Dialektologie in neuem Gewand

Dialektologie in neuem Gewand PDF Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN: 3875488040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Vorwort Zur Einleitung und Thematisierung des Symposiums Werner Abraham: Philologische Dialektologie und moderne Mikrovarietätsforschung. Zum Begriff des Erklärstatus in Syn- und Diachronie Josef Bayer: Klitisierung, Reanalyse, und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan & Alessandra Tomaselli: Bilingual competence, complementizer selection, and mood in Cimbrian Federica Cognola: Limits of syntactic variation and Universal Grammar. V2, OV/VO and subject pronouns in Mòcheno Cecilia Poletto: On the internal structure of q-words Oliver Schallert: Infinitivprominenz in deutschen Dialekten Gunther De Vogelaer & Jan Klom: Mikrovariation beim Erwerb des niederländischen Genussystems Helmut Weiß: UG und syntaktische(Mikro-)Variation Heike Wiese: What can new urban dialects tell us about internal language dynamics? The power of language diversity Werner Abraham: Dialect as a spoken-only medium: what it means – and what it does not mean

Dialektologie in neuem Gewand

Dialektologie in neuem Gewand PDF Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN: 3875488040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Book Description
Vorwort Zur Einleitung und Thematisierung des Symposiums Werner Abraham: Philologische Dialektologie und moderne Mikrovarietätsforschung. Zum Begriff des Erklärstatus in Syn- und Diachronie Josef Bayer: Klitisierung, Reanalyse, und die Lizensierung von Nullformen: zwei Beispiele aus dem Bairischen Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan & Alessandra Tomaselli: Bilingual competence, complementizer selection, and mood in Cimbrian Federica Cognola: Limits of syntactic variation and Universal Grammar. V2, OV/VO and subject pronouns in Mòcheno Cecilia Poletto: On the internal structure of q-words Oliver Schallert: Infinitivprominenz in deutschen Dialekten Gunther De Vogelaer & Jan Klom: Mikrovariation beim Erwerb des niederländischen Genussystems Helmut Weiß: UG und syntaktische(Mikro-)Variation Heike Wiese: What can new urban dialects tell us about internal language dynamics? The power of language diversity Werner Abraham: Dialect as a spoken-only medium: what it means – and what it does not mean

Dialektologie in neuem Gewand

Dialektologie in neuem Gewand PDF Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783875486759
Category : Dialectology
Languages : de
Pages : 271

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Morphological Variation

Morphological Variation PDF Author: Antje Dammel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726256X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.

Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics

Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics PDF Author: Roberta Pires De Oliveira
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261202
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in Brazilian Portuguese, left and right dislocation and the speaker’s perspective in Italian, Brazilian double subjects and left dislocated topic, long versus short wh-movement in Brazilian Portuguese and Quebec French, low adverbs and the raising of the verb in Brazilian Portuguese, ellipsis and null objects in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese. The chapters propose original accounts for language variation and historical changes, most of them focusing on Brazilian Portuguese, a challenge to syntax and semantics. Thus, the volume contributes to Brazilian and Portuguese Linguistics, as well as to general and contemporary research on syntax and semantics of natural languages.

Bavarian Syntax

Bavarian Syntax PDF Author: Günther Grewendorf
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269351
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left periphery of the clause was confirmed (among others) by so-called "doubly filled COMPs" in Bavarian (e.g. the co-occurrence of a wh-phrase and a complementizer), and in the 1990s, Northern Italian dialects provided the main empirical evidence for Rizzi’s extended theory of the left clausal periphery (the so-called "Split-C-hypothesis"). Among German dialects, Bavarian played a prominent role from the beginning: in addition to doubly-filled COMPs we find phenomena such as complementizer agreement, partial pro-drop, pronominal clitics, extractions from finite clauses introduced by complementizers, negative concord, parasitic gaps, or double possessors, all of which are fascinating and highly relevant for theoretical syntax. The contributions in this volume investigate and analyze a wide range of topics from Bavarian syntax with the focus on implications for general theoretical questions. This volume is of interest for any linguist interested in syntactic theory and dialect syntax.

