The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1316025551

What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.

Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings

Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings
Author: Piera Molinelli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110554275

This book explores the linguistic expression of identity, intended as the social positioning of self and others, by focusing mostly on a scenario of prolonged language contact, namely the ancient Mediterranean area. The volume includes studies on language contact and on identity strategies developed at different levels of analysis, from phonetics to pragmatics, in, among others, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac, (Cypriot) Arabic, Medieval Sardinian.