Diachronic Slavonic Syntax

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
Author: Imke Mendoza
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2022-03-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110647206

The impact of the ecclesiastical languages Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic on the Slavic standard languages still lacks a systematic analysis in the theoretical framework of contact linguistics. Based on corpus data, this volume offers an account in the light of “literacy language contact”, i.e. contact between varieties that are used only in a written variant and only in formal registers. Latin was used as literary language in medieval Slavia Romana; Greek was the source language for Church Slavonic, which, in turn, was the literary language for many Slavonic speaking communities and thus had an enormous impact on the development of the modern Slavonic standard languages. The book offers in-depth analyses of the impact of Latin on pre-Standard Slavonic varieties, the influence of Greek on (Old) Church Slavonic and the role of Church Slavonic as a source language for Old and Modern Russian. The contributions discuss (morpho)syntactic phenomena such as non-finite clauses, relative clauses, word order, the use and function of case and tense forms. The volume addresses Slavists, General linguists and scholars of Classical Philology interested in language contact and syntactic issues.

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
Author: Björn Hansen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110529394

The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
Author: Imke Mendoza
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110647068

The impact of the ecclesiastical languages Greek, Latin and Church Slavonic on the Slavic standard languages still lacks a systematic analysis in the theoretical framework of contact linguistics. Based on corpus data, this volume offers an account in the light of "literacy language contact", i.e. contact between varieties that are used only in a written variant and only in formal registers. Latin was used as literary language in medieval Slavia Romana; Greek was the source language for Church Slavonic, which, in turn, was the literary language for many Slavonic speaking communities and thus had an enormous impact on the development of the modern Slavonic standard languages. The volume offers in-depth analyses of the impact of Latin on pre-Standard Slavonic varieties, the influence of Greek on (Old) Church Slavonic and the role of Church Slavonic as a source language for Old and Modern Russian. The contributions discuss (morpho)syntactic phenomena such as non-finite clauses, relative clauses, word order, the use and function of case and tense forms. The volume addresses Slavists, General linguists and scholars of Classical Philology interested in language contact and syntactic issues.

Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

Clausal Complementation in South Slavic
Author: Björn Wiemer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110725851

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Diachronic Syntax

Diachronic Syntax
Author: Susan Pintzuk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198250272

This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.

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: 1192
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110215470

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.

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric
Author: Gréte Dalmi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2022-01-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501513915

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
Author: Danko Šipka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1177
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1108967906

The linguistic study of the Slavic language family, with its rich syntactic and phonological structures, complex writing systems, and diverse socio-historical context, is a rapidly growing research area. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook provides a systematic review of cutting-edge research in Slavic linguistics. It covers phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexicology, and sociolinguistics, and presents multiple theoretical perspectives, including synchronic and diachronic. Each chapter addresses a particular linguistic feature pertinent to Slavic languages, and covers the development of the feature from Proto-Slavic to present-day Slavic languages, the main findings in historical and ongoing research devoted to the feature, and a summary of the current state of the art in the field and what the directions of future research will be. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in theoretical linguistics, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics and Slavic/East European Studies.

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia
Author: Walter Bisang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110560445

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Diachronic Syntax

Diachronic Syntax
Author: Alice C. Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1985
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: