Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Edizioni Terra Santa Il Geroglifico Elementare: Storia, Mistero E
Book Synopsis
£23.00
Pontificio Istituto Biblico Studies in Northwest Semitic
Book Synopsis
£25.55
Pontificio Istituto Biblico Biblical Greek: Illustrated with Examples
Book Synopsis
£39.75
Pontificio Istituto Biblico Morphological Analysis of New Testament Greek - A
Book Synopsis
£53.06
L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Filologia Medievale: Comparatistica, Critica
Book Synopsis
£205.20
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of
Book Synopsis
£382.85
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of
Book Synopsis
£109.25
L'Erma Di Bretschneider I Rapporti Tra Il Sassone E lInglese Antico
Book Synopsis
£109.32
Brill Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited
Book SynopsisAs an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks, studies and surveys on comparative Armenian linguistics. Almost all of these works, with a few exceptions, mostly concentrate on Classical Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. Non-literary data taken from Armenian dialects have largely remained outside of the scope of Indo-European etymological considerations. This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical, phonetic, and morphological material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the Indo-European lexicon. In this respect it is completely new.
£321.97
Brill Arabic Morphology and Phonology: Based on the
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a comprehensive study of Arabic morpho-phonology with its basics and intricacies, by making available a wide range of material from the 8th century A.D. until our days and exploring the main topics that arise. It uses as its point of departure an unused source: the end of the 13th century Marāḥ al-arwāḥ by Aḥmad b. ‘alī Mas‘ūd, which is critically edited and provided with an introduction, an English translation and an extensive commentary. It offers an analysis of many grammatical theories, paradigms, qur'anical citations, verses of poetry, dialectal variants and Semitic words and concludes with various indices that make the enormous body of information easily accessible.Trade Review"…excellently well produced…" - M.G. Carter, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2004 "Insgesamt handelt es sich um eine wissenschaftlich und didaktisch durchaus wertvolle Publikation, die einen guten Einblick in ein späteres Stadium in der Entwicklung der nativen arabischen Morpho-Phonologie gibt." - Lutz Edzard, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Vol. 115, 2020
£68.80
Brill Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and
Book SynopsisDispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, probably the first one to separate, and the remaining branches. Three chapters are concerned with the most important unsolved problems of Indo-European subgrouping, namely the status of the postulated Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian subgroups. Two chapters discuss methodological problems with linguistic subgrouping and with the attempt to correlate linguistics and archaeology. Contributors are David W. Anthony, Rasmus Bjørn, José L. García Ramón, Riccardo Ginevra, Adam Hyllested, James A. Johnson, Kristian Kristiansen, H. Craig Melchert, Matthew Scarborough, Peter Schrijver, Matilde Serangeli, Zsolt Simon, Rasmus Thorsø, Michael Weiss.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dispersals and Diversification of the Indo-European Languages Matilde Serangeli 1 Ancient DNA, Mating Networks, and the Anatolian Split David W. Anthony 2 Nouns and Foreign Numerals: Anatolian ‘Four’ and the Development of the PIE Decimal System Rasmus Bjørn 3 Proto-Indo-European Continuity in Anatolian after the Split: When Hittite and Luwian Forms Require a Proto-Indo-European Source José L. García Ramón 4 Myths of Non-Functioning Fertility Deities in Hittite and Core Indo-European Riccardo Ginevra 5 Did Proto-Indo-European Have a Word for Wheat? Hittite šeppit(t)- Revisited and the Rise of Post-PIE Cereal Terminology Adam Hyllested 6 And Now for Something Completely Different? Interrogating Culture and Social Change in Early Indo-European Studies James A. Johnson 7 The Archaeology of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Anatolian: Locating the Split Kristian Kristiansen 8 Hittite ḫandā(i)- ‘to Align, Arrange, etc.’ and PIE Metaphors for ‘(Morally) Right’ H. Craig Melchert 9 Cognacy and Computational Cladistics: Issues in Determining Lexical Cognacy for Indo-European Cladistic Research Matthew Scarborough 10 Italo-Celtic and the Inflection of *es- ‘Be’ Peter Schrijver 11 The Anatolian Stop System and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis—Revisited Zsolt Simon 12 Two Balkan Indo-European Loanwords Rasmus Thorsø 13 The Inner Revolution: Old But Not That Old Michael Weiss Index
£115.20
Brill The Language of the Old-Okinawan Omoro Sōshi:
Book SynopsisThe Omoro Sōshi (1531–1623) is an indispensable resource for historical linguistic comparison of Old Okinawan with other Ryukyuan languages and Old Japanese. Leon A Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato offer a reference grammar, including detailed phonological analyses, of the otherwise opaque and dense poetic/religious language of the Omoro Sōshi. Meshing Western linguistic insight with existing literary/linguistic work in Ryukyuan studies, and incorporating their own research on Modern Okinawan, the authors offer a grammar and phonology of the Omoro language, with selected (excerpts of) songs grammatically analyzed, phonologically reconstructed, translated, and annotated.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Conventions 1 Introduction 1 What is the Omoro Sōshi? 2 Types of omoro 3 Versions 4 Song Structure 5 Overview of the Omoro Language 2 Spelling System and Phonology 1 Introduction 2 Reconstruction Methodology 3 Suprasegmentals 4 Consonants 5 Processes 6 Meter in Omoros 7 The Question of External Evidence and Its Relation to That Presented Here 8 Coda 3 Lexicon 1 PJ Origin 2 Loans from MJ 3 Loans from Sino-Japanese 4 Loans from Korean 5 Origins Unknown 6 Mishōgo (MO, Meanings Obscure) 4 Nominals 1 Nouns 2 Pronouns 3 Numerals 4 Nominal Prefixes 5 Nominal Suffixes 5 Adjectives 1 What is an Adjective? 2 Evolution of Adjectives 3 Functional Differences between/among Types 4 Functions as Modifiers, Predicates, or Noun Formatives 6 Verbs 1 Conjugation Types 2 History of Conjugational Merger: ra-gyō yodan-ka 3 Functional Split (mz) 4 Development of the Gerund 7 Auxiliaries 1 Passive/Exalting/Spontaneous -ari(·r)- ~ -uyi(·r)- 2 Causative/Exalting -as- 3 Negative -azɨ ~ -aɴ ~ -an- 4 Negative -adana 5 The Optative/Counterfactual Auxiliary -(a)masyi 6 Inference/Intention: -aɴ, -a, and -ami 7 Negative Inferential/Intentional -umazyi 8 Past -syi 9 Perfect -t˚ar-, -c˚yar-, -dar-, -ʣyar- 10 Emphatic Locative: -ʔac˚ɨr-u 11 Progressive: -ur- 12 Progressive/Perfective -yaaryi 13 Copula: -yar-, -nar- 14 The Exalting Auxiliary Verb -(u)wa·r/s- 15 Humilific Auxiliary -abir- 16 Humilific Auxiliary tʰat°imac°ɨr- References Index
£167.20
Brill The Diachrony of Written Language Contact: A
Book SynopsisNobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the history of translation as related to grammatical changes in English and Greek in a contrastive way. In this respect, emphasis is placed on the analysis of diachronic retranslations: the book examines translations from earlier periods of English and Greek in relation to various grammatical characteristics of these languages in different periods and in comparison to non-translated texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Part 1 Written Language Contact and Grammatical Change in English and Greek 1 Written Language Contact and Translations 1.1 Terminology of Language Contact 1.2 Written Language Contact Acknowledgements 2 Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change: Landmarks in the Development of Early Translations 2.1 Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change in English 2.2 Greek in Written Contact: History of Early Translations 3 Biblical Translations 3.1 The Corpus of Biblical Translations: Source of Evidence of Grammatical Change 3.2 Biblical Translations as Factor of Grammatical Change 3.3 English Biblical Translations: Examples of Corpus-Based Surveys 4 Intralingual Translations: Two Directions—to the Past or to the Present 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Intralingual Translations as Evidence of Grammatical Change 4.3 Types of Greek Intralingual Translations 4.4 Retranslations and Their Relation to Intralingual Translations 5 Examples of Studies on Grammatical Change in English through Translations 5.1 Translations and Multilingualism in the History of English 5.2 Grammatical Characteristics and the Effect of Other Languages in the Diachrony of English 6 From Syntactic Diglossia and Universal Bilingualism to What Diachronic Translations Can Tell Us about Grammatical Multiglossia 6.1 A Theoretical Proposal: Grammatical Multiglossia 6.2 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia, L2 and Bilingualism 6.3 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia and Ferguson’s Diglossia 6.4 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia as Related to (Seminatural Change Part 2 Data: English and Greek Translations and Grammatical Change 7 English Data 7.1 Voice, Argument Structure and Transitivity in English Biblical Diachronic Retranslations 7.2 Voice and Transitivity in English Diachronic Biblical vs. Non-biblical Translations 7.3 English Biblical vs. Non-biblical Diachronic Retranslations: Borrowing of Word-Formation Morphology 8 Greek Data 8.1 Greek Diachronic Retranslations of the New Testament: Voice and Argument Structure 8.2 Greek Diachronic Retranslations: Phrase Matching Approach 8.3 Greek vs. English Data: An Approach to the Diachrony of Written Language Contact 9 Conclusion Appendix 1: Further Information on the Texts of the Corpus (I–II) Appendix 2: (i) The Corpus of Translations of Biblical Texts; (ii) The Corpus of Translations of Boethius’ De Consolatione Philosophiae References Index
£127.68
Brill The Foundations of Arab Linguistics V: Kitāb
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on the Foundations of Arab Linguistics (FAL V, Cambridge, 2018). The first part of the book deals with Sībawayhi’s Kitāb, the oldest known treatise of Arabic grammar: after providing insights on some of its specific terminology, these chapters evaluate its place as a source within the long-term tradition of grammatical studies. The second part of the book focuses on parallel developments in the Arabic grammatical theory, both in the classical and postclassical periods up to the 15th century. Some contributions also address the relationship between grammar and other disciplines, notably philosophy and Qurʾānic exegesis. As such, this volume aims to deepen our knowledge of the development of linguistic theories in the Islamicate world.
£105.64
Brill The NeoAramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok
Book Synopsis
£95.00
Brill The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A
Book SynopsisIn The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. For most of this period, the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to trade with Japan. Using the analytical tool of language process, this book explores the nature and consequences of contact between Dutch and Japanese and other language varieties. The processes analysed include language learning, contact and competition, code switching, translation, lexical, syntactic and graphic interference, and language shift. The picture that emerges is that the multifarious uses of Dutch, especially the translation of Dutch books, would have a profound effect on the language, society, culture and intellectual life of Japan.Trade Review"It is this story of Rangaku (Dutch Studies in Japan) which is the central topic of Christopher Joby’s masterful new book, published in January by Brill [...]. The many interesting results Joby has produced in the pursuit of this new, multidisciplinary approach to the case of Rangaku, are underpinned by a formidable scholarly apparatus. [...]. Great praise, then, for Joby’s wide ranging, solid and impressive new study – for its clarity of structure, its thoroughness of substance and apparatus, its innovative combination of disciplines and the depth of analysis this has made possible; for his exemplary grip on this complex subject matter, with its multitude of data, detail, sources, languages and speakers; for the force of his conclusions on the impact this contact with the Dutch has had on Japanese culture and society; and last but not least, for the quality of his many well-chosen and beautifully reproduced illustrations. Page after page, one encounters the same delightful scholarship, with which Joby sets a standard that will last long. His book is a major contribution to Japanese and Asian Studies, and will strongly appeal also to scholars in many other fields, such as Dutch studies, book history, translation studies, European expansion, colonial lexicography, multilingualism, and above all contact linguistics." ~ Reiner Salverda, University College London, UK, in Dutch Crossing (June 2021), DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2021.1937780. “[…]Joby’s comprehensive approach – combined with an eye for the telling detail – makes The Dutch Language in Japan an extremely worthwhile read. There is much to savor and learn here for Dutch historians.” ~ Martine van Ittersum, University of Dundee in BMGN — Low Countries Historical Review, (Vol. 136, 2021), review 41. "Dit werk zal ontgetwijfeld een belangrijke bron van informatie en referentie worden voor onderzoekers in een breed domein. [...] Dit boek is een aantrekkelijk gepresenteerde, waardevolle en rijke bijdrage, niet alleen aan de geschiedenis van culturele en wetenschappelijke uitwisseling tussen Japan en Nederland, maar ook aan bredere taalkundige en interculturele studies. Ik heb het met plezier en interesse doorgenomen en zal het zeker nog regelmatig van de plank halen." ~ Henk de Groot, Professor Emeritus, in Neerlandia (126/3, 2022), pp. 44-45.
