[PDF] Reconstructing Languages And Cultures eBook

Author : Edgar C. Polomé
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110867923

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Anthony Fox
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198700012

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"Anthony Fox's new textbook is primarily for students with an elementary knowledge of general linguistics who need an up-to-date introduction to historical linguistics, particularly to new developments in the theory and practice of linguistic reconstruction." -- Back cover.

Author : Gerd Carling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110373073

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The atlas, which is complemented by a geodatabase with all data available online, integrates old and new methodologies for investigating diversity, spread and contact of language and culture in the agricultural areas of Eurasia, Pacific and Amazon.

Author : Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027257345

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Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian, a southern Russian contact variety with Yiddish and Ukrainian elements, and Russian lexifier pidgins illustrate the reconstruction process, which involves making the most of all available documentation, particularly literature and stereotypical descriptions. Historical sociolinguistics of this kind straddles the fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and contact; this book brings together the methods and theories of these areas to show how they can result in a rich reconstruction of linguistic and socially-conditioned variation. We reconstruct the circumstances and social settings that produced this variation, and demonstrate how to reconstruct which variants were used by different types of speakers under different circumstances, and what kinds of social identities they indexed.

Author : Katalin É Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110185508

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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : Julie Tetel Andresen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118531280

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This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationship between language and society Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of language by drawing not only on the diverse fields of linguistics (structural, linguist anthropology, historical, sociolinguistics), but also on history, biology, genetics, sociology, and more Includes nine detailed language profiles on Kurdish, Arabic, Tibetan, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Tamil, !Xóõ (Taa), Mongolian, and Quiché A companion website offers a host of supplementary materials including, sound files, further exercises, and detailed introductory information for students new to linguistics

Author : Mohammad Ali Jazayery
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110864355

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This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.

Author : Benjamin W. Fortson, IV
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1444359681

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This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field. Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes