The Cambridge Handbook Of Germanic Linguistics

Author : Michael T. Putnam,B. Richard Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 110843438X

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The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics by Michael T. Putnam,B. Richard Page Pdf

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages with relatively few speakers, such as Frisian, Yiddish and Pennsylvania German. Written by internationally renowned experts of Germanic linguistics, this Handbook provides a detailed overview and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects. Organized thematically, it addresses key topics in the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of standard and nonstandard varieties of Germanic languages from a comparative perspective. It also includes chapters on second language acquisition, heritage and minority languages, pidgins, and urban vernaculars. The first comprehensive survey of this vast topic, the Handbook is a vital resource for students and researchers investigating the Germanic family of languages and dialects.

Author : Wayne Harbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139461528

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The Germanic Languages by Wayne Harbert Pdf

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 : Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009115766

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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact by Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar Pdf

Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - starts with the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes. It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.

Author : Neil G. Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 052177215X

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Yiddish by Neil G. Jacobs Pdf

This 2005 book was the first ever overview of all aspects of Yiddish language and lingustics.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1687 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316839454

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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics by Raymond Hickey Pdf

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.

Author : Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108719996

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The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics by Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky Pdf

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Author : Gema Chocano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 902723373X

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Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form by Gema Chocano Pdf

'Scrambling', the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic 'Object Shift'. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German data, it also sheds light on several problematic aspects of the grammar of this language, which have traditionally resisted a principled account. Prominent among these are: the inconsistent behaviour of German coherent infinitives with respect to extraction of their internal arguments; the existence of a less 'liberal' type of 'Scrambling' within topicalised VPs; the link between reordering possibilities and headfinalness; the asymmetry exhibited by monotransitive and ditransitive structures with respect to the interaction between 'Scrambling' and the unmarked word order, and, finally, certain anomalies in the reordering of the lower arguments of ditransitive predicates that assign inherent case.

Author : Michael T. Putnam
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205902

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Studies on German-language Islands by Michael T. Putnam Pdf

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or "Sprachinseln," throughout the world. The individual topics of study in this volume focus on various aspects of these German-language islands such as (but not limited to) phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of these languages under investigation. Collectively, the body of research contained in this volume explores significantly under-researched topics in the fields of language contact and language attrition and illustrates how this on-going research can be enhanced through the application of formal theoretical frameworks and structural analyses.

Author : Dianne Jonas
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405151137

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Handbook of Germanic Linguistics by Dianne Jonas Pdf

Author : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198

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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Author : Evangelia Adamou,Yaron Matras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351109147

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact by Evangelia Adamou,Yaron Matras Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa.

Author : Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108800532

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The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics by Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky Pdf

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263131

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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by R.D. Fulk Pdf

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 : B. Roger Maylor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230617

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Lexical Template Morphology by B. Roger Maylor Pdf

While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to other areas of the grammar. The templates provide the means whereby a State/Change of State feature interacts with Figure and Ground arguments to generate prefixed verbs, noun- and adjective-incorporating verbs, and oblique case marking on the complements of simplex verbs and adjectives. This book presents a new and potentially powerful theory of lexical morphology that will be of interest not only to morphologists and those working on the grammar of German, but also syntacticians working on the Locative and Dative Alternations, and linguists whose prime concern is the organization of the lexicon, and the realization of the semantics of change of state predicates.

Author : Orrin W. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134848997

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Old English and its Closest Relatives by Orrin W. Robinson Pdf

This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similarities and differences. The Languages covered include:Gothic Old Norse Old SaxonOld English Old Low Franconian Old High German Written in a lively style, each chapter opens with a brief cultural history of the people who used the language, followed by selected authentic and translated texts and an examination of particular areas including grammar, pronunciation, lexis, dialect variation and borrowing, textual transmission, analogy and drift.