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Areal Distribution and Typological Diversity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia: The typological diversity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
Areal Distribution and Typological Diversity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
Author: Pirkko Suihkonen
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783895861680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Areal Distribution and Typological Diversity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia: Areal distribution of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
Author: Pirkko Suihkonen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 902726936X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe
Author: Andrii Danylenko
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 311063922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages
Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband
Author: Martin Haspelmath
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-07-14
Total Pages: 1013
ISBN-13: 3110194260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the history, methodology and the theory of typology, as well as the relationship between language typology and other disciplines. The authors of the individual sections and chapters are for the most part internationally known experts on the relevant topics. The vast majority of the articles are written in English, some in French or German. The handbook is not only intended for the expert in the fields of typology and language universals, but for all of those interested in linguistics. It is specifically addressed to all those who specialize in individual languages, providing basic orientation for their analysis and placing each language within the space of what is possible and common in the languages of the world.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1317851099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
Author: Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 0199691398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 1661
ISBN-13: 1316790665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