£46.86
Brill A Grammar of Piedmontese: A Minority Language of
Book SynopsisCerea, madamin, andoma bin? Less than a century ago, this was one of the most frequent greetings heard in Piedmont, a region in northwest Italy. Today, however, Piedmontese is severely endangered. This volume presents the first widely accessible and comprehensive grammatical description of the contemporary koine, covering its phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and typology, and drawing examples from both oral and written sources. Data on the history of the language and the local dialects and notes on revitalization efforts are also included.Table of ContentsConventions, Glosses and Symbols Maps of Place Names in Piedmont Mentioned in the Grammar List of Maps, Tables and Figures 1 The Language and Its History, Classification and Variation 1.1 Overview: Language and Speakers 1.2 Disentangling Classification and Ideology 1.3 The Dialects of Piedmontese: Features and Classification 1.4 The Internal Classification of the Piedmontese Varieties 1.5 Social Varieties in Old Piedmontese 1.6 The Speech of the Piedmontese Jews, Sinti and Waldensians 1.7 A Short Linguistic History of Piedmont 1.8 An Outline of the Piedmontese Literature 2 Phonetics and Phonology 2.1 Default Articulation of Phonemes 2.2 Loan Phonemes, Borrowing and Adaptation 2.3 Previous Accounts of the Phonology of Piedmontese 2.4 Phonetic Processes 2.5 Positional Restrictions on the Occurrence of Phonemes 2.6 Syllables 2.7 Clusters 2.8 Length 2.9 Stress 2.10 Pitch and Intonation 3 Writing System and Orthography 3.1 Overview 3.2 History 3.3 Evaluation 4 Words, Word Constituents and Word Classes 4.1 Roots, Stems, Words, Affixes and Clitics 4.2 Morphological Mechanisms 4.3 Suppletion 4.4 Syncretism 4.5 Word Classes 5 Nouns 5.1 Overview 5.2 Gender 5.3 Number 5.4 Derivational Morphology of Nouns 6 Adjectives 6.1 Overview 6.2 Semantics of Adjectives 6.3 Morphology of Adjectives 6.4 Comparative Constructions 6.5 Adjectives as Nouns 6.6 Derivational Morphology of Adjectives 7 Personal Pronouns 7.1 Overview 7.2 Independent Personal Pronouns 7.3 Subject Personal Pronouns 7.4 Non-subject Personal Pronouns: Object and Indirect Object 7.5 Interrogative Subject Clitics 7.6 Reflexive, Reciprocal and Impersonal Personal Pronouns 7.7 Attributive Pronoun 7.8 Lexicalized Verb-Clitic Constructions 7.9 Post-Tonic Vowel Dropping 7.10 Sequences of Clitics 8 Grounding and Deixis 8.1 Overview 8.2 Determiners and Classifiers 8.3 Deixis 8.4 Possessives 9 Quantifiers 9.1 Numerals 9.2 Generic Quantifiers 9.3 Negative Quantifiers 9.4 Interrogative Quantifiers 9.5 Quantificational Quantifiers 10 Verbs 10.1 Semantic Overview 10.2 Morphological Overview 10.3 Affixes, Allomorphy and Syncretism 10.4 Historical and Comparative Notes 10.5 Moods and Tenses 10.6 Use of the Auxiliaries 10.7 Verbal Derivation 11 Verbal Periphrases and Modalities 11.1 Valency-Increasing Operation, 1: Causative 11.2 Valency-Increasing Operation, 2: Permissive 11.3 Valency-Increasing Operation, 3: Middle 11.4 Modal Verbs 11.5 Progressive and Continuous 11.6 Imminential 11.7 Inchoative 11.8 Durative 11.9 Terminative 11.10 Immediative 11.11 Iterative 12 Adverbs 12.1 Overview 12.2 Predicate Adverbs 12.3 Degree Adverbs and Focalizers 12.4 Sentence Adverbs 12.5 Linking Adverbs 12.6 Adverb Formation Rules and Productivity 13 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 13.1 The Expression of Location and Movement 13.2 Basic Prepositions 13.3 Non-basic Prepositions 13.4 Prepositional Use of Adverbs 13.5 Attributive Phrases and Binominal Constructions 14 Phrases 14.1 The Structure of the Noun Phrase 14.2 Grounding and Ordering of Phrases 14.3 Adjectival Phrases 14.4 Temporal Phrases and Telling the Time 15 Clauses 15.1 Non-verbal Predication 15.2 Declarative Clauses 15.3 Introducing the Ubiquitous che 15.4 “Bare” che in Non-verbal Predication 15.5 Relative Clauses 15.6 Imperative Clauses 15.7 Exhortative Clauses 15.8 Mirative and Exclamative Clauses 15.9 Questions 15.10 The Expression of Atmospheric Events 16 Linkage 16.1 Coordination 16.2 Subordination 17 Negation 17.1 Overview 17.2 Sentence Negators 17.3 Negation with Scope over Smaller Units 17.4 Other Negative Items 17.5 Negative Concord 17.6 Holophrastic Negation 18 Pragmatics and Discourse 18.1 Information Structure and Sentence Word Order 18.2 Hanging Topics and Clefts 18.3 Discourse Markers 19 Piedmontese in a Typological Perspective 19.1 Genealogy and Overview 19.2 Phonology 19.3 Morphosyntax 19.4 Lexical Typology 19.5 Piedmontese, Standard Average European, and Other Romance Languages 20 Use, Contact and Care: Codeswitching, Endangerment, Enrichment and Standardization 20.1 Language Ideology through Language Use 20.2 The Long Road toward Resurgence 20.3 Envoi Appendix: Text References Index
£169.20
Brill Code Copying: The Strength of Languages in
Book SynopsisThis book presents Lars Johanson’s Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology is kept intuitive and simple to apply. Illustrative examples from a wide range of languages demonstrate the model’s applicability to both spoken and written codes. The fundamental difference between ‘take-over’ copying and ‘carry-over’ copying is given special value. Speakers can take over copies from a secondary code into their own primary code, or alternatively carry over copies from their own primary code into their variety of a secondary code. The results of these two types of copying are significantly different and thus provide insights into historical processes.