Words and Dictionaries

Words and Dictionaries
Author: Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld
Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 832339315X

Księga pamiątkowa dla Profesora Stanisława Stachowskiego z okazji jego 85 urodzin * * * A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

The Oxford Gothic Grammar

The Oxford Gothic Grammar
Author: D. Gary Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2019-04-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192543091

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of which only a portion remains, and which has been the focus of most previous works. This book is the first in English to also draw on the recently discovered Bologna fragment and Crimean graffiti, original Gothic texts that provide more insights into the language. Following an overview of the history of the Goths and the origin of the Gothic language, Gary Miller explores all the major topics in Gothic grammar, beginning with the alphabet and phonology, and proceeding through subjects such as case functions, prepositions and particles, compounding, derivation, and verbal and sentential syntax. He also presents a selection of Gothic texts with notes and vocabulary, and ends with a chapter on linearization, including an overview of Gothic in its Germanic context. The Oxford Gothic Grammar will be an invaluable reference for all Indo-Europeanists, Germanic scholars, and historical linguists, from advanced undergraduate level upwards.

Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
Author: David M. Goldstein
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3967690911

Inhalt: Miyu Akao: Internal and External Factors behind the Development of the Tocharian Secondary Cases Milena Anfosso: The Phrygians from Βρίγες to Φρύγες: Herodotus 7.73, or the Linguistic Problems of a Migration Roberto Batisti: On Greek Αἰθίοψ 'Ethiopian' and Αἴσωπος 'Aesop' from a PIE Perspective James Clackson: The Latin and Oscan Imperfect Subjunctive in *-sē- John Clayton: Rhinoglottophilia in Avestan: *h > [h̃] and Its Orthographic and Phonological Consequences Ashwini Deo: Copular Contrasts in Indo-Aryan Diachrony Petra M. Goedegebuure: The Fat and the Furious: *w(o)rg̑- 'fat, furious, strong' and Derivatives in Hittite and Luwian Ian Hollenbaugh: Inceptives in Ancient Greek Ronald I. Kim: PIE Verbal Roots of the Shape *C(C)eH- in Old Armenian Jared S. Klein: Old Church Slavic obače and tŭk(ŭ)mo Laura Massetti: "Hermes and Hestia" Revisited: Hermes ἀκάκητα and the Funerary Fire Thomas Motter: Hittite Correlative Resumption as Discourse Anaphora Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi: Zeus Δέκτερος 'Benevolent, Welcoming' from Thera and Proto-Indo-European 'Right' Anthony D. Yates: The Phonology and Morphology of Anatolian *-mon-stems

Rethinking Verb Second

Rethinking Verb Second
Author: Rebecca Woods
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 979
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198844301

This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe

Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe
Author: Matt Coler
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961104042

This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora. Most of the contributions are empirically-oriented studies presenting first-hand data based on original fieldwork, and a few focus directly on the methodological issues in such research. Owing to the multifaceted nature of contact and diaspora phenomena (e.g. the intrinsic transnational essence of contact and diaspora, and the associated interplay between majority and minoritized languages and multilingual practices in different contact settings, contact-induced language change, and issues relating to convergence) the disciplinary scope is broad, and includes ethnography, qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition. Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiöryś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil.

The Indo-European Language Family

The Indo-European Language Family
Author: Thomas Olander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2022-09-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1108603866

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Life and work of Michael Knüppel

Life and work of Michael Knüppel
Author: Tnsaemedhin Aberra
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2022-04-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3756208036

The book is a bio-bibliography of the Turkologist, Tungusologist, Altaist, historian of science and ethnologist Michael Knüppel (*1967) for the years 1996-2022.