Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Brill Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Volume 2: Volume Two: b-, p-, f-
Book SynopsisThe multi-volume Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian by Gábor Takács "promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative lingustics" (A. Dolgopolsky, in Israel Oriental Studies). This second volume is in fact the first volume of the very etymological dictionary. It comprises the Egyptian words with initial b-, p-, and f-. The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field.Trade ReviewReviews of volume 1: Prof. A. Zaborski (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, Warszawa) : '...the publication of the dictionary is 'a historic event'…' Prof. A. Dogolpolsky (Israel Oriental Studies): '…promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic linguistics.'
£271.58
Brill A History of the Greek Language: From its Origins to the Present
Book SynopsisGreek is one of the few languages still known to us after three thousand years that are still spoken today. In this English translation of Francisco Rodríguez Adrados’s Historia de lengua griega, an overview is presented of the development of the Greek language at its different stages. Professor Adrados touches on a rich variety of topics, making A History of the Greek Language into a colourful collection of linguistic ideas.
£136.80
Brill Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese. Second Edition
Book SynopsisThis is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special attention has been given to the theory and practice of lexically-based historical-comparative linguistics. The genetic relationship of Koguryo to Japanese is shown to be secure, unlike the non-relationship of either language to Korean or 'Altaic', and much light is shed on the ethnolinguistic origins of Japanese. The special phonological features of the underlying transcriptional language, the archaic northeastern Middle Chinese dialect once spoken in Korea, are also analyzed.
£143.20
Brill A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex): Fascicle 9, bdn - brhn
Book SynopsisFrom the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of these translations. It is an indispensable reference tool for the study and understanding of Arabic scientific and philosophical language and literature, and for the knowledge of the vocabulary of Classical and Middle Greek and the reception and reading of classical Greek works in late antiquity and pre-Photian Byzantine literature.Trade Review"...an extremely valuable and updated bibliography of Greek-Arabic texts." Gotthard Strohmaier in JSAI 39 (2012), 463-465.
£117.60
Brill Dictionary of Arabic and allied loanwords: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and kindred dialects
Book SynopsisOne of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, etc. by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English.
£272.00
Brill The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages
Book SynopsisIn 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.
£139.20
Brill The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century
Book SynopsisHandwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Southern Min or Hokkien, and a spectacular source text for present-day linguistics. Its author, a Spanish Dominican missionary, worked among the Chinese settlers in Manila or “Sangleys”. The first part of The Language of the Sangleys is an in-depth analysis of the Arte in its historical, social and linguistic contexts. The second part offers an annotated transcript and translation of the Arte, including facsimiles of the original manuscript, making this study eminently fit for classroom use. Combining sophisticated theory and method with meticulous philology, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.Trade Review'..., the apparatus and analytical framework employed by K[löter] are perhaps the most rigorous and meticulous yet seen in treatments of comparable missionary linguistic records of Chinese. All subsequent contributions in this area will perforce be held to the standards now established in the present work.(..) K[loeter]’s book must now take precedence over all previous treatments. It will be of special interest to students of the new and growing field of missionary linguistics,the history of Western contact with China in general, and the specialty of Mǐn comparative and historical dialectology in particular. Though the book will of course be valuable primarily as a reference source, the introductory material in the chapters of Part I, together with the rigorous editorial methodology manifested in the second part, may also serve as a sort of manual for anyone who pursues future work in this and related fields.' W. South Coblin, University of Iowa, Historiographia Linguistica XXXIX:1 (2012), 'The Arte manuscript may be the oldest surviving document presenting an extensive grammar of a Chinese language. In this solid and detailed study of the Arte,which includes a transcript and translation of the missionary text, together with a full set of beautiful color facsimile plates of the original manuscript, Henning Klöter has produced a useful volume that will allow many to explore this fascinating document.' RICHARD VANNESS SIMMONS, Rutgers University, Journal of Asian Studies, 71,3
£167.20
Brill Linguistic Variety of Judaeo-Arabic in Letters from the Cairo Genizah
