The Languages And Linguistics Of Europe

Author : Bernd Kortmann,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220254

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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe by Bernd Kortmann,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Open publication> The Languages and Linguistics ofEurope: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduatereadership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197099

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Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe by Östen Dahl 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 : Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191538117

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The Changing Languages of Europe by Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva Pdf

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe's 150 or so languages including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The changes are by no means restricted to lexical borrowing but involve every grammatical aspect of the language. They are usually so minute that neither native speakers nor trained linguists notice them. But they accumulate and give rise to new grammatical structures that lead in turn to new patterns of areal relationship. Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe. The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change.

Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139469326

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The Ancient Languages of Europe by Roger D. Woodard Pdf

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

Author : Guus Extra,Durk Gorter
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853595098

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The Other Languages of Europe by Guus Extra,Durk Gorter Pdf

The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521535867

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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke Pdf

This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853598119

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Language Planning and Policy in Europe by Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf Pdf

This volume covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.

Author : Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110542431

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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz Pdf

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

Author : Andrii Danylenko,Motoki Nomachi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110639223

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Slavic on the Language Map of Europe by Andrii Danylenko,Motoki Nomachi Pdf

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages

Author : James Clackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139467346

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Indo-European Linguistics by James Clackson Pdf

The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of the Indo-European languages. It clearly sets out the methods for relating the languages to one another, presents an engaging discussion of the current debates and controversies concerning their classification, and offers sample problems and suggestions for how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary, almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are clearly laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion points, and a range of exercises, this text will be an essential toolkit for all those studying historical linguistics, language typology and the Indo-European languages for the first time.

Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812206

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Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe by Anna Siewierska Pdf

Author : Gaston Dorren
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802190949

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Lingo by Gaston Dorren Pdf

Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

Author : Robert Phillipson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134443499

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English-Only Europe? by Robert Phillipson Pdf

English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals with multilingualism has serious implications for both individual member countries and international relations. In this book, Robert Phillipson considers whether the contemporary expansion of English represents a serious threat to other European languages. After exploring the implications of current policies, Phillipson argues the case for more active language policies to safeguard a multilingual Europe. Drawing on examples of countries with explicit language policies such as Canada and South Africa, the book sets out Phillipson's vision of an inclusive language policy for Europe, and describes how it can be attained.

Author : Guus Extra,Durk Gorter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208351

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Multilingual Europe by Guus Extra,Durk Gorter Pdf

This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages. Although "celebrating linguistic diversity" is one of the key propositions in the European discourse on multilingualism and language policies, this device holds for these three types of languages in a decreasing order. All three types of languages, however, are constituent parts of a multilingual European identity and should be taken into account in any type of language policy. Both facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education are addressed in case studies at the national and European level. The selection of case studies is based on a careful weighing of geographical spread of countries and languages across Europe on the one hand, and availability of established expert knowledge on the other. After an Introduction to the theme of the book (Guus Extra and Durk Gorter), Part I deals with official state languages with a focus on the spread of English as lingua franca across Europe (Juliane House), on French and France (Dennis Ager), on Polish in Poland and abroad (Justyna Lesniewśka), and on language constellations in the Baltic States (Gabrielle Hogan-Brun). Part II deals with regional minority languages with a focus on Catalan in Spain (Francesc Xavier Vila i Moreno), Frisian in the Netherlands (Durk Gorter et al.), Hungarian as a minority language in Central Europe (Susan Gal), and Saami in the Nordic countries (Mikael Svonni). Part III deals with immigrant minority languages in the United Kingdom (Viv Edwards), Sweden (Lilian Nygren-Junkin), Italy (Monica Barni and Carla Bagna) and Europe at large (Guus Extra and Kutlay Yağmur).

Author : Glanville Price
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0631220399

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Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe by Glanville Price Pdf

This is an authoritative reference guide to all the languages of Europe, covering nearly three hundred languages and language families. It focuses on extant languages but includes all languages known to have been spoken in Europe in the past. Speech varieties whose status as dialects rather than languages is a matter of debate either have separate entries or are considered under other headings, with appropriate cross references. The encyclopedia includes entries on non-European languages now spoken by substantial communities in Europe (such as Punjabi and Chinese in Britain and Arabic in France) and on the major non-Latin alphabets used for the transcription of European languages. The aim of the book is to provide surveys of the origins, historical development and, in the case of living languages, contemporary position of each language. Bibliographical addenda to articles list grammars, dictionaries, and works on historical and sociolinguistic topics. Written by an international team of scholars, many of them among the foremost authorities in their field, the Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe is of interest to all those involved in the study of language, linguistics or cultural history.