Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics
Author: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9788772895291
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Historical Linguistics 2015
Author: Michela Cennamo
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 9027262454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics
Author: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays, a variety of Indo-European subjects are addressed, with a special emphasis given to the reconstruction and analysis of the Indo-European protolanguage, the tracing of morphological categories, the Balto-Slavic accents, the problems presented by the Indo-European "laryngeals", and the etymology of individual words from all branches of Indo-European. There is a separate section on comparative Eskimo.
Selected papers on Indo-European linguistics : with a section on comparative Eskimo linguistics. 2(1999)
Author: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 343
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammatical Change in Indo-European Languages
Author: Vit Bubenik
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-07-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9027289298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.
Historical Linguistics 1993
Author: Henning Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1995-05-18
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9027276498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.
Indo-European Language and Culture
Author: Benjamin W. Fortson, IV
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-07
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 1444359681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
Author: J. P. Mallory
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-08-24
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 0199287910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors introduce Proto-Indo-European describing its construction and revealing the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using archaeological evidence and natural history they reconstruct the lives, passions, culture, society and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Historical Linguistics 2017
Author: Bridget Drinka
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9027261679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change.
Selected Works
Author: E. D. Polivanov
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-12-04
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 3110815621
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