Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond
Title | Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Luka Szucsich |
Publisher | Linguistik International |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Comparative linguistics |
ISBN | 9783631770115 |
This book investigates linguistic convergence in Europe, esp. in Eastern Central Europe diachronically and synchronically. The focus lies on methodical and empirical questions in the context of possible language contact. Languages of Eastern Central Europe share common vocabulary due to cultural contact, but also several grammatical features.
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe
Title | Slavic on the Language Map of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Andrii Danylenko |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311063922X |
Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages
Between Separation and Symbiosis
Title | Between Separation and Symbiosis PDF eBook |
Author | Andrey N. Sobolev |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 150150925X |
The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.
Convergent Linguistic Tendencies in the Bernstein Strasse/Central-European Linguistic Area
Title | Convergent Linguistic Tendencies in the Bernstein Strasse/Central-European Linguistic Area PDF eBook |
Author | János Pusztay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788055808239 |
Linguistic Regionalism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Title | Linguistic Regionalism in Eastern Europe and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Dieter Stern |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | 9783631751510 |
The present volume aims at exploring the overall patterns of linguistic regionalism throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. A wide array of aspects related to regional language designs are addressed. The volume aims also at a critical reassessment of Aleksandr Dulichenko's microlanguage paradigm.
The Major Languages of Eastern Europe
Title | The Major Languages of Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Comrie |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1134932642 |
Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field.
The Changing Languages of Europe
Title | The Changing Languages of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Heine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199297339 |
"Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe." "The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change."--BOOK JACKET.