The Cambridge Handbook Of Romance Linguistics

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521800723

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

This Cambridge history is the definitive guide to the comparative history of the Romance languages. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance).

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521800730

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521800730

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055443652

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

Author : Grant Goodall
Publisher : Cambridge Handbooks in Languag
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108474801

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The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax by Grant Goodall Pdf

The first of its kind, this Handbook provides an in-depth overview of all current issues and trends in experimental syntax.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316720585

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax by Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts Pdf

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

Author : Martin Maiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2012047375

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“The” Cambridge History of the Romance Languages by Martin Maiden Pdf

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394337

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Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Janice Carruthers Pdf

The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.

Author : Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009115773

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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 - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.

Author : Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110550283

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Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology by Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg Pdf

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.

Author : Danko Šipka,Wayles Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108967907

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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics by Danko Šipka,Wayles Browne Pdf

The linguistic study of the Slavic language family, with its rich syntactic and phonological structures, complex writing systems, and diverse socio-historical context, is a rapidly growing research area. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook provides a systematic review of cutting-edge research in Slavic linguistics. It covers phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexicology, and sociolinguistics, and presents multiple theoretical perspectives, including synchronic and diachronic. Each chapter addresses a particular linguistic feature pertinent to Slavic languages, and covers the development of the feature from Proto-Slavic to present-day Slavic languages, the main findings in historical and ongoing research devoted to the feature, and a summary of the current state of the art in the field and what the directions of future research will be. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in theoretical linguistics, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics and Slavic/East European Studies.

Author : Chu-Ren Huang,Yen-Hwei Lin,I-Hsuan Chen,Yu-Yin Hsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108349666

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The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics by Chu-Ren Huang,Yen-Hwei Lin,I-Hsuan Chen,Yu-Yin Hsu Pdf

The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and its diverse socio-historical background, is already a long-established and vast research area. With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. Chapters are divided into four thematic areas: writing systems and the neuro-cognitive processing of Chinese, morpho-lexical structures, phonetic and phonological characteristics, and issues in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. By following a context-driven approach, it shows how theoretical issues in Chinese linguistics can be resolved with empirical evidence and argumentation, and provides a range of different perspectives. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies involving the Chinese language. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the fascinating field of Chinese linguistics.

Author : Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521800722

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures by Martin Maiden,John Charles Smith,Adam Ledgeway Pdf

This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.