An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems write by Ranko Matasović. This book was released on 2018-05-24. An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings about the distribution of agreement patterns in the world's languages. Focussing primarily on agreement in gender, number and person, but with reference to agreement in other smaller categories, Ranko Matasović aims to discover which patterns of agreement are widespread and common in languages, and which are rather limited in their distribution. He sheds new light on a range of important theoretical questions such as what agreement actually is, what areal, typological and genetic patterns exist across agreement systems, and what problems in the analysis of agreement remain unresolved.
Sub-Indo-European Europe
Sub-Indo-European Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sub-Indo-European Europe write by Guus Kroonen. This book was released on 2024-05-24. Sub-Indo-European Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lingua Franca
The Lingua Franca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lingua Franca write by Natalie Operstein. This book was released on 2021-11-17. The Lingua Franca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label 'Lingua Franca' conceal? These and related questions are explored in this new book on an enduringly important topic. The book presents a typologically informed analysis of Mediterranean Lingua Franca, as documented in the Dictionnaire de la langue franque ou petit mauresque, which provides an important historical snapshot of contact-induced language change. Based on a close study of the Dictionnaire in its historical and linguistic context, the book proposes hypotheses concerning its models, authorship and publication history, and examines the place of the Dictionnaire's Lingua Franca in the structural typological space between Romance languages, on the one hand, and pidgins, on the other. It refines our understanding of the typology of contact outcomes while at the same time opening unexpected new avenues for both linguistic and historical research.
Dialectology meets Typology
Dialectology meets Typology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialectology meets Typology write by Bernd Kortmann. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Dialectology meets Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties? What are possible contributions of dialectology to areal typologies and the study of grammaticalization? What are important theoretical and methodological implications of this new type of collaboration in the study of language variation? The 18 contributors, among them many distinguished dialectologists, sociolinguists and typologists, address these and other novel questions on the basis of analyses of the morphology and syntax of a broad range of dialects (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Aryan).
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Studies in African Linguistic Typology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in African Linguistic Typology write by F. K. Erhard Voeltz. This book was released on 2006-03-22. Studies in African Linguistic Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
