Diachronic, areal, and typological Linguistics

Diachronic, areal, and typological Linguistics
Author: Henry M. Hoenigswald
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111418790

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Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony

Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Author: Sonia Cristofaro
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264457

Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.

Studies in Typology and Diachrony

Studies in Typology and Diachrony
Author: William A. Croft
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027278040

Joseph H. Greenberg is a towering figure in late twentieth century linguistics. His major contributions in the field have been in the area of typology and universals, virtually launched by his paper on word order universals, and in diachronic linguistics. The major thrust of Greenberg's work in the past three decades has been in the fusion of these two approaches to linguistic explanation into one, diachronic typology, the cross-linguistic analysis of languages as dynamic systems.This volume honors Greenberg on the occasion of his 75th birthday. It opens with an introduction discussing Greenberg's work at length and a full bibliography of his publications. It contains ten papers in typology, diachronic theory and diachronic typology by some of the leading linguists working in the research tradition inspired by Greenberg's work.

The Diachrony of Classification Systems

The Diachrony of Classification Systems
Author: William B. McGregor
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-05-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264139

Classification is a popular topic in typological, descriptive and theoretical linguistics. This volume is the first to deal specifically with the diachrony of linguistic systems of classification. It comprises original papers that examine the ways in which linguistic classification systems arise, change, and dissipate in both natural circumstances and in circumstances of attrition. The role of diffusion in such processes is explored, as well as the question of what can be diffused. The volume is not restricted to nominal systems of classification, but also includes papers dealing with the less well-known phenomenon of verbal classification. Languages from a wide spread of world regions are examined, including Africa, Amazonia, Australia, Eurasia, Oceania, and Mesoamerica. The volume will be of interest to linguistic typologists, descriptive linguists, historical linguists, and grammaticalization theorists.

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1989-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780226114330

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics
Author: Pieter Muysken
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-02-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291365

From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the Guapore-Mamore (Amazon) regions have never before been studied in an areal perspective, and yet other areas are involved in current debates. The insight has gained ground that languages owe many of their characteristics to the languages they are in contact with over time. Yet the nature of these areal influences remains a matter of debate. Furthermore, areas are often hard to define. Hence the title: a shift from linguistic areas as concrete and circumscribed objects to a new way of doing linguistics: areally. New findings include the observation that there may be many more language areas than previously recognized. The book is primarily directed at linguists working in descriptive, comparative, historical and typological linguistics. Since it covers linguistic areas from four continents, it will have a wide appeal.

Approaches to Language

Approaches to Language
Author: William C. McCormack
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110800039

A grammar of Palula

A grammar of Palula
Author: Henrik Liljegren
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3946234313

This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.

Synchrony and Diachrony

Synchrony and Diachrony
Author: Anna Giacalone Ramat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272077

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.