Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics

Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics
Author: Eva Núñez Méndez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 144389317X

This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexical variation in early modern Spain, the origins of the confusion of b with v, Andalusian Spanish in the Americas, the expansion of seseo and yeísmo, processes of koineization, syntactic change in scribal documentation from the Middle Ages, and the semantic changes of the verbs ser, estar and haber. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the Spanish lexicon, phonetics, morphosyntax, dialectology and semantics with the input of ten prominent scholars. It focuses not only on relevant issues in the evolution of Spanish but also answers pertinent questions in the field such as: Why do we have Latin lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance and not in other Romance languages? What kind of social factors drove Arabic lexical borrowings? How did the advent of printing affect the standardization of the lexicon and orthography? What are the main theories to explain the confusion between b and v? How relevant was the role of the Andalusian dialect in the general historical evolution of Spanish in the Americas? What were the main social and demographic influences operating in the development of Spanish during the colonial period? How accurately did scribal practices represent the speech of the Middle Ages? How did ser (ESSERE), estar (STARE) and haber (HABERE) develop differently in Romance languages?

Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish

Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish
Author: Sergi Torner Castells
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1315455242

This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. Section 1 offers a presentation of the main theoretical and descriptive approaches to collocation. Section 2 explores collocation from the point of view of its lexicographical representation, while Section 3 offers a pedagogical perspective. Section 4 surveys current research on collocation in Catalan, Galician and Basque. Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish will be of interest to students of Hispanic linguistics.

Current Projects in Historical Lexicography

Current Projects in Historical Lexicography
Author: John Considine
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443821772

Current Projects in Historical Lexicography brings together seven papers by present and recent editors of historical dictionaries and lexical databases. The collection is introduced with an overview of the history of historical lexicography from the ancient world to the present day, with particular emphasis on the major nineteenth-century dictionaries of German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish, and on their successors. In the first paper, Javier Martín Arista describes the present state of, and the prospects for, the Nerthus lexical database of Old English. The next two introduce specialized dictionaries of the language of medieval and early modern texts: Fernando Tejedo-Herrero’s comprehensive dictionary of the language of the great thirteenth-century lawcode Siete Partidas, and Juhani Norri’s Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1530. Marijke Mooijaart’s paper discusses the online integration of the four historical dictionaries which cover Dutch from the earliest times to the twentieth century. The next two papers, Stefan Dollinger on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles and the Bank of Canadian English, and Maggie Scott on the Concise Scots Dictionary, describe projects to revise twentieth-century historical dictionaries as the language varieties which they register evolve. Finally, Jeremy Bergerson’s paper presents a project for an etymologically rich historical dictionary of Afrikaans. An appendix to the volume comprises two previously unpublished short documents by Katherine Barber and John Considine which bear on the history of the Dictionary of Canadianisms revision project. The contributions to this volume offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological issues such as inclusion criteria and the balance between diachronic and synchronic coverage, and practical issues such as publication media and funding.

Romance motion verbs in language change

Romance motion verbs in language change
Author: Katrin Pfadenhauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2024-07-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3111248143

Cross-linguistically, motion verbs are frequently involved in language change and feature a wide array of motion-related constructions. The aim of this volume is to grasp more completely the typological characteristics and the developmental potential of motion verbs and to acknowledge the formal and functional diversity of motion-related constructions in Romance languages. To this end, the contributions in this collection provide synchronic and diachronic as well as typologically oriented studies that focus on motion verbs and single- and multi-verb constructions that have received scant attention to date. These include verbal periphrases, (pseudo-/semi-)copula and pseudo-coordinated constructions in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French and French-based Creoles. In comparison to previous research on Romance languages, the present volume also adopts a broader perspective on language change, taking into account not only grammaticalization processes but also discursive, lexical and pragmatic phenomena such as the development of discursive, quotative or mirative functions. The studies build on functional, usage-based and constructionist models of language change and rely on corpus-based as well as experimental empirical approaches.

A Brief History of the Spanish Language

A Brief History of the Spanish Language
Author: David A. Pharies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 022613413X

“As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of ‘linguistic myths’ about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar.” —Choice Since its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world’s most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language’s Latin roots to its present-day forms, this concise book offers readers insights into the origin and evolution of Spanish, the historical and cultural changes that shaped it, and its spread around the world. A Brief History of the Spanish Language focuses on the most important aspects of the development of the Spanish language, eschewing technical jargon in favor of straightforward explanations. Along the way, it answers many of the common questions that puzzle native speakers and non-native speakers alike, such as: Why do some regions use tú while others use vos? How did the th sound develop in Castilian? And why is it la mesa but el agua? David A. Pharies, a world-renowned expert on the history and development of Spanish, has updated this edition with new research on all aspects of the evolution of Spanish and current demographic information. This book is perfect for anyone with a basic understanding of Spanish and a desire to further explore its roots. It also provides an ideal foundation for further study in any area of historical Spanish linguistics and early Spanish literature. A Brief History of the Spanish Language is a grand journey of discovery, revealing in a beautifully compact format the fascinating story of the language in both Spain and Spanish America.

Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography

Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography
Author: Rufus Gouws
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1596
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110238136

The basis for this additional volume are the three volumes of the handbooks Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography (HSK 5.1–5.3), published between 1989 and 1991. An updating has been perceived as an important desideratum for a considerable time. In the present Supplementary Volume the premises and subjects of HSK 5.1–5.3 are complemented by new articles that take account of the practice-internal and theoretical developments of the last 15 years. Special attention has been given to the following topics: the status and function of lexicographic reference works, the history of lexicography, the theory of lexicography, lexicographic processes, lexicographic training and lexicographic institutions, new metalexicographic methods, electronic and, especially, computer-assisted lexicography.

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change
Author: Natalya I. Stolova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269866

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance — demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and continuity attested in the data can be accounted for in cognitive linguistic terms. At the same time, the study illustrates how the insights gained from Latin and Romance historical data have profound implications for the cognitive approaches to language — in particular, for Leonard Talmy’s motion-framing typology and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. The book should appeal to scholars interested in historical Romance linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and lexical change.

Tendencias actuales en la investigación diacrónica de la lengua

Tendencias actuales en la investigación diacrónica de la lengua
Author: Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española. Congreso Nacional
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2009
Genre: Linguistics
ISBN: 844753328X

El presente volumen es la compilación de las contribuciones que se presentaron en el VIII Congreso Nacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española (AJIHLE), celebrado en Barcelona los días 2, 3 y 4 de abril de 2008. Durante estos tres días, un importante número de investigadores noveles procedentes de distintas universidades nacionales e internacionales, convirtieron la Universidad de Barcelona (UB) y la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) en un lugar propicio para el debate y la puesta en común de las principales líneas de investigación que actualmente se desarrollan en el ámbito del estudio histórico de la lengua. Así lo demuestran, como podrá observar el lector en las páginas que siguen, tanto la relevancia de los ponentes invitados en el mundo de la investigación histórica del español como la actualidad de los contenidos presentados en las dos mesas redondas y la diversidad de los temas de las distintas comunicaciones que los socios presentaron.

Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance

Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance
Author: Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1052
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110665433

The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.