The History Of Negation In The Languages Of Europe And The Mediterranean

Author : Anne Breitbarth,Christopher Lucas,David Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
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Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602544

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This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

Author : David Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199602537

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by David Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth Pdf

This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.

Author : David W.E. Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:897880125

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by David W.E. Willis,Christopher Lucas,Anne Breitbarth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0191758167

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

This is the first volume of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates typological, general, and theoretical research documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes.

Author : David Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985587318

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by David Willis Pdf

Author : Anne Breitbarth,Christopher Lucas,David Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191065200

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by Anne Breitbarth,Christopher Lucas,David Willis Pdf

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

Author : Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191510946

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The History of Low German Negation by Anne Breitbarth Pdf

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle, and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope, giving rise to negative concord along the way. Anne Breitbarth shows that developments in Low German form a missing link between those in High German, English, and Dutch, which have been much more widely researched. These changes are analysed using a generative account of syntactic change combined with minimalist assumptions concerning the syntax of negation and negative concord. The book provides the first substantial, diachronic analysis of the development of the expression of negation through the Old Saxon and Middle Low German periods, and will be of interest not only to students and researchers in the history of German, but also to all those working on the syntax of negation from a diachronic and synchronic perspective.

Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198830528

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The Oxford Handbook of Negation by Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal Pdf

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Author : Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103393

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The Negative Existential Cycle by Ljuba Veselinova,Arja Hamari Pdf

In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chadic and Indo-European. A number of articles focus on the micro-variation and attested historical developments within smaller groups and clusters such as Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nanaic. Finally, variation and historical developments in specific languages are discussed for Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Moksha-Mordvin (Uralic), Bashkir (Turkic), Kalmyk (Mongolic), three Pama-Nyungan languages, O’dam (Southern Uto-Aztecan) and Tacana (Takanan, Amazonian Bolivia). The book is concluded by two chapters devoted to modeling cyclical processes in language change from different theoretical perspectives. Key notions discussed throughout the book include affirmative and negative existential constructions, the expansion of the latter into verbal negation, and subsequently from more specific to more general markers of negation. Nominalizations as well as the uses of negative existentials as standalone negative answers figure among the most frequent pathways whereby negative existentials evolve as general negation markers. The operation of the Negative Existential Cycle appears partly genealogically conditioned, as the cycle is found to iterate regularly within some families but never starts in others, as is the case in Bantu. In addition, other special negation markers such as nominal negators are found to undergo similar processes, i.e. they expand into the verbal domain and thereby develop into more general negation markers. The book provides rich information on a specific path of the evolution of negation, on cyclical processes in language change, and it show-cases the historical-comparative method in a modern setting.

Author : Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110352306

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Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Chiara Gianollo,Agnes Jäger,Doris Penka Pdf

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.

Author : Giuliano Bernini,Paolo Ramat
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110819748

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Negative Sentences in the Languages of Europe by Giuliano Bernini,Paolo Ramat Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780198861461

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Diachronic Syntax by Anonim Pdf

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word order change, grammaticalization, and reanalysis - can be explored in terms of current minimalist theory and Universal Grammar. This new edition offers expanded coverage of a range of topics, including null subjects, the Final-over-Final Condition, the diachrony of wh-movement, the Tolerance Principle, and creoles and creolization, and explores further advances in the theory of parametric variation. Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading, and the book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of key terms. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, the volume will remain an ideal textbook for students of historical linguistics and a valuable reference for researchers and students in related areas such as syntax, comparative linguistics, language contact, and language acquisition.

Author : Ludovico Franco,Paolo Lorusso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501505201

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Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation by Ludovico Franco,Paolo Lorusso Pdf

In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.

Author : Muriel Norde,Freek Van de Velde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267474

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Exaptation and Language Change by Muriel Norde,Freek Van de Velde Pdf

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic exaptation, its demarcation from other processes of linguistic change, and indeed the question of whether it is a useful concept in historical linguistics at all. The contributions in the present volume reflect these diverging points of view. Along with a comprehensive introduction, covering the history of the notion of exaptation from its conception in the field of biology to its adoption in linguistics, the book offers extensive discussion of the concept from various theoretical perspectives, detailed case studies as well as critical reviews of some stock examples. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics.

Author : Matti Miestamo,Anne Tamm,Beáta Wagner-Nagy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268648

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Negation in Uralic Languages by Matti Miestamo,Anne Tamm,Beáta Wagner-Nagy Pdf

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.