The A to Z of Slovenia

The A to Z of Slovenia
Author: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2010
Genre: Slovenia
ISBN: 0810872161

For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Slovene

Slovene
Author: Peter Herrity
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 131759424X

Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most complete reference guide to the contemporary language. Key features of this new edition include: updated examples reflecting current usage, expanded discussions of particular areas of difficulty, a brief history of the language, dialects and register, clear distinction between written and spoken usage, new tables and charts for quick reference. The Grammar provides a jargon-free and systematic description of all parts of speech promoting an in-depth understanding of the Slovene language. Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is a key resource for linguists and students of Slovene at intermediate and advanced levels.

Historical Dictionary of Slovenia

Historical Dictionary of Slovenia
Author: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

It contains a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant people, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and the political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets of this fascinating and diverse country."--BOOK JACKET.

Prekmurje Slovene Grammar

Prekmurje Slovene Grammar
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004419144

The Avgust Pavel’s Vend nyelvtan or Prekmurje Slovene Grammar (1942) offers linguists insight into a key part of the remarkable variation in Slovene. A peripheral area of Slovene, the Prekmurje dialect is in contact with German, Hungarian, and Croatian Kajkavian.

Historical Linguistics 2013

Historical Linguistics 2013
Author: Dag T.T. Haug
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027268185

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general session of ICHL 2013 not only provide a clear picture of the state of the art in various subfields of historical linguistics but also present recent insights in diachronic phonology, typology, morphology and morphosyntax. The languages and families covered include English, German, Scandinavian, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Old Japanese and Austronesian. The volume will be useful to any linguist with an interest in diachronic matters as well as general linguistic theory.

Slovene

Slovene
Author: Peter Herrity
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317594231

Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is the most complete reference guide to the contemporary language. Key features of this new edition include: updated examples reflecting current usage, expanded discussions of particular areas of difficulty, a brief history of the language, dialects and register, clear distinction between written and spoken usage, new tables and charts for quick reference. The Grammar provides a jargon-free and systematic description of all parts of speech promoting an in-depth understanding of the Slovene language. Slovene: A Comprehensive Grammar is a key resource for linguists and students of Slovene at intermediate and advanced levels.

Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2

Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2
Author: Sebastian Kempgen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1276
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110393689

The present second volume completes the handbook Die slavischen Sprachen "The Slavic languages. Ein internationales Handbuch zu ihrer Struktur, ihrer Geschichte und ihrer Erforschung. An International Handbook of their History, their Structure and their Investigation". While the general conception is continued, the present volume now contains articles concerning inner and outer language history as well as problems of sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, standardology and language typology.

Areal Linguistics within the Phonological Atlas of Europe

Areal Linguistics within the Phonological Atlas of Europe
Author: Thomas Stolz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110672731

In contrast to many other levels of language, there is as yet no comprehensive areal-linguistic description of the segmental phonological properties of the languages of Europe. To complement the synchronic picture of the languages of Europe, it is time to take stock of their phoneme inventories to provide an empirical basis for generalizations about the similarities and dissimilarities of the languages of Europe. The best way to visualize the areal phonology of Europe is that of the Phonological Atlas of Europe (Phon@Europe) which features the isoglosses of phonological phenomena on a plethora of maps. As a prequel to Phon@Europe, this study not only outlines the goals, methodology, sample, and theory of the project but also focuses on loan phonemes whose diffusion across the 210 doculects of the sample yields meaningful patterns. The patterns are indicative of recent processes of convergence which have transformed a diverse phonological mosaic into a superficially homogeneous linguistic area. The developments which have led to the present situation are traced back through the history of the sample languages.

History of Linguistics 2011

History of Linguistics 2011
Author: Vadim Kasevich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269777

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 28 August – 2 September 2011. It begins with contributions on 17th-century rationalist ideas and practical grammar writing, and then covers a great variety of 18th and 19th century topics from Western grammars of Chinese to Saussure’s remarks on semiology of the years 1881–1891. The most noteworthy feature, however, is an entire section devoted to linguistics in Russia from the early Soviet period until the 1950s, including attempts to establish a Marxist view of language as well as phases to critically adapt Western ideas and at times efforts to participate successfully in international linguistic scholarship, both in phonetics and semantics.