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Examples Abbreviations Notations Transcription 1 The Code-Copying Model 1 Introduction 2 Basic Code and Model Code 3 Take-over and Carry-over Copying 4 Code Switching and Code Mixing 5 Global and Selective Copying 6 The Contact Globe 7 The Order of Influence 8 Copying Is a Creative Act 9 Attractiveness 10 Contact Processes 11 Extremely High Levels of Copying 12 Historical Stratification 13 Distinguishing Carry-over and Take-over Copying 14 Example of Carry-over Copying: Linguistic Convergence in the Volga Area 2 Global Copies 3 Selective Copies 1 Selective Copying of Material/Phonological Features 2 Selective Copying of Semantic Features 3 Selective Copying of Combinational Features 4 Semantic-Combinational Copies 5 Selective Copying of Frequential Patterns 6 Mixed Copies 7 Distributional Classes 8 Degree of Complexity 9 Accommodation of Copies 4 Code-Copying and Grammaticalization 1 Isomorphism 2 Combined Scheme 3 Aikhenvald’s ‘Grammatical Accommodation’ as a Case of Selective Copying 4 Diachronic Processes Are Not Copiable 5 Lexical and Grammatical Targets of Copying 6 Awareness of Sources 7 Use after Copying 8 ‘Inherited Grammaticalization’ 9 Conceivable Carry-over-Copying of Evidentials 5 Remodeling Languages 1 Code-Internal Development 2 Remodeling the Basic-Code Frame 3 Convergence and Divergence 4 Converging through Selective Copying 5 Momentary, Habitualized, and Conventionalized Copies 6 Turkic Family-External Contacts 7 Code-Copying in Some Large Languages of the World 1 English 2 Chinese 3 Arabic 4 Russian 8 Stability 9 High-Copying Codes 1 Examples of High-Copying Languages 2 Attitudes towards High-Copying Varieties 10 Cognates and Copies 1 Distinctions between Cognates and Copies 2 Motivations for Copying Bound Morphemes 3 Cognates and Copies in Altaic Verb Derivation 4 Copies 5 Evidence 6 Arguments from Silence 7 Copies and Copiability 8 Superstable Morphology? 9 Typological Arguments 11 Types of Copying in Written Languages 1 Types 1 and 2: Take-over and Carry-over Copying 2 Subtypes of Type 1 Take-over Copying 3 Type 2: Carry-over Copying 4 Type 3: Alternate Use of the Codes 5 A Lower-Ranking Code Explicates Texts in Higher-Ranking Code 6 Type 5: Higher Ranking Code as Graphic Representation of the Lower Ranking Code 7 Examples of Type 1 Take-over Copying 8 Examples of Type 2: Carry-over Copying 9 Examples of Type 3: Alternate Use of the Codes 10 Examples of Type 4: Lower-Ranking Code Explicates Higher-Ranking Code 11 Examples of Type 5: Higher-Ranking Code Represents Lower-Ranking Code 12 A Passive-Active Scale References Index
£82.84
Brill Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite
Book SynopsisEver since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke and in the texts they wrote. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history, and philology, this book offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that is often described as the bridge between the East and the West. With contributions by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction F. Giusfredi 1 What Is This Book? 2 What This Book Is Not 3 Structure of the Book 4 Multi-Authored Chapters 5 Chronologies 6 Philological Conventions Part 1 The Theoretical and Historical Setting and the Earlier Phases 2 Contacts of Cultures and Contacts of Languages F. Giusfredi 1 Defining ‘Contact’ 2 Language Study as a Historical Tool 3 Types and Areas of Language Contact in the Ancient Near East 4 Concluding Remarks 3 Interregional Contacts and Interactions during the Fourth and Third Millennia BCE A. Matessi 1 Introduction: Some Definitions 2 The Fourth and Third Millennia BCE: An Age of Migrations? 3 Metallurgy and Areal Interactions in Early Bronze Age Anatolia 4 Concluding Remarks 4 Society, Culture, and Early Language Contact in Middle Bronze Age Anatolia (Ca. 1950–1650 BCE) A. Matessi and F. Giusfredi 1 Introduction 2 The Old Assyrian Merchants and Their Interactions with Anatolians 3 The Peoples and Languages of Anatolia during the Old Assyrian Period 4 The Geography and Scope of Old Assyrian Trade 5 The Late Kārum Period and the Anitta Text (CTH 1) 6 Non-Old Assyrian Commercial Networks 5 History, Society, and Culture in Anatolia and Neighboring Regions during the Hittite Period (Ca. 1650–1190 BCE) A. Matessi 1 Introduction 2 The Formative Period and the Question of Ethnicity: Hittites and Hattians 3 Hatti, Luwiya, and Pala: Core-Periphery Dialectics in Hittite Anatolia 4 The Empire Period: A Historical Outline 5 Shaping the Cultural Landscape of Hittite Anatolia 6 Concluding Remarks 6 Hittite Anatolia and the Cuneiform Koiné F. Giusfredi, A. Matessi and V. Pisaniello 1 The Cuneiform Koiné 2 Cuneiform in Anatolia: The General Context 3 Cuneiform Archives of Anatolia and the Relevant Neighboring Areas 4 Concluding Remarks Part 2 The Foreign Languages of the Hittite Archives and Textual Evidence for Interference 7 Sumerian Literary and Magical Texts from Hattuša M. Viano 1 Corpus, Scripts, and Findspots 2 The Purpose of Texts 3 The Reception of Sumerian Texts at Hattuša 8 Akkadian and Akkadian Texts in Hittite Anatolia F. Giusfredi and V. Pisaniello 1 Previous Studies on the Akkadian of the Hattuša Archives 2 The Akkadian Texts from Boğazköy: A Categorization 3 The Akkadian of Politics and Administration 4 The Akkadian of the Cultural Tradition 5 Concluding Remarks 9 Hattian Texts and Hattian in the Hittite Archives A. Rizza 1 Denomination and Identity 2 The Textual Documentation 3 The Status of Hattian in Hittite Anatolia 10 Hurrians and Hurrian in Hittite Anatolia F. Giusfredi and V. Pisaniello 1 Hurrians and Anatolia 2 Areal Relationships of Hurrian and the Hurrians 3 Hurrian Texts from the Hittite World: Chronology, Typology, and Functions 4 The Status of Hurrian in Anatolia 5 Concluding Remarks 11 Cuneiform Luwian in the Hattuša Archives I. Yakubovich 1 What Is (Cuneiform) Luwian and Where Is Luwiya? 2 Contact-Induced Changes 3 The Status of Luwian in Time and Space 12 Palaic in the Hittite Archives F. Giusfredi 1 What Is Palaic and Where Is Pala? 2 Areal Relationships of Palaic 3 The Status of Palaic in the Hittite World 4 Concluding Remarks 13 Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East V. Pisaniello and P. Cotticelli-Kurras 1 Indo-Iranian People in the Ancient Near East: An Overview of the Studies 2 Sources 3 Linguistic Analysis 4 Concluding Remarks Part 3 Contact Phenomena in Late Bronze Age Anatolia 14 Lexical Contact in and around Hittite Anatolia V. Pisaniello and F. Giusfredi 1 Theoretical Framework 2 The Languages Involved 3 The Early Northwestern Interface 4 Akkadian and the Languages of Anatolia 5 Hurrian, Luwian, and Hittite between Hatti and Kizzuwatna 6 Luwian and Hittite at Hattuša 7 Concluding Remarks 15 Grammatical Interference and the Languages of the Hittite Archives F. Giusfredi and V. Pisaniello 1 Grammatical Interference 2 The Structural Levels of Grammar 3 In the Languages of the Hittite Archives 4 Concluding Remarks 16 Conclusion to Volume 1 References Index
£151.20
Brill Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei
