by leading specialists on various aspects of historical morpho-syntax in the Ibero-Romance languages. In these papers, fine-grained analyses are developed to capture the richness of undiscussed or —often— previously unknown data. Comparative across the (Ibero-)Romance languages and diverse in terms of the approaches considered, ranging from cognitive-functionalist to generativist to variationist, they combine in this volume to showcase the merits of different, yet complementary, perspectives in understanding linguistic variation and language change. The gamut of phenomena scrutinised varies from morpho-phonological puzzles and word-formation to syntax and interface-related phenomena to, as a coda, methodological suggestions for future research in old Ibero-Romance; thus making it ideal reading for scholars and postgraduate students alike.

Author : Randall Scott Gess,Deborah Arteaga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Steven N. Dworkin,Dieter Wanner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Alice Corr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192598509

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The Grammar of the Utterance by Alice Corr Pdf

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and particles; and ii) illocutionary complementizers, items that look like subordinators but behave differently. Alice Corr argues that the behaviour of these conversation-oriented items provides insight into how language-as-grammar builds the universe of discourse. The approach identifies the underlying unity in how different Ibero-Romance languages, alongside their Romance cousins and Latin ancestors, use grammar to refer - i.e. to connect our inner world to the one outside - and the empirical arguments are underpinned by the philosophical position that the configurational architecture of grammar also configures the architecture of the mind. The book thus builds on existing work on the syntax of discourse not only by contributing new empirical and theoretical insights, but also by pursuing explanatory adequacy via a so-called 'un-Cartesian' grammar of reference. In so doing, it formalizes the intuition that language users do things not with words, but with grammar. Drawing on a wealth of naturalistic data from social media and online corpora, augmented by elicited introspective judgements, The Grammar of the Utterance offers new insights into the colloquial grammar and morphosyntactic variation of (Ibero-)Romance, and showcases the utility of comparative work on this language family in advancing our empirical and conceptual understanding of the organization of grammar.

Author : Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377088

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Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax by Andreas Dufter,Elisabeth Stark Pdf

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

Author : Thomas D. Cravens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247391

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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 : Miriam Bouzouita,Anne Breitbarth,Elisabeth Witzenhausen,Lieven Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198824961

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Cycles in Language Change by Miriam Bouzouita,Anne Breitbarth,Elisabeth Witzenhausen,Lieven Danckaert Pdf

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can then develop along exactly the same pathway. But cyclical changes have also been observed in language change outside of grammaticalization proper. The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan. The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars interested in language variation and change more broadly.

Author : Mario Saltarelli,Dieter Wanner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811827

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Diachronic Studies in Romance Linguistics by Mario Saltarelli,Dieter Wanner Pdf

Author : Silvio Cruschina,Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199678860

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The Boundaries of Pure Morphology by Silvio Cruschina,Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith Pdf

In a series of pioneering explorations of the diachrony of morphomes, this book throws new light on the nature of the morphome and the boundary - seen from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives - between what is and is not genuinely autonomous in morphology. Its findings will be of central interest to morphologists of all theoretical stripes.

Author : Karen Van Hoek,Andrej A. Kibrik,Leo Noordman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289490

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Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics by Karen Van Hoek,Andrej A. Kibrik,Leo Noordman Pdf

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis. The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of discourse particles in Dutch, and the function of prosody as a marker of text structure in spoken narratives. The papers illustrate the potential of the emerging cognitive linguistic paradigm to provide fresh, revealing insights in the study of discourse.

Author : Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199589982

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Morphological Autonomy by Martin Maiden Pdf

This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this independent component and which phenomena can be described or explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic structure in language change in general.

Author : Deborah L. Arteaga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030110062

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Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory by Deborah L. Arteaga Pdf

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Spanish. Other chapters focus on diachronic topics on French and Italian. The volume will be of interest to researchers looking for current research in linguistics on the Romance languages. It will also serve as a reference volume or supplemental reading for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics.

Author : Chiyo Nishida,Jean-Pierre Montreuil
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247896

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New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics by Chiyo Nishida,Jean-Pierre Montreuil Pdf

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote address delivered by Denis Bouchard on exaptation and linguistic explanation, as well as seventeen contributions by emerging and internationally recognized scholars of Spanish, French, Italian, as well as Rumanian. While the emphasis bears on formal analyses, the coverage is remarkably broad, as topics range from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acquisition. Each article seeks to represent a new perspective on these topics and a variety of frameworks and concepts are exploited: distributive morphology, entailment theory, grammaticalization, information structure, left-periphery, polarity lattice, spatial individuation, thematic hierarchy, etc. This volume will challenge anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics.

Author : Luis Fernando Vázquez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1425892330

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Expressions of Presence in Ibero-Romance by Luis Fernando Vázquez Pdf

This dissertation is a historical examination of the distribution patterns of copulae, specifically ser, estar, and haber/haver, within the context of Ibero-Romance languages. Employing a multidimensional qualitative approach, the study conducts an in-depth analysis of their usage across various grammatical structures, encompassing sentences, phrases, and clauses. The theoretical framework primarily adopts a functional perspective centred around information structure and information status whilst also incorporating semantics, morphology, and syntax considerations. The investigation strategically focuses on the Castilian (Spanish), Portuguese, Catalan, and Aragonese languages. Chapter one is an inductive exploration of influential syntax, semantics, and pragmatics studies, establishing the theoretical foundations underpinning subsequent data analysis. Chapter two initiates with a brief discussion on existential and locative constructions in Latin, followed by a qualitative analysis of early Castilian and early Portuguese samples. Chapter three parallels the structure of chapter two by presenting data from early Catalan and early Aragonese. Throughout chapters two and three, relevant theoretical notions, including those previously introduced in chapter one, are integrated into the discussion. Finally, chapter four expands upon previous observations and proposals, offering avenues for further investigation and consolidating the principal conclusions derived from the preceding chapters. This research advances the field of Romance linguistics by conducting a re-evaluation of the taxonomy concerning locative and existential constructions within the framework of Ibero-Romance languages. Our argument asserts that despite their apparent differences in informational status, these constructions inherently share a common underlying informational structure and historical foundation. Moreover, we propose that the disappearance of the proform in Western Ibero-Romance catalysed a significant transformation in the usage of copulae for expressing existence and location in modern varieties. As a result, we identify three distinct categories: 1) General Presence, 2) Stage-level, and 3) Locative Presence, which present a novel model for the unification of presence expression.

Author : Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285386

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Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics by Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.