Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) - 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 Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) write by Stephan Elspaß. This book was released on 2011-07-26. Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten ‘big’ as well as ‘small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.
A History of German
A History of German - 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 A History of German write by Joseph Salmons. This book was released on 2018-08-09. A History of German available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar? Why are noun plurals so complicated? Are dialects dying out today? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language? This second edition has been extensively expanded and revised to include extended coverage of syntactic and pragmatic change throughout, expanded discussion of sociolinguistic aspects, language variation, and language contact, and more on the position of German in the Germanic family. The book is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards. The new edition also includes more detailed background information to make it more accessible for beginners.
Language and History in the Early Germanic World
Language and History in the Early Germanic World - 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 Language and History in the Early Germanic World write by D. H. Green. This book was released on 2000-08-28. Language and History in the Early Germanic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.
Desired Language
Desired Language - 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 Desired Language write by Francesc Feliu. This book was released on 2023-01-15. Desired Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of today’s thinkers have predicted the decline or even the end of national ideologies. In the area of language, postmodernism would make the linguistic affiliation of the community individuals irrelevant, de-ideologise language use, and extend plurilingualism and language alternation in association with a new distribution of (physical or functional) spaces of linguistic practice. But is this true everywhere? Are languages now nowhere the core of collective identity? Or are we witnessing a distinction between languages that, because of their magnitude, status, strategic position, etc., can continue to exercise the function of national languages and languages that have to renounce this function? Has national linguistic ideology really ceased to make sense? What other strategies should the historic language of a given geographic area employ if it wants to continue forming part of the life of the community that is set up there? What kinds of languages are desired by politicians, intellectuals and philologists? This book aims to bring some thoughts about these questions.
The Genitive Case in Dutch and German
The Genitive Case in Dutch and German - 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 Genitive Case in Dutch and German write by Alan Scott. This book was released on 2013-11-28. The Genitive Case in Dutch and German available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension that exists between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative constructions in both languages. On the basis of usage data from a wide variety of registers, from the 16th century to the present day, Alan K. Scott demonstrates that codification has preserved obsolescent morphological genitive constructions in Dutch and German while suppressing their potential replacements, and shows that, despite its association with norm-conformant language, the genitive is used to a surprisingly large extent in informal early modern Dutch and modern German sources.