Book SynopsisThe nine contributions collected in this volume deal with clause linkage, focussing on asyndetic constructions that have been little researched in the area of the Ob-Yenisei region. The approaches are in-depth studies of particular languages and mostly based on original data collected in recent fieldworks or from corpora. Differences can be observed, among other things, in a more verbal or nominal use of converbs which take an important role in clause linkage strategies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction Anja Behnke and Beáta Wagner-Nagy 1 Enets Andrey Y. Shluinsky and Beáta Wagner-Nagy 2 Tundra Nenets Nikolett Mus 3 Evenki Chris Lasse Däbritz 4 Ket Andrey Nefedov 5 Eastern Khanty Andrey Filchenko 6 Mansi Bernadett Bíró 7 Selkup Anja Behnke and Josefina Budzisch 8 Chulym Turkic Chris Lasse Däbritz and Birsel Karakoç 9 Kamas Alexandre Arkhipov and Beáta Wagner-Nagy Index
£111.20
Brill Global Portuguese
Book Synopsis
£166.50
John Benjamins Publishing Co The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic
Book SynopsisThis book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change. Specifically, a Gothic/Greek bilingual community may be held responsible for initiating and diffusing the contact change. Third, I claim that this contact-driven featural enrichment prompted an array of radical restructurings of fricatives in their phonological and morphological organizations in Gothic, notably the occurrence of Final Devoicing in contrast to the nonoccurrence of medial voicing, the elimination of Verner's Law effects in strong verbs, the operation of Thurneysen's Law, and the apparently irregular split of PGmc. */fl-/ to Go. /fl-/ and /þl-/. Thus, privileged by a Lower Danube community largely composed of Greek/Gothic bilinguals, this cluster of mid-fourth-century innovations c
£95.95
John Benjamins Publishing Co Textbook English
Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine linguistic variation both within textbooks and compared to corpora representing real-life' English as used outside the EFL classroom. The results highlight the characteristics of Textbook English that define it as a distinct variety of English. In light of the study''s pedagogical implications, this book proposes a range of corpus-based approaches to improve the naturalness of textbook texts. It also contributes to advancing quantitative corpus linguistics methodology: its detailed online supplements aim for methodological transparency and reproducibility in line with the principles of Open Science. This book will be of interest to linguistics and language education students and researchers, as well as EFL teachers, textbook authors and editors, and those involved in curriculum development and teacher training.
£122.17
John Benjamins Publishing Co Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language
Book SynopsisThis book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryūkyūan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010, this book brings the author's theory up to date with research published in the interim, explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.
£83.60
John Benjamins Publishing Co Investigating Language Isolates
Book SynopsisLanguage isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth, up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques, some refined on the basis of former literature, and others new, in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition, the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here, which are, for the most part, endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists, historical linguists, descriptive linguists, and teachers of linguistics.
£112.10
John Benjamins Publishing Co English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical variation in English. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including two plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the increasing scholarly interest in varieties of English other than so-called ‘standard’ English. In all the contributions, well-established methods of historical dialectology combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. Perceptual dialectology is also taken into consideration, and state-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and atlases, are employed consistently, ensuring the methodological homogeneity of the contributions.Table of Contents1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. The early Middle English scribe: Sprach er wie er schrieb? (by Laing, Margaret); 4. Essex/Suffolk scribes and their language in fifteenth-century London (by Matheson, Lister M.); 5. Middle English word geography: Methodology and applications illustrated (by Linares, Maria Jose Carrillo); 6. Northern Middle English: Towards telling the full story (by Cuesta, Julia Fernandez); 7. The origins of the Northern Subject Rule (by Haas, Nynke de); 8. Dynamic dialectology and social networks (by Ogura, Mieko); 9. The Celtic hypothesis hasn't gone away: New perspectives on old debates (by Filppula, Markku); 10. On the trail of "intolerable Scoto-Hibernic jargon": Ulster English, Irish English and dialect hygiene in William Carleton's Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry (First Series, 1830) (by McCafferty, Kevin); 11. Exceptions to sound change and external motivation (by Hickey, Raymond); 12. Index of subjects
£83.60
De Gruyter Indices
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A. SUBJECT INDEX -- B. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND OF TERMS DERIVED FROM PROPER NAMES -- C. INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PASSAGES -- D. INDEX OF WORDS AND FORMS DISCUSSED OR MENTIONED
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Grecisms in Ancient Armenian
Book SynopsisThis book is a systematic presentation of the linguistic features in all the published Ancient Armenian texts, mainly belonging to the so-called Hellenizing School of translations (late fifth - early eighth century), which are explained by Greek influence. These features include various types of lexical, morphological and syntactical Grecisms. Many of them are also characteristic of 'pre-Hellenizing' translations; a few examples of some of them are found in the early classical translations from Greek. In all cases the corresponding passages of the Greek originals (if extant) are cited. Most of the sections concluded with examples of the classical translation practice of the corresponding linguistic features without any Greek influence. In an appendix, various features of Latinizing Armenian (seventeenth century) are traced back to Hellenizing Armenian.
£69.00
Peeters Publishers Autour De La Langue Arabe: Etudes Presentees a
Book SynopsisLes themes et sujets du present volume d'hommages que lui dedient plusieurs de ses collegues et amis, correspondent au profil a la fois focalise et varie de Jacques Grand'Henry, Professeur emerite d'etudes arabes a l'Universite catholique de Louvain. Les domaines couverts sont notamment ceux de la dialectologie arabe descriptive ou historique, de la linguistique historique et comparative, du moyen arabe ou de l'arabe melange tel qu'on le trouve dans les textes medievaux et dans les documents modernes (textes litteraires ou enonces oraux), et de la philologie arabe sous ses differents aspects. Ce volume contient des contributions de: Frederic Bauden, Lidia Bettini, Giovanni Canova, Joseph Chetrit, David Cohen, Werner Diem, Madiha Doss, Bruno Halflants, Clive Holes, Jerome Lentin, Xavier Luffin, Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Catherine Taine-Cheikh, Andrzej Zaborski et Liesbeth Zack.
£75.93
Peeters Publishers A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents. C.
Book SynopsisTo complement the text-based organization of the emendations and corrections listed in the Demotic Berichtigungsliste vols. A-B, this volume provides the Indexes of Rejected and Adopted Readings. These enable the reader to search for individual lexemes, be they words, names of gods or private persons, toponyms, titles, or numerals. In an additional Index all randomly published texts, i.e. texts published in periodicals and volumes of miscellaneous studies (Festschriften, Proceedings of Congresses and Colloquia, etc.), are listed under their inventory numbers in order to enable the reader to ascertain the heading under which a given text can be found.
£72.00
Peeters Publishers Semitic Linguistics in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisThe present work is conceived as a companion volume to the author's Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Its purpose is to show the birth and development of Semitic linguistics in broad lines, but also to pay a closer attention to languages which have played a minor role in the Comparative Grammar, while they are actively studied at present, viz. Middle Aramaic, Mandaic, Neo-Aramaic. Suggestions are also made for a renewed research on some conjugation forms in Old Aramaic, Classical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Epigraphic Southern Arabian, also Beja, whose links with Semitic are stronger than often assumed. Attention is paid to the existence of a "continued" aspect beside the "performed" one and the "not (yet) performed", also to the relations between Old Egyptian and Semitic, especially in the question of the correspondence of the consonants in earlier periods. Finally, the traces of an ergative grammatical system are underscored, not only in Semitic, but even more in Libyco-Berber, the Afro-Asiatic phylum which is nearest to Semitic, and closer attention is paid to research in the field of Proto-Semitic roots, apparently monosyllabic.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A
Book SynopsisJos J.S. Weitenberg, Professor of Armenian Studies at Leiden University (1994-2009), co-founder and President of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, was a scholar of global standing in Hittite, Armenian and Indo-European linguistics. The twenty-three studies by colleagues and former students gathered in this volume reflect some of the depth and breadth of Weitenberg’s scholarship: Hittite and Anatolian, to which Weitenberg made a classic contribution with Die hethitischen u-Stämme (1984), and Indo-European etymologies. Armenian dialectology is well represented, as are contributions to wider Armenian culture, and the reception of Greek literary culture in Armenian. Further studies are devoted to digital preparation of critical editions, the relationship between master and pupil as well as the Armenian reception and interpretation of Biblical and apocryphal material, to which Weitenberg contributed in Eusèbe d'Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l'édition de Venise [1980]. Fragments grecs et syriaques. Avec traductions, together with Françoise Petit and Lucas Van Rompay (2011).
£90.00
Peeters Publishers L'évolution du système verbal persan (Xe-XVIe
Book SynopsisLe persan est seule des langues iraniennes dont on puisse suivre l'histoire depuis son ancêtre le vieux perse (552-350 avant J.-C.) jusqu'à nos jours. Les études diachroniques sont néanmoins rares: on considère souvent que le persan a peu changé depuis sa renaissance littéraire au IXe siècle. S'il est vrai que le persan a moins évolué depuis Firdousi (Xe-XIe siècles) que le français depuis Chrétien de Troyes, les changements qu'il a connus sont pourtant loin d'être mineurs. Et le secteur de la langue qui a connu le plus de changements est le système verbal, objet de ce livre. S'appuyant sur un corpus de textes persans et judéo-persans, dont des manuscrits autographes, cet ouvrage étudie les questions relatives au temps, à l'aspect et au mode, du Xe au XVIe siècles. Des faits de langue sont comparés à ceux d'autres langues indo-européennes, mais aussi de langues africaines, amérindiennes ou sémitiques. Certains d'entre eux s'avèrent être des invariants, par exemple l'affaiblissement du trait de concomitance, ou la disparition et la recréation d'un mode subjonctif.
£58.05
Peeters Publishers L'énantiosémie dans le lexique de l'arabe
Book SynopsisConsidérée au départ, dans les célèbres articles d'Abel (1884-85), relayé par Freud (1910), comme une aberration linguistique qui ne saurait s'expliquer qu'en tant que scorie d'un stade primitif de l'humanité, l'énantiosémie - le fait de signifier une chose et son contraire - n'a pas beaucoup retenu l'attention des chercheurs. C'est pourquoi la première partie du livre s'attache à montrer qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène courant, comme l'avait déjà reconnu Bergier (1837), aussi bien en français qu'en anglais (ch. 1 et 2). Dans la tradition linguistique arabe, au contraire, l'énantiosémie a fait l'objet d'un grand nombre de lexiques spécialisés qui mettent les données à la portée de tous. Ces données sont interprétées ici dans le cadre de la Théorie des matrices et des étymons, qui renouvelle complètement l'organisation du lexique de l'arabe et des langues sémitiques. Il s'ensuit que l'énantiosémie est abordée au niveau des étymons en non plus des racines, ce qui accroît considérablement l'inventaire des cas. On procède à un inventaire des étymons énantiosémiques (ch. 3), avant de proposer quatre types d'explication du phénomène (ch. 4). Les étymons énantiosémiques sont alors présentés sous forme d'un lexique par ordre alphabétique (ch. 5). Enfin un chapitre est consacré aux radicaux qui, pour l'instant, ne sont pas analysables en étymons mais qui constituent néanmoins des mots «à sens contraire» (ch. 6).
£91.00
Peeters Publishers Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics IV
Book SynopsisA large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studiees. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of Kuttamuwa from Zincirli, and the inscription found at Tepe Qalaichi, Aramaic dockets from Dur-Katlimmu are re-examined, distinguishing a court ruling concerning theft, agreements regarding mortgage, guarantee, indemnity, barley and silver loans, and the particular nsk-loan. Next are examined "cadastral" reports from Idumaea, some inscriptions from Hellenistic times, a divorce bill from the Roman period, several Palmyrene dedications, epitaphs, and honorific inscriptions, as well as some Hatraean texts, mainly related to Adiabene. Finally, Mercionism is considered as background of a saying on "two gods", ascribed to Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba. Like in the preceding volumes of Studies, detailed indexes list the inscriptions, the personal names and the place-names examined, as well as other subjects.
£95.00
Peeters Publishers Le langage de l'émotion: variations linguistiques
Book SynopsisL'expression de nos émotions est-elle la même d'une langue à l'autre? À partir d'un large éventail de langues présentes sur plusieurs continents, cet ouvrage témoigne de la grande variété des modalités d'expression des émotions, en fonction des codes culturels de différentes sociétés à tradition écrite ou orale. Les situations envisagées ici vont de la communication orale spontanée dans des contextes divers aux récits en passant par la création théâtrale et la poésie. S'appuyant sur ces sources multiples, l'ouvrage expose les procédés lexicaux grammaticaux, métaphoriques et discursifs ou encore les représentations graphiques mis en oeuvre pour exprimer les émotions. De nombreux exemples montrent également que la manifestation des émotions reste sous le contrôle des normes sociales. En fonction des situations et des contextes culturels, les émotions, en raison de leur intensité, demandent à être maîtrisées ou sublimées, dans un cadre convenu et par le biais du langage. Langues présentées: anglais, arabe hassaniyya, arabe oriental, arabe saoudien, arabe du Yémen, birman, chinois ancien, dalabon, égyptien ancien, français, gbaya, haoussa, inuit, japonais, kilivila, madourais, maya classique, maya yucatèque, langues océaniennes, langues sudarabiques modernes, tamoul ancien, tamoul moderne, vietnamien, yaqui, yidiche, yulu, zande, zarma.
£80.00
Peeters Publishers Le démonstratif en français: étude de sémantique
Book SynopsisLes démonstratifs font partie des catégories grammaticales qui évoluent le plus dans les langues du monde. C'est particulièrement vrai en français, où ils connaissent une série de changements affectant tous les niveaux linguistiques (morphologie, morphosyntaxe et sémantique). Des origines du français à aujourd'hui, le système des démonstratifs s'est complètement réorganisé. Il s'est structuré autour de deux paradigmes morphosyntaxiques opposés (les pronoms et les déterminants) et s'est partiellement vidé de sa sémantique première. Cet ouvrage porte sur l'évolution sémantique des démonstratifs en français. Il est centré sur la période médiévale (9ème-15ème siècle) et montre par quelles étapes la valeur personnelle héritée du latin laisse place à une valeur plus abstraite, qui distingue les démonstratifs du français de ceux de la majorité des autres langues (romanes ou non). On y insiste sur la dimension pragmatique et cognitive de cette évolution et on s'est fondé sur la méthodologie de corpus. Ce livre s'adresse aux linguistes, enseignants-chercheurs et étudiants, qui sont spécialistes de la linguistique diachronique et du changement sémantique, mais aussi à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la sémantique référentielle, aux processus anaphoriques et déictiques, et aux évolutions typologiques qui marquent l'histoire du français.
£57.74
Peeters Publishers Essai de détermination des noms de lieux d'une
Book Synopsis
£21.85
Peeters Publishers Het 'Toponymisch Woordenboek van Maurits
Book Synopsis
£31.16
Peeters Publishers Approche comparative des langues
Book SynopsisLe présent volume enseigne, à partir des notions de base de la linguistique historique et de la grammaire comparée, les caractères généraux de la phonologie et de la morphologie indo-européennes. L'exposé ne se limite pas à la description des faits, mais prend en compte leurs rapports réciproques au sein du système de la langue. Comme les formes grammaticales n'occupent pas seulement une place dans un paradigme, mais apparaissent dans des liaisons syntagmatiques, l'ouvrage fait une large part à des citations de textes. Cette Approche comparative des langues indo-européennes comprend trois parties. La première traite du changement linguistique; la deuxième expose la méthode que requièrent la comparaison et la reconstruction; la troisième, qui est la plus développée, a pour objet le système phonique et la flexion qui caractérisent le type linguistique indo-européen.
£74.00
Peeters Publishers Le Langage Dans L'Antiquite: Avec La
Book Synopsis
£59.85
Bokforlaget Stolpe Images of Sweden Perspectives on a Nordic country
Book Synopsis
£20.00
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan: [Hindi
Book Synopsis
£80.74
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Sanskrit Grammar
Book SynopsisSimilar to Phoenician, Babylonian, ancient Greek and Tamil, Sanskrit too has an advanced grammar system. Panini was noted as one of the world's first grammarians who composed the rules of grammar, which itself is an achievement. This book, Sanskrit Grammar, is for learning Classical Sanskrit for beginners to advanced level. It contains basic and advanced grammar rules such as alphabets, numerical systems, sounds, vowels-consonants, nouns, adjectives, declensions, conjugations, compound stems, and so forth.
