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The Dialect Laboratory

Author : Gunther De Vogelaer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273472
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dialect Laboratory by : Gunther De Vogelaer

Download or read book The Dialect Laboratory written by Gunther De Vogelaer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In addition, as compared to most cross-linguistic and diachronic data, dialect data are unusually high in resolution. This book shows that the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in the process of finding answers to fundamental questions of theoretical historical linguistics. It includes contributions which relate a clearly formulated theoretical question of historical linguistic interest with a well-defined, solid empirical base. The volume discusses phenomena from different domains of grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax) and a wide variety of languages and language varieties in the light of several current theoretical frameworks.

The future of dialects

Author : Marie-Hélène Côté
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234186
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The future of dialects written by Marie-Hélène Côté and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift from dialect to standard and to intermediate compromises between the two in their forms of speech. Varieties of speech thus live on in modern communities, where they still function to mark provenance, but increasingly cultural and social provenance as opposed to pure geography. They arise at times from the need to function throughout the different groups in society, but they also may have roots in immigrants’ speech, and just as certainly from the ineluctable dynamics of groups wishing to express their identity to themselves and to the world. The future of dialects is a selection of the papers presented at Methods in Dialectology XV, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, 11-15 August 2014. While the focus is on methodology, the volume also includes specialized studies on varieties of Catalan, Breton, Croatian, (Belgian) Dutch, English (in the US, the UK and in Japan), German (including Swiss German), Italian (including Tyrolean Italian), Japanese, and Spanish as well as on heritage languages in Canada.

Greece’s labyrinth of language

Author : Raf Van Rooy
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102104
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Greece’s labyrinth of language written by Raf Van Rooy and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.

Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects

Author : Georgios K. Giannakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110532131
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects by : Georgios K. Giannakis

Download or read book Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects written by Georgios K. Giannakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collective volume with over twenty important studies on less well-studied dialects of ancient Greek, particularly of the northern regions. The book covers geographically a broad area of the classical Greek world ranging from Central Greece to the overseas Greek colonies of Thrace and the Black Sea. Particular emphasis is placed on the epichoric varieties of areas on the northern fringe of the classical Greek world, including Thessaly, Epirus and Macedonia. Recent advances in research are taken into consideration in providing state-of-the art accounts of these understudied dialects, but also of more well-known dialects like Lesbian. In addition, other papers address special intriguing topics in these, but also in other dialects, such as Thessalian, Lesbian and Ionic, or focus on important multi-dialectal corpora such as the oracular tablets from Dodona. Finally, a number of studies examine broader topics like the supraregional Doric koinai or the concept of dialect continuum, or even explore the possibility of an ancient Balkansprachbund, which included Greek too. This new reference work covers a gap in current research and will be indispensable for people interested in Greek dialectology and ancient Greek in general.

A Tale of Two Dialect Regions

Author : André Sherriah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013293436
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Dialect Regions written by André Sherriah and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan's English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel replicable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton's et. al., 1962-1971, Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

Author : Ángel J. Gallego
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190634790
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects written by Ángel J. Gallego and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena. Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects. This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.

Chambers's Encyclopædia: Goo.-Lab

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopædia: Goo.-Lab written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation

Author : Gunther De Vogelaer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265283
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation by : Gunther De Vogelaer

Download or read book Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation written by Gunther De Vogelaer and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical backgrounds. The book therefore includes contributions by both psycho- and sociolinguists, and by representatives of further relevant sub-disciplines of linguistics, including historical linguistics and dialectology. Second, in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison, the book brings together research carried out in different sociolinguistic constellations, as most obviously found in different language areas or different countries.

Chambers's Encyclopædia: LAB to NUM

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopædia: LAB to NUM written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raindance Writer's Lab

Author : Elliot Grove
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240520793
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Raindance Writer's Lab written by Elliot Grove and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a practical guide through the whole process of scriptwriting. Techniques are related to real-life examples throughout the book, from low-budget to blockbuster films.

The Handbook of Dialectology

Author : Charles Boberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118827554
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Dialectology written by Charles Boberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Non-canonical Passives

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255881
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Non-canonical Passives written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal properties of passivization and reflect the current discussion in this area, covering syntactic, semantic, psycho-linguistic and typological aspects of the phenomenon, from different theoretical perspectives and in different language families and backed up in most cases by extensive corpora and experimental studies.

Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance

Author : Susann Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110311860
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance written by Susann Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

The Dialect of West Somerset

Author : Frederick Thomas Elworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama

Author : Anne-Sophie Bories
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110781506
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama by : Anne-Sophie Bories

Download or read book Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama written by Anne-Sophie Bories and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume responds to the current interest in computational and statistical methods to describe and analyse metre, style, and poeticity, particularly insofar as they can open up new research perspectives in literature, linguistics, and literary history. The contributions are representative of the diversity of approaches, methods, and goals of a thriving research community. Although most papers focus on written poetry, including computer-generated poetry, the volume also features analyses of spoken poetry, narrative prose, and drama. The contributions employ a variety of methods and techniques ranging from motif analysis, network analysis, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing. The volume pays particular attention to annotation, one of the most basic practices in computational stylistics. This contribution to the growing, dynamic field of digital literary studies will be useful to both students and scholars looking for an overview of current trends, relevant methods, and possible results, at a crucial moment in the development of novel approaches, when one needs to keep in mind the qualitative, hermeneutical benefit made possible by such quantitative efforts.

Resources in Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
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The Emperor of All Maladies

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439181713
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song of the Cell! Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.