Variation And Change In Mainland And Insular Norman

Author : Mari Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004257139

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Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman by Mari Jones Pdf

King John of England’s defeat by the French in 1204 led to the territorial fragmentation of the Duchy of Normandy. Henceforth, the Norman mainland, allied to France, and the Channel Islands, allied to England, would find themselves on different sides of an ever-widening linguistic gulf. In Variation and Change in Mainland and Insular Norman, Mari C. Jones examines the way in which contact between the Norman dialect and its two typologically different superstrates (French and English) provides optimal conditions to study the linguistic mechanisms of ‘dialect contact’ and ‘language contact’. Through the analysis of extensive and original phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical data, set in their historical and sociolinguistic contexts, this fascinating study explores how advergence with its superstrates has led Norman to diverge linguistically within these territories.

Author : Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198840176

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Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar by Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden Pdf

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoproven�al, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

Author : Salikoko Mufwene,Anna Maria Escobar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009115766

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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 - starts with the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes. It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.

Author : Mari C. Jones,Damien Mooney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107148352

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Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages by Mari C. Jones,Damien Mooney Pdf

This volume discusses how orthographies are being developed and implemented in the specific context of language endangerment and revitalisation. Chapters are written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and also by members of indigenous communities working 'at the coalface' of language support and maintenance.

Author : Jane Bliss
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783743162

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An Anglo-Norman Reader by Jane Bliss Pdf

This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. Each text is introduced and elucidated with notes and full references, and the material is divided into three main sections: Story (a variety of narrative forms), Miscellany (including letters, law and medicine, and other non-fiction), and Religious (saints' lives, sermons, Bible commentary, and prayers). Passages in one genre have been chosen so as to reflect themes or stories that appear in another, so that the book can be enjoyed as a collection or used as a resource to dip into for selected texts. This anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Anglo-Norman and medieval literature and culture. Wide-ranging and fully referenced, it can be used as a springboard for further study or relished in its own right by readers interested to discover Anglo-Norman literature that was written to amuse, instruct, entertain, or admonish medieval audiences.

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108845120

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The Long Journey of English by Peter Trudgill Pdf

A concise, original overview of the History of English, focusing on its early development and subsequent spread around the world.

Author : Brigitte Weber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110623710

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The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice by Brigitte Weber Pdf

The contributions of this volume offer both a diachronic and synchronic approach to aspects relating to different areas of colonial life as for example colonial place-naming in a comparative perspective. They comprise topics of diverse interests within the field of language and colonialism and represent the linguistic fields of sociolinguistics, onomastics, historical linguistics, language contact, obsolescence convergence and divergence, (colonial) discourse, lexicography and creolistics.

Author : Cassie Smith-Christmas,Noel P. Ó Murchadha,Michael Hornsby,Máiréad Moriarty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137575586

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New Speakers of Minority Languages by Cassie Smith-Christmas,Noel P. Ó Murchadha,Michael Hornsby,Máiréad Moriarty Pdf

This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority language, such as by migration or through education. This collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers: it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and those working within minority language communities.

Author : Jaine Beswick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319975658

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Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey by Jaine Beswick Pdf

This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. Within the context of major historical events and migratory flows, the author considers the significance of the multicultural small island space, ideologies regarding long-standing as well as emergent identification practices and language use, and conceptualizations of belonging, focusing in particular on the Madeiran Portuguese diaspora. The juxtaposition of historical and contemporary migratory flows opens up a compelling discussion concerning the maintenance and use of heritage languages in a multilingual environment, allowing a rare comparison of the symbolic role as ethnic identifiers of Jersey French, Standard French, English, and more contemporary migrant languages such as Portuguese. The author analyses the role of language in social integration and the potential for consequent shifts in group allegiances, as well as receptor community ideological and legislative responses, concluding with a hypothesised look at the future of migration to Jersey. This book advances research on migration, transnational lives and language use in an era of globalization, and will be of particular interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics, multilingualism, migration studies, and intercultural communication.

Author : Adina Camelia Bleotu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409514

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Towards a Theory of Denominals by Adina Camelia Bleotu Pdf

In Towards a Theory of Denominals, Adina Camelia Bleotu proposes a novel spanning analysis of denominals, arguing for its explanatory superiority to incorporation/conflation or nanosyntax in accounting for the formation and behaviour of such verbs in English and Romanian.

Author : Anna Rosen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270528

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Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English by Anna Rosen Pdf

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.

Author : Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192576538

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Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar by Sam Wolfe,Martin Maiden Pdf

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoprovençal, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

Author : Martin J. Duffell
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781905981915

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A New History of English Metre by Martin J. Duffell Pdf

"In the hundred years since the last major history of English metre was published, dramatic changes have occurred in both the way that poets versify in English and the way that scholars analyze verse. 'Free' verse is now firmly established alongside regular metre, and linguistics, statistics, and cognitive theory have contributed to the analysis of both. This new study covers the history of English metre up to the twenty-first century and compares a variety of modern theories to explain it. The result is a concise and up-to-date guide to metre for all students and teachers of English poetry." --Book Jacket.

Author : Peter Schrijver
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004653719

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The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin by Peter Schrijver Pdf

Author : Ian Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131952686

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Manual of Anglo-Norman by Ian Short Pdf

The aim is simply to provide a succinct and conveniently available synthesus of development in our knowledge of literary Anglo-Norman (more specifically its phonology and morpho-syntax) since the founding of the Anglo-Norman Text Society in 1937.--Foreword.