£53.19
Amsterdam University Press Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various (northern) European languages and texts written in them. The central themes of Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas are: how the ideas related to Lutheranism were adapted to the new areas, new languages, and new contexts during the Reformation period in the 16th and 17th centuries; and how the Reformation affected the standardization of the languages. Networks of texts, knowledge, and authors belong to the topics of the present volume. The contributions look into language use, language culture, and translation activities during the Reformation, but also in the prelude to the Reformation as well as after it, in the early modern period. The contributors are experts in the study of their respective languages, including Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, High German, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. The primary texts explored in the essays are Bible translations, but genres other than biblical are also discussed.Trade Review"[This anthology] makes an important contribution to the renewed interest in early modern European mobility and dissemination of ideas through textual networks. [...] The various contributions to this anthology provide many exciting perspectives on future interdisciplinary Reformation research."- Martin Berntson, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71 (2020)Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction Kirsi-Maria Nummila Part I The Reception of Luther's Ideas and their Influence for the Development of Written Languages 1. 'QUAE PESTIS UNQUAM TAM PERNICIOSA INVASIT GREGEM CHRISTI?' The role of the Book in the Reception of Lutheranism in England John L. Flood 2. Linguistic ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the genesis of literary Estonian Kristiina Ross 3. The Impact of Lutheran Thought on the Polish Literary Language in the 16th Century Izabela Winiarska-Górska Part II Effects of Bible Translations on the Evolution of Written Language 4. The Czech Language in Confessional Clashes of the 16th Century Robert Dittmann 5. The Swedish Bible translations and the transition from Old Swedish to Early Modern Swedish Jonathan Pettersson Part III Reuse of (Catholic) Texts after the Reformation 6. The Infant Jesus and his Mother in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture Elise Kleivane and Svanhildur Ôskarsdóttir 7. Frühneuzeitliche Summarien - erbauliche, laienexegetische Bibelberichte als polemische Plattformen im beginnenden Zeitalter der Konfessionalisierung - Ein Vergleich zwischen Stephan Rodts Übertragung der neutestamentlichen Summarien Johannes Bugenhagens mit denen Veit Dietrichs sowie Johann Dietenbergers Sebastian Seyferth 8. Early Finnish translations of the hymn Te Deum laudamus Tanja Toropainen Part IV Language Contacts and Loanwords 9. Traces of Low German Influence in the Finnish Texts of Mikael Agricola? Mikko Bentlin 10. Polyglossia and nativization: The translation of zoonyms in early Dutch Bibles Merlijn de Smit 11. Medical Discourse in the Oldest Lithuanian Lutheran Texts Dainora Poci?t? 12. German Influence on the Christian Discourse of Early Written Latvian P?teris Vanags Contributors Index
£116.85
Amsterdam University Press Gabelentz and the Science of Language
Book SynopsisThe German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840—1893) occupies a crucial place in linguistic scholarship around the end of the nineteenth century. As professor at the University of Leipzig and then at the University of Berlin, Gabelentz was present at the main centers of linguistics of the time. He was, however, generally critical of the narrow, technical focus of mainstream historical-comparative linguistics as practiced by the Neogrammarians and instead emphasized approaches to language inspired by a line of researchers stemming from Wilhelm von Humboldt. Gabelentz’ alternative conception of linguistics led him to several pioneering insights into language that anticipated elements of the structuralist revolution of the early twentieth century. Gabelentz and the Science of Language brings together four essays that explore Gabelentz’ contributions to linguistics from a historical perspective. In addition, it makes one of his key theoretical texts, ‘Content and Form of Speech’, available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.Trade Review"The book consists of five chapters written by specialists in 19th-century German linguistics and offers as a final chapter a bilingual edition of a major section of Die Sprachwissenschaft of Gabelentz (published in 1891, a second edition published in 1901, cf. Gabelentz 2016 [1891]. [...] In addition to the five previous chapters, each of which illuminates one facet of Gabelentz's multiple gifts, the critical and bilingual edition of J. McElvenny is particularly welcome."- Jacques François, Université de Caen Normandie, Historiographia Linguistica, volume 47:2/3 (2020) "L’ouvrage ici présenté exprime une double ambition. Il participe d’une part de cette volonté de situer Gabelentz tout à la fois dans son univers culturel et par rapport aux préoccupations des linguistes d’aujourd’hui. Mais il fournit simultanément au lectorat non germaniste un accès direct à l’œuvre elle-même, puisque la plus grosse partie du livre (p. 132-313) est constituée d’une édition bilingue (anglais-allemand) d’un chapitre important de Sprachwissenschaft.- Didier Samain, Sorbonne Université, HTL, Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 42/2 (2020)Table of ContentsContents 1. Introduction James McElvenny 2. The Gabelentz family in their own words Annemete von Vogel & James McElvenny 3. Georg von der Gabelentz as a pioneer of information structure Els Elffers 4. The Basque-Berber connection of Georg von der Gabelentz Bernhard Hurch & Katrin Purgay 5. Phenomenological aspects of Georg von der Gabelentz's Die Sprachwissenschaft Klaas Willems 6. Content and Form of Speech Georg von der Gabelentz, James McElvenny & Manfred Ringmacher
£107.35
Amsterdam University Press Ecologies of Translation in East and South East
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the Sinographic sphere, and on the other, practices of translational multilingualism (competence in multiple spoken languages to produce a fully localized target text). Translations from plain Chinese are shown to carve out new ecologies of translations that not only enrich our understanding of early modern translation practices across the Sinographic sphere, but also demonstrate that the transregional uses of a non-alphabetic graphic technology call for different models of translation theory.Trade Review''This welcome book introduces translation of vernacular languages in the context of the multi- and bi lingualism of East Asia and South East Asia during the period between 1600 and 1900... A strength of the book is its scholarly in-depth research on particular translations. In other ways too, this volume is extremely valuable... I hope this volume will contribute to a meaningful dialogue between different groups of scholars working on translation.'' - Nana Sato-Rossberg, International Journal of Asian Studies , 2 May 2023 Table of ContentsIntroduction "Scriptworlds, Vernacularization, and Shifting Translations Norms," (Peter Knornicki, Patricia Sieber, and Li Guo) Chapter 1 "On Not Being Shallow: Examination Essays, Songbooks, and the Translational Nature of Mixed-Register Literature in Early Modern China," (Patricia Sieber) Chapter 2 "A Faithful Translation: Ts.zoku sangokushiSanguozhi yanyi," (Matthew Fraleigh) Chapter 3 "Romance of the Two Kingdoms: Okajima Kanzan’s Chinese Explication of 'The Annals of Pacification' (Taiheiki engi)," (William Hedberg) Chapter 4 "Speaking the Sinitic: Translation and 'Chinese Language' in Eighteenth-Century Japan," (Yuan Ye) Chapter 5 "'Body Borrowed, Soul Returned': An Adaptation of a Chinese Buddhist Miraculous Tale into a Vietnamese Classic Theatrical Script," (Nguy.n Tô Lan) Chapter 6 "Out of the Margins: The Western Wing ... Glossarial Complex in Late Chos.n and the Problem of the Literary Vernacular," (Ross King) Chapter 7 "Vernacular Eloquence in Fiction Glossaries of Late Chos.n Korea," (Si Nae Park) Chapter 8 "Imagined Orality: Mun Hanmy.ng's Late 19th-Century Approach to Sinitic Literacy," (Xiaoqiao Ling and Young Oh) Chapter 9 "Linguistic Transformation and Cultural Reconstruction: Translations of Gorky’s 'Kain and Artem' in Japan and China," (Xiaolu Ma)
£101.65
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian
Book Synopsis
£69.56
