Sabellian Demonstratives

Sabellian Demonstratives

Author: Emmanuel Dupraz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-12-09

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 9004215409

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This book describes the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of Sabellian demonstratives. It contains new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of these grammatical items’ Italic origins based on typological principles.


Sabellian Demonstratives

Sabellian Demonstratives

Author: Emmanuel Dupraz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-12-09

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9004216995

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Past research on the Sabellian languages has been devoted mainly to the phonetic and morphological features of these languages as elements for the reconstruction of the prehistoric stages of Latin. The present book aims at analysing the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of a subset of grammatical terms, the demonstratives. It contains a thorough description of their synchronic behaviour, which permits both a comparison to the Latin data with new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of the Italic origins of these terms based on typological principles. Neither the grammar of Sabellian nor the pragmatic scope of the Sabellian inscriptions should be considered a priori identical to their Latin comparanda.


Latinitatis rationes

Latinitatis rationes

Author: Paolo Poccetti

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 3110431939

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This volume assembles 50 contributions presented at the XVII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: phonetics, syntax, etymology and semantics, pragmatics and textual analysis. It is a useful resource for the study of comparative and general linguistics, not only for linguists but also for scholars of classical philology.


South Picene

South Picene

Author: Raoul Zamponi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1000345920

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South Picene is the pre-Roman language spoken in the Adriatic sector of central Italy. This book presents a description of what we know about the structure of this language. South Picene is (together with Umbrian, Oscan, Latin, and Faliscan) one of the few members of the Italic branch of the Indo-European family and is also one of the European languages with the oldest existing texts (550 BCE). Besides a grammatical outline of the language, the book contains the linguistic (and often stylistic) analysis of all the 21 inscriptions that compose the South Picene epigraphic corpus and a word list. South Picene will be of interest to students and scholars of Indo-European languages, Italic languages, and in general, ancient languages of the Italian peninsula.


The Indo-European Language Family

The Indo-European Language Family

Author: Thomas Olander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108499791

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This book has grown out of a workshop held in Copenhagen in February 2017, The Indo-European Family Tree.


Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics

Author: Jared Klein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 921

ISBN-13: 311052175X

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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.


Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily

Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily

Author: Katherine McDonald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1107103835

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A groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.


The Life Cycle of Language

The Life Cycle of Language

Author: Darya Kavitskaya

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-02-23

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0192845810

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This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the world's languages. Historical linguistics does not solely focus on reconstructing a language's linguistic past and exploring the mechanisms underlying previous language changes; it also addresses broader questions concerning the development and ongoing evolution of language. The chapters in this book draw on data both from languages from the distant past, such as Hittite, Proto-Turkic, and Proto-Bantu, and from present-day languages including Akan, Cantonese, Kuuk Thaayorre, Selis-Ql'ispé, Nivaclé, and Spanish. The contributions showcase current research in historical linguistics and exemplify the dynamism and inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field.


Historical Linguistics 2015

Historical Linguistics 2015

Author: Michela Cennamo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2019-09-15

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 9027262454

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The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.


Clause and Discourse

Clause and Discourse

Author: Lidewij van Gils

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 3110678292

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These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: The volumes contain chapters on Latin lexicography, etymology, morphology, phonology, Greek-Latin language contact, Latin syntax, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics.