A Contrastive Grammar Of Brazilian Pomeranian

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A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian

Author : Gertjan Postma
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263531
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian written by Gertjan Postma and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this language island in the tropical state of Espirito Santo. This monograph offers the first synchronic grammar of this language. After a historical introduction, the book offers a systematic description of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The language is contrasted with its European sisters, more particularly High German, Dutch, and Frisian. It highlights various phenomena that will presumably contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate on the Germanic verbal system. It provides new data on cluster V2, do-support, and the two infinitives. As to the infinitival syntax, the language shows remarkable parallels to the system of Frisian. As to the rich Pomeranian system of subtractive morphology, the phonological account that is offered, will be important for the ongoing discussion of the abstractness of phonological representations. Finally, Pomeranian is a welcome addition to the set of languages on which our etymological understanding of West Germanic is based.

Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe

Author : Matt Coler
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104042
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe by : Matt Coler

Download or read book Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe written by Matt Coler and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Word Order Change

Author : Ana Maria Martins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198747306
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Word Order Change written by Ana Maria Martins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.

Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax

Author : Eric Mathieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065021
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax by : Eric Mathieu

Download or read book Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax written by Eric Mathieu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change. And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes. Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes: changes in the syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or class of lexical items. Other chapters explore links between micro-change and macro-change, using devices such as grammar competition at the individual and population level, recurring diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to the recent literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to parameters in synchronic syntax. One of its important contributions is the demonstration of how much we can learn about synchronic linguistics through the way languages change: the case studies included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic constructions that have been the target of extensive recent synchronic research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses, stylistic fronting, verb second, demonstratives, and negation. Languages discussed include several archaic and contemporary Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek, Hungarian, and Chinese, among many others.

A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English

Author : Milton M. Azevedo
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589018341
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English by : Milton M. Azevedo

Download or read book A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English written by Milton M. Azevedo and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese.

A grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese

Author : Earl Wesley Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A grammar of spoken Brazilian Portuguese written by Earl Wesley Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics

Author : Michael T. Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386350
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics by : Michael T. Putnam

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics written by Michael T. Putnam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive overview of the structure of modern Germanic languages. Written by a team of internationally-renowned experts, it is a vital resource for students and researchers investigating the Germanic family of languages and dialects, covering key topics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, heritage and minority languages.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theory of Lexical Phonology

Author : K.P. Mohanan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400937199
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Theory of Lexical Phonology by : K.P. Mohanan

Download or read book The Theory of Lexical Phonology written by K.P. Mohanan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here is in many ways radically different from the one that I proposed in the thesis, and there is a great deal of new data and analyses from English and Malayalam. Chapter VI is so new that I haven't even had the time to try it out on my friends. As everyone knows, research is a collective enterprise, even though an individual's name appears on the first page of the book or article. I would think of this book as a joint project involving dozens of people, in which I acted as the project coordinator, collecting suggestions from a wide variety of sources. Four major influences on what the book contains were Morris Halle, Paul Kiparsky, Mark Liberman, and Joan Bresnan. I learned the ropes of doing research on phonology, phonetics, and morphology from them, and almost everything that I discuss in this book owes its shape ultimately to one of them. Among the others who contributed generously to this book are: Jay Keyser, James Harris, Douglas Pulleyblank, Diana Archangeli, Donca Steriade, Elizabeth Selkirk, Francois Dell, Noam Chomsky, Philip Lesourd, Mohammed Guerssel, Michel Kenstovicz, Raj Singh, Will Leben, Joe Perkell, Victor Zue, Paroo Nihalani. P. Madhavan, and Stephanie Shattuck-Hafnagel.

An Introduction to Old Frisian

Author : Rolf Hendrik Bremmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027232555
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Old Frisian by : Rolf Hendrik Bremmer

Download or read book An Introduction to Old Frisian written by Rolf Hendrik Bremmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian and includes a history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Covered are the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian, with a chapter on Old Frisian dialects and one on problems regarding the periodization of Frisian and the close relationship between (Old) Frisian and (Old) English. Included is a reader with a representative selection of twenty-one texts with explanatory notes and a full glossary. A bibliography and a select index complete the book.

Morphology-driven Syntax

Author : Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027227365
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphology-driven Syntax by : Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher

Download or read book Morphology-driven Syntax written by Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive expletive constructions and object shift) and other language families (Romance, Semitic and Slavic) are discussed. A common explanation for all of the discussed phenomena is proposed: If and only if the features for person are distinctively marked by the agreement morphology, the agreement affixes are listed separately in the lexicon and project phrases of their own in syntax where they attract the verb to the head positions and allow the specifier positions to be filled by various phonologically (un)realized elements. Special attention is given to issues of historical development and child language acquisition.

Phonology in Context

Author : M. Pennington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625398
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Phonology in Context written by M. Pennington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices. It brings together research and theory from a range of research areas to suggest new directions for the field.

The international corpus of learner English

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Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 9782874631436
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The international corpus of learner English written by and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2009 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual to accompany the CD-ROM or online resource containing Version 2 of the ICLE. The ICLE is the computerized databank of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the Université catholique de Louvain. The Centre focuses on the development and use of learner corpora (electronic collections of authentic foreign language data). The ICLE is the result of over ten years of collaborative activity between a number of universities internationally. It contains over 3 million words of writing by learners of English from 21 different mother tongue backgrounds. The writing in the corpus has been contributed by advanced learners of English as a foreign language and is made up of 21 distinct sub-corpora, each containing one language variety (E2French, E2German, E2Swedish etc).

A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara

Author : Matt Coler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284001
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara written by Matt Coler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Coler provides a detailed grammatical description of a heretofore undocumented variety of Aymara spoken in Southern Peru, with focus on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax.

Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics

Author : Malgorzata Szajbel-Keck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780936534169
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics by : Malgorzata Szajbel-Keck

Download or read book Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics written by Malgorzata Szajbel-Keck and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume, based on a conference held at the University of California at Berkeley, in May 2014 continues a series of conference proceedings devoted to formal approaches to Slavic languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Polish, Serbian, and Russian. We are proud to call this volume The First Berkeley Meeting."

Who's Who in the World, 1995

Author : Marquis Who's Who
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780837911137
Total Pages : 1590 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who in the World, 1995 written by Marquis Who's Who and published by . This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single volume affords instant access to more than 35,000 individual biographies of the people whose activities are shaping today's world. Among those profiled are prominent government figures, high-ranking military officers, leaders of the largest corporations in each country, heads of religious organizations, pioneers in science & the arts & many more.

The Middle Voice

Author : Suzanne Kemmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229074
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The Middle Voice written by Suzanne Kemmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term middle voice has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms relative elaboration of events, that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another. In this area, most analyses deal with one language and/or are limited to Indo-European languages. This work deals with a subset of middle-marking languages that was chosen so as to observe the highest possible number of different middle systems showing significant independent diachronic development.