Language Change And Language Structure

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Language Change And Language Structure

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Author : Toril Swan
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1994

Language Change And Language Structure written by Toril Swan and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Foreign Language Study categories.

A dozen articles from a symposium in Tromso, Norway, June 1991, look at Old English, Old Norse, and other elder Germanic tongues from comparative or historical perspectives, including runology. The topics include the development of runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history, the now phrase, comparatives, Latin-type accusatives and infinitives, verb-second syntax, and dating the break between High and Low German. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Structure And Variation In Language Contact

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Author : Ana Deumert
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-01-01

Structure And Variation In Language Contact written by Ana Deumert and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English (Hackert). A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.

The Changing English Language

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Author : Marianne Hundt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-20

The Changing English Language written by Marianne Hundt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Perspectives On Language Structure And Language Change

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Author : Lars Heltoft
language : en
Publisher: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Release Date : 2019

Perspectives On Language Structure And Language Change written by Lars Heltoft and has been published by Current Issues in Linguistic Theory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.

This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

The Cambridge Handbook Of Endangered Languages

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Author : Peter K. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-24

The Cambridge Handbook Of Endangered Languages written by Peter K. Austin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.

Language Usage And Language Structure

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Author : Kasper Boye
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010

Language Usage And Language Structure written by Kasper Boye and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure

Understanding Language Change

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Author : Kate Burridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-03

Understanding Language Change written by Kate Burridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position. Understanding Language Change offers a complete introduction to historical linguistics and language change. The book takes a step-by-step approach, first by introducing concepts through English examples and building on this with illustrations from other languages. Key features of this introductory text include: up to date and recent case studies at the end of each chapter chapter summaries and exercises that feature a wide range of languages coverage of application of historical linguistics in each chapter glossary of terms This book is essential reading for any students studying Historical Linguistics for the first time.

Languages Within Language

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Author : Ivan Fonagy
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001

Languages Within Language written by Ivan Fonagy and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

There is little hope of reconstructing by means of comparative or typological studies a lingua adamica essentially different from present-day languages. The distant preverbal past is however still present in live speech. Phonetic, syntactic and semantic rule transgressions, far from being products of a deficient output, are governed by a universal iconic apparatus, a sort of 'anti-grammar' or 'proto-grammar' which enables the speaker and the poet to express preconscious and subconscious mental contents that could not be conveyed by means of the grammar of any language. Secondary messages, generated by the proto-grammar are integrated into the primary grammatical message. The two messages whose structural and semantic divergence represents a chronological distance of hundreds of thousands of years, constitute a dialectic unity which characterize natural languages. The evolutive approach offers a different, perhaps better understanding of questions related to dynamic synchrony, vocal and verbal style, poetic language, language change.Chapters on: Diversity of the lexicon; Dual encoding: vocal style; Syntactic gesturing; Syntactic regressions; Prosodic expression of emotions; Poetry and vocal art; Situation and meaning; A hidden presence: verbal magic; Playing with language: joke and metaphor; Metaphor: a research instrument; Dynamics of poetic language; Semantic structure of possessive constructions; Semantic structure of punctuation marks; Why gestures?; Between acts and words; Language within language: dynamics, change and evolution.

Language Change And Linguistic Diversity

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Author : Thiago Costa Chacon
language : en
Publisher: EUP
Release Date : 2024-02-29

Language Change And Linguistic Diversity written by Thiago Costa Chacon and has been published by EUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Explores advances in the fields of language documentation, language change and historical linguistics

The Grammar Network

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Author : Holger Diessel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15

The Grammar Network written by Holger Diessel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.