The Diachrony Of Differential Object Marking In Romanian

Author : Virginia Hill,Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192654090

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The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian by Virginia Hill,Alexandru Mardale Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means by which a grammar distinguishes between objects based on semantic features such as animacy or definiteness, has been a fruitful area of research in syntax, historical linguistics, and typology. In this volume, Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale demonstrate that Romanian DOM reflects a typological mix of Balkan and Romance patterns, and is in fact composed of three distinct mechanisms. Their analysis of these mechanisms reveals that DOM triggers in Romanian are located in the nominal domain, in contrast to languages such as Spanish, where they are located in the verbal domain. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted in the volume sheds light on existing typologies of DOM, particularly in relation to the variation observed in the merging location of the DOM particle and of the doubling pronominal clitic.

Author : Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249722

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Differential Object Marking in Romance by Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale Pdf

Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.

Author : Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258298

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 by Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni Pdf

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops). The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance languages or dialects, in either synchronic or diachronic perspective, and pay particular attention to the variation and the actual variability that is at stake, not only in syntax and morpho-syntax but also in semantics and phonology. Beyond the discussion of differences between languages and/or dialects from a formalist perspective, the volume also contains a number of papers linking the theme of variation to sociolinguistic issues such as natural bilingualism and micro-contact.

Author : Alexandru Mardale,Silvina Montrul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261090

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The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Alexandru Mardale,Silvina Montrul Pdf

Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has disappeared from others; it is easily acquired by monolingual children, but presents high instability and variability in bilingual acquisition and language contact situations. This edited collection contributes to further our understanding of the nature and development of DOM in the languages of the world, in acquisition, and in language contact, variation, and change. The thirteen chapters in this volume present new empirical data from Estonian, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, Hindi, Romanian and Basque in different acquisition contexts and learner populations. They also bring together multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives to account for the complexity and dynamicity of this widespread linguistic phenomenon.

Author : Gabriela Alboiu,Daniela Isac,Alexandru Nicolae
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9786061613557

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A Life in Linguistics by Gabriela Alboiu,Daniela Isac,Alexandru Nicolae Pdf

Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.

Author : Barbara E. Bullock,Cinzia Russi,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783961104055

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A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages by Barbara E. Bullock,Cinzia Russi,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Pdf

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting.

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107133372

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Native Speakers, Interrupted by Silvina Montrul Pdf

A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Philipp Obrist,Albert Wall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110716238

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Differential Object Marking in Romance by Johannes Kabatek,Philipp Obrist,Albert Wall Pdf

After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this “third wave” of studies on DOM in Romance.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Romance languages
ISBN : 9780198870807

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Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony by Adam Ledgeway,John Charles Smith,Nigel Vincent Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Author : Johannes Kabatek,Philipp Obrist,Albert Wall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110716207

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Differential Object Marking in Romance by Johannes Kabatek,Philipp Obrist,Albert Wall Pdf

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt. Zur Begutachtung können eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie. Mögliche Publikationssprachen sind Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumänisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbände sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich möglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.

Author : Frederik Hartmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198872740

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Germanic Phylogeny by Frederik Hartmann Pdf

This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using agent-based simulation of speech communities over time. This new method is presented alongside more traditional phylogenetic inference, and the respective results are compared and evaluated. Frederik Hartmann demonstrates that the traditional and novel methods each capture different aspects of this highly complex real-world process; crucially, the new computational approach proposed here offers a new way of investigating the wave-like properties of language relatedness that were previously less accessible. As well as validating the findings of earlier research, the results of this study also generate new insights and shed light on much-debated issues in the field. The conclusion is that the break-up of Germanic should be understood as a gradual disintegration process in which tree-like branching effects are rare.

Author : Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111248998

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Romance motion verbs in language change by Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger Pdf

Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198864318

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Syntactic Change in French by Sam Wolfe Pdf

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel analysis of the major syntactic developments in the history of French. The empirical scope of the volume is exceptionally broad, and includes discussion of syntactic variation and change in Latin, Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Classical French, and standard and non-standard varieties of Modern French. Following an introduction to the general trends in grammatical change from Latin to French, Sam Wolfe explores a wide range of phenomena including the left periphery, subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, negation, and the makeup of the nominal expression. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of how French has come to develop the unique typological profile it has within Romance today. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory and historical linguistics more broadly.

Author : Barbara Egedi,Veronika Hegedüs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Functionalism (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9780198871538

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Functional Heads Across Time by Barbara Egedi,Veronika Hegedüs Pdf

This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. Structural developments are explained in terms of the reanalysis of parts of the functional sequences in the clausal, nominal, and adpositional domains, through changes in parameter settings and feature specifications. The chapters discuss 'microdiachronic' syntactic changes that often have implications for large-scale syntactic effects, such as word order variation, the emergence (and lexicalization) of syntactic projections, grammaticalization, and changes in information-structural properties. The volume contains both case studies of individual languages, such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena, based primarily on digital corpora of historical and dialectal data.

Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192693174

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Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics by Jonathan Owens Pdf

This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a multiple pathways approach to Arabic language history. Arabic has multifarious sources: its relations to other Semitic languages, an old epigraphic and papyrological tradition, a vibrant and linguistically original classical Arabic linguistic tradition, and a widely dispersed array of contemporary spoken varieties. These diverse sources present a challenge to and an opportunity for defining a holistic but not necessarily linear Arabic language history. The geographical breadth and chronological depth of Arabic make it a fertile ground for a critical appraisal and application of perspectives from a range of subdisciplines including sociolinguistics, typology, grammaticalization, and corpus linguistics. Jonathan Owens draws on these approaches to investigate more than 20 individual case studies that cover more than 1500 years of documented and reconstructed history: the results demonstrate that Arabic is a far more complex historical object than traditional accounts have assumed. This complexity is further explored in a comparison of the historical morphology of three languages that can be compared over roughly the same period (500 AD-2022 AD): Icelandic, English, and Arabic. Icelandic and English are diametrically opposed on a parameter of linearity. Icelandic is effectively alinear: the morphology of the earliest Icelandic writings is the morphology of today. English is linear, having undergone a drastic change in morphology from its Old English stage to the Middle English period. Arabic is shown to be alinear in many important respects, but multilinear in others, with different sorts of linguistic changes being spread across many individual historical speech communities.