Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish

Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish
Title Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish PDF eBook
Author Joel Rini
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 212
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027236852

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After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir 'to sleep', morir 'to die', the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres 'you are'. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology
Title The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology PDF eBook
Author Antonio Fábregas
Publisher Routledge
Pages 857
Release 2021-05-03
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1000371603

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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise. As such, this handbook is relevant both for those interested in the facts of Spanish morphology and those interested in general morphology that want to explore how the Spanish facts illuminate our understanding of human language and current theories of morphology. This volume is also unique in its extent and coverage. Written by an international team of leading experts in the field, it contains 42 chapters divided into four sections, covering all synchronic and diachronic aspects of Spanish morphology, including inflection; derivation; compounding and other processes of word formation; the interaction of morphology with other modules of grammar and the role of morphology in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language teaching.

Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

Topics in Cognitive Linguistics
Title Topics in Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Brygida Rudzka
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 721
Release 1988
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027235449

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This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology
Title New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology PDF eBook
Author Chiyo Nishida
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 224
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027247900

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This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also includes eleven contributions by reputed scholars on topics ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation. Formal phonology papers favor the model of Optimality Theory, while phonetic measurements serve as the basis for sociolinguistic and dialectometric studies. Many of these studies emphasize new comparative, typological approaches to Romance data (including many non-standard varieties of French, Italian and Spanish). This volume will be of interest to all Romance linguists.

The Laws of Indo-European

The Laws of Indo-European
Title The Laws of Indo-European PDF eBook
Author N. E. Collinge
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 339
Release 1985-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027221022

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This book collects all the named laws of Indo-European, presents each in its original form and rationale and then provides an evaluation of all major attacks, revisions and exploitations, along with a full bibliography and index. Complete thorough exhaustive.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004
Title Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004 PDF eBook
Author Jenny Doetjes
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 336
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027247935

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This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth 'Going Romance' symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance languages.

From Case to Adposition

From Case to Adposition
Title From Case to Adposition PDF eBook
Author John Hewson
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 458
Release 2006-12-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027292965

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In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed out of the uninflected particle/preverbs in the older forms of IE, by forming fixed phrases with nominal elements, a pattern later followed in the development of a configurational NP (article + nominal) and VP (auxiliary + verbal). The authors follow this evolution through almost four thousand years of documentation in all twelve language families of the Indo-European phylum, noting the resemblances between the structure of the original IE case system and the systemic oppositions to be found in the sets of adpositions that replaced it. Quite apart from its theoretical analyses and proposals which in themselves amount to a new look at many traditional problems, this study has a value in the collected store of information on cases, and on adpositions and their usage. There is also a considerable store of etymological information that is relevant to the description of the systemic development.