The Handbook of Dialectology

The Handbook of Dialectology PDF Author: Charles Boberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118827589
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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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

German(ic) in language contact

German(ic) in language contact PDF Author: Christian Zimmer
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961103135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The evaluation of such innovations reveals speakers’ attitudes and is in turn an important aspect of the sociolinguistic dynamics linked to language contact. In this volume, we assemble studies on such settings where typologically congruent languages are in contact, i.e. language contact within the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Languages involved include Afrikaans, Danish, English, Frisian, (Low and High) German, and Yiddish. The main focus is on constellations where a variety of German is involved (which is why we use the term ‘German(ic)’ in this book). So far, studies on language contact with Germanic varieties have often been separated according to the different migration scenarios at hand, which resulted in somewhat different research traditions. For example, the so-called Sprachinselforschung (research on ‘language islands’) has mainly been concerned with settings caused by emigration from the continuous German-speaking area in Central Europe to locations in Central and Eastern Europe and overseas, thus resulting in some variety of German abroad. However, from a linguistic point of view it does not seem to be necessary to distinguish categorically between contact scenarios within and outside of Central Europe if one thoroughly considers the impact of sociolinguistic circumstances, including the ecology of the languages involved (such as, for instance, German being the majority language and the monolingual habitus prevailing in Germany, but completely different constellations elsewhere). Therefore, we focus on language contact as such in this book, not on specific migration scenarios. Accordingly, this volume includes chapters on language contact within and outside of (Central) Europe. In addition, the settings studied differ as regards the composition and the vitality of the languages involved. The individual chapters view language contact from a grammar-theoretical perspective, focus on lesser studied contact settings (e.g. German in Namibia), make use of new corpus linguistic resources, analyse data quantitatively, study language contact phenomena in computer-mediated communication, and/or focus on the interplay of language use and language attitudes or ideologies. These different approaches and the diversity of the scenarios allow us to study many different aspects of the dynamics induced by language contact. With this volume, we hope to exploit this potential in order to shed some new light on the interplay of language contact, variation and change, and the concomitant sociolinguistic dynamics. Particularly, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of closely related varieties in contact.

Rethinking Verb Second

Rethinking Verb Second PDF Author: Rebecca Woods
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198844301
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 979

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This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Null Subjects in Generative Grammar

Null Subjects in Generative Grammar PDF Author: Federica Cognola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192547887
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specific contexts. In generative syntax-the approach adopted in this volume-the phenomenon has traditionally been explained in terms of a 'pro-drop' parameter with associated cluster properties; more recently, however, it has become clear that pro-drop phenomena do not always correlate with all the initially predicted cluster properties. This volume returns to the centre of the debate surrounding the empirical phenomena associated with null subjects. Experts in the field explore the cluster properties associated with pro-drop; the types of null category involved in null-subject phenomena and their identification; and the typology of null-subject languages, with a special focus on partial null-subject languages. Chapters include both novel empirical data and new theoretical analyses covering the major approaches to null subjects in generative grammar. A wide range of languages are examined, ranging from the most commonly studied in research into null subjects, such as Finnish and Italian, to lesser-studied languages such as Vietnamese and Polish, minority languages such as Cimbrian and Kashubian, and historical varieties such as Old French and Old High German. The research presented also contributes to the understanding of other key syntactic phenomena, such as the nature of control, the role of information structure and semantics in syntax, the mechanisms of language change, and the formalization of language variation. The breadth and depth of the volume will make it a valuable resource not only for generative syntacticians, but also for all those working in the fields of historical linguistics, typology, comparative grammar, semantics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics more generally.

Pejoration

Pejoration PDF Author: Rita Finkbeiner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027267367
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and deals with diverse languages and their variants. The collection will appeal to all those linguists with a genuine interest in locating pejoration at the grammar-pragmatics interface.