Synchrony and Diachrony - 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 Synchrony and Diachrony write by Anna Giacalone Ramat. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Synchrony and Diachrony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.
Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek
Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek - 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 Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek write by Georgios K. Giannakis. This book was released on 2021-01-18. Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective volume contains thirty six original studies on various aspects of Ancient Greek language, linguistics and philology written by an international group of leading authorities in the field. The essays are organized in five thematic groups covering a wide variety of issues of ancient Greek linguistics, ranging from epigraphy and the study of individual dialects to various other aspects of the structure of the language, such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon and word formation, etymology, metrics as well as many syntactic matters and problems of pragmatics and stylistics of the language; a number of essays move in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other with the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts. The work is of special relevance to scholars interested in Greek linguistics in general and in particular aspects of the Greek language.
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony - 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 Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony write by Sonia Cristofaro. This book was released on 2018-07-15. Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.
Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics
Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics - 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 Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics write by Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes. This book was released on 2014. Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book brings together current research on the description of English using a range of corpora. It consists of a foreword, a review of the diachronic studies and another of the synchronic studies, twelve research papers, and a subject index. Five of the papers are about diachronic description and seven are about synchronic description.
Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics
Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics - 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 Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics write by Yuji Kawaguchi. This book was released on 2011. Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But, further, they can also recognize the hybrid nature of synchrony, which is referred to as "dynamic synchrony." This conception of synchrony assumes that similar patterns of usage can coexist in a community during a certain period and that their mutual relations are not static but conflicting enough to result in a future systematic change through symptomatic synchronic variation. Emergence of a large corpus of written texts for some languages has enabled quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of the synchronic conditions for diachronic changes, over both long and short spans of time. Most of the 14 papers in this volume represent studies on synchronic and diachronic variations based on such corpus data. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.
