A Linguistic Happening in Memory of Ben Schwartz
| Author | : Yoël L. Arbeitman |
| Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 612 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789068311433 |
(Peeters 1988)
A Linguistic Happening In Memory Of Ben Schwartz
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Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová
| Author | : Šárka Velhartická |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2016-08-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004312617 |
The publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.
Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics
| Author | : Philip Baldi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2004-09-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027285381 |
This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II
| Author | : Richard D. Janda |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 705 |
| Release | : 2020-09-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 111873226X |
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.
Language Contacts in Prehistory
| Author | : Henning Andersen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2003-04-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027275300 |
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.
The Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament
| Author | : Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134938306 |
'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hellenistic origin or redaction of most of these narratives. Three central questions are addressed: are there common features in biblical accounts about the foundation of places of worship; are there elements in the aetiological stories that reveal the 'real' mythology/rituals of the sanctuary; what were the circumstances of the creation of such narratives?
Historical Linguistics, 1997
| Author | : Monika S. Schmid |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027236690 |
This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.
Bilingualism in Ancient Society
| Author | : James Noel Adams |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780199245062 |
Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.
Origins of the Greek Verb
| Author | : Andreas Willi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 748 |
| Release | : 2018-01-18 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1108173837 |
Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outline in full the developments which led from the remotest recoverable stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in Homer and other early Greek texts. By combining the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction with a careful examination of large collections of primary data and insights gained from the study of language change and linguistic typology, Andreas Willi uncovers the deeper reasons behind many surface irregularities and offers a new understanding of how categories such as aspect, tense and voice interact. Drawing upon evidence from all major branches of Indo-European, and providing exhaustive critical coverage of scholarly debate on the most controversial issues, this book will be an essential reference tool for anyone seeking orientation in this burgeoning but increasingly fragmented area of linguistic research.
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship
| Author | : Hans Henrich Hock |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2019-09-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311061328X |
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on the regularity of sound change and its importance for general historical-comparative linguistics. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.
