A Historical Phonology of the Upper and Lower Sorbian Languages
Author | : Gunter Schaarschmidt |
Publisher | : C. Winter |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gunter Schaarschmidt |
Publisher | : C. Winter |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tomasz Kamusella |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1137348399 |
This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region, which is also home to most of the world’s Slavic-speakers. This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy, making this book of great interest to historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.
Author | : Martin Haspelmath |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110218437 |
"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
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.
Author | : Gunter Schaarschmidt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Upper Sorbian language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony Jakob |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2023-12-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004686479 |
The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive into the East Baltic lexicon and peeling away the layers of prehistoric borrowings in the process. As well as significant contact events with known languages, the lexicon also reveals evidence of contact with unattested languages from which previous populations must have shifted.
Author | : Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1498579256 |
The dual number in Slavic has always puzzled linguists. While some Slavic languages, such as Slovenian, have three distinct categories of number--singular (1), dual (2), and plural (3 or more) –other Slavic languages, such as Russian, have no dual number. Considering that all Slavic languages have evolved from a common Proto Slavic language, it is puzzling that there is such a difference in the category of number. In The Evolution of the Slavic Dual: A Biolinguistic Perspective, with the aid of tools from biolinguistics, Tatyana G. Slobodchikoff develops a new theory of Morphosyntactic Feature Economy within the distributed morphology framework. Using newly digitized corpora of Old East Slavic, Old Slovenian, and Old Sorbian manuscripts spanning from the eleventh century through the present time, this book presents a thorough analysis of the evolution of dual number in Slavic languages.
Author | : Alexander Lubotsky |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Linguistics |
ISBN | : 9042024704 |
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.