The Lexical Basis Of Grammatical Borrowing

Author : Ruth King
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
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Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299512

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This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Author : Ruth Elizabeth King
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027237166

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The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing by Ruth Elizabeth King Pdf

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Author : Yaron Matras,Jeanette Sakel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199192

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Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Yaron Matras,Jeanette Sakel Pdf

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).

Author : Martin Haspelmath,Uri Tadmor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110218435

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Loanwords in the World's Languages by Martin Haspelmath,Uri Tadmor Pdf

"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.

Author : Martin Haspelmath,Uri Tadmor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110218442

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Loanwords in the World's Languages by Martin Haspelmath,Uri Tadmor Pdf

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.

Author : Shana Poplack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190256388

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Borrowing by Shana Poplack Pdf

This book focuses on the process of lexical borrowing: how bilinguals introduce and adapt foreign items into recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Building on more than three decades of original research, Shana Poplack demystifies the phenomenon of borrowing as practiced by bilinguals in the context of theirspeech communities.

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Marjatta Palander,Esa Penttilä
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294043

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Dialects Across Borders by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Marjatta Palander,Esa Penttilä Pdf

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI, August 2002, Joensuu). The theme for this conference was “Dialects across borders”. The selection of contributions included in this volume demonstrates how various kinds of borders exert major influence on linguistic behaviour all over the world. The articles have been grouped according to whether they deal primarily with the linguistic outcomes of political and historical borders between states (Part I); various kinds of social and regional boundaries, including borders in a metaphorical sense, i.e. social barriers and mental or cognitive boundaries (Part II); and finally, boundaries between languages (Part III).

Author : Poplack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0190256400

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Back to Borrowing by Poplack Pdf

Author : Thomas C Scott-Phillips,Mónica Tamariz,Erica A Cartmill,James R Hurford
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814401517

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The Evolution of Language by Thomas C Scott-Phillips,Mónica Tamariz,Erica A Cartmill,James R Hurford Pdf

Proceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field. Contents:Evolutionary Parallels between Language and Tool Use (Michael A Arbib)Cortico–Cortical and Cortico–Cerebellar Computations in Language Change (Giorgos P Argyropoulos)The Case for Neanderthal Language — How Strong is It? (Sverker Johansson)Meanings of Touching Object Parts in Pointing (Harumi Kobayashi and Tetsuya Yasuda)Robustness as a Design Feature of Speech Communication (Bodo Winter and Morten H Christiansen)The Exponent of Zipf's Law in Language Ontogeny (Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Brita Elvevåg)and other papers Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers working on the evolution of language, artificial intelligence, genetics and psychology. Keywords:Language Evolution;Evolution of Language;EVOLANG;Linguistics

Author : Thomas C. Scott-Phillips,Monica Tamariz,Erica A. Cartmill
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789814401494

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The Evolution of Language by Thomas C. Scott-Phillips,Monica Tamariz,Erica A. Cartmill Pdf

The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field.

Author : Dieter Wunderlich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197815

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Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon by Dieter Wunderlich Pdf

The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences.

Author : Andrea Calabrese,Leo Wetzels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248237

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Loan Phonology by Andrea Calabrese,Leo Wetzels Pdf

For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena."

Author : Stefano Manfredi,Mauro Tosco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263629

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Arabic in Contact by Stefano Manfredi,Mauro Tosco Pdf

The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Gang PENG,Feng SHI
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789629372163

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Eastward Flows the Great River by Gang PENG,Feng SHI Pdf

This Festschrift shows the achievements of modern linguistics, reflecting Professor Wang's academic philosophy. It is not only a great reference for seasoned language researchers; it can also help broaden knowledge in Chinese linguistics for students interested in languages. Readers who wish to know Chinese culture will also expand their understanding of it through these studies of the languages in China. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Author : Terje Lohndal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351971911

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Formal Grammar by Terje Lohndal Pdf

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a diverse set of phenomena in various languages that shed light on theory and model construction. Many of the papers focus on comparisons between English and Norwegian, highlighting the importance of comparative approaches to the study of language. With a comprehensive collection of papers that demonstrate the richness of formal approaches, this volume is key reading for students and scholars interested in the study of grammar.