Book SynopsisThe Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology. "...in the extant volume she [Wagner] has clearly demonstrated that Judeo-Arabic letters are to be viewed as primary source material, capturing important aspects of language understanding of Jews and Judaism in the medieval and early modern Islamic world, and therefore providing essential insights into the linguistic function of a substandard language or ethnolect like Judeo-Arabic." Wout van Bekkum, BiOr no. LXX 3/4Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. General Methodology 3. Corpus 4. Phonology and Orthography 5. Morphology 6. Letter Style, Presentation and Lexicon 7. Syntax 8. General Trends in the Judaeo-Arabic Letters from the Genizah
£139.20
Brill Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver
Book SynopsisWilliam Diver of Columbia University (1921-1995) critiqued the very roots of traditional and contemporary linguistics and founded a school of thought that aims for radical aposteriorism in accounting for the distribution of linguistic forms in authentic text. Grammatical and phonological analyses of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin, and Modern English reveal language to be an instrument whose structure is shaped by its communicative function and by the peculiarly human characteristics of its users. Diver's foundational works, many never before published, appear here newly edited and annotated, with introductions by the editors. The volume presents for the first time to a wide audience the depth and originality of Diver's iconoclastic thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Enduring Legacy of William Diver Alan Huffman PART I: INTRODUCTION TO DIVER’S THOUGHT 1. Substance and Value in Linguistic Analysis William Diver 2. The Nature of Linguistic Meaning William Diver 3. The Elements of a Science of Language William Diver PART II: GREEK 4. The Dual William Diver 5. Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Linguistic Analysis and Linguistic Theory William Diver 6. The System of Relevance of the Homeric Verb William Diver 7. Spheres of Interaction: Linguistic Analysis and Literary Analysis William Diver PART III: LATIN 8. The Subjunctive Without Syntax William Diver 9. Latin Voice and Case William Diver and Joseph Davis 10. Avoidance of the Obvious: The Pronoun as a Minimax Solution William Diver 11. The Latin Demonstratives William Diver 12. Latin se William Diver PART IV: PHONOLOGY 13. Phonology as Human Behavior William Diver 14. The Phonology of the Extremes Or, What is a Problem? William Diver and Joseph Davis 15. The Phonological Motivation for Verner’s Law and Grimm’s Law William Diver and Alan Huffman PART V: LINGUISTIC THEORIES 16. Traditional Grammar and Its Legacy in Twentieth-Century Linguistics William Diver, Joseph Davis, and Wallis Reid 17. Theory William Diver Part VI: RECAPITULATION: THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS 18. The History of Linguistics in the West: How the Study of Language Went Wrong in the Western Tradition William Diver Bibliography of William Diver General Bibliography
£236.80
Brill Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony
Book SynopsisIn recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA). At these conferences, the members of AIMA discuss the latest insights into the definition, terminology, and research methods of Middle and Mixed Arabic. Results of various discussions in this field are to be found in the present book, which contains articles describing and analysing the linguistic features of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia. Contributors include: Berend Jan Dikken, Lutz Edzard, Jacques Grand’Henry, Bruno Halflants, Benjamin Hary, Rachel Hasson Kenat, Johannes den Heijer, Amr Helmy Ibrahim, Paolo La Spisa, Jérôme Lentin, Gunvor Mejdell, Arie Schippers, Yosef Tobi, Kees de Vreugd, Manfred Woidich, and Otto Zwartjes.Trade Review"The papers collected here represent the best of the conference volume genre, comprising a sharing of findings in an ongoing research enterprise with the broader scholarly community. The contributors are all active scholars in the field, most with long publication records." David Wilmsen, Linguist List, 09-12-2012, http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-5132.html.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Middle and Mixed Arabic, a new trend in Arabic Studies Johannes den Heijer 2. Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes de l’arabe : premier essai de bibliographie Supplément n° 1 Jérôme Lentin 3. Some remarks about Middle Arabic and Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Pentateuch in manuscripts of Jewish, Samaritan, Coptic Christian, and Muslim provenance Berend Jan Dikken 4. Linguistic and cultural features of an Iraqi Judeo-Arabic text of the qiṣaṣ al-ʾanbiyāʾ genre Lutz Edzard 5. Deux types de moyen arabe dans la version arabe du discours 41 de Grégoire de Nazianze ? Jacques Grand’Henry 6. Présentation du livre Le Conte du Portefaix et des Trois Jeunes Femmes, dans le manuscrit de Galland (XIVe-XVe siècles) Bruno Halflants 7. Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed Language Benjamin Hary 8. The story of Zayd and Kaḥlāʾ – A folk story in a Judaeo-Arabic manuscript Rachel Hasson Kenat 9. Towards an inventory of Middle and Mixed Arabic features: the inscriptions of Deir Mar Musa (Syria) as a case Study Johannes den Heijer 10. Qui est arabophone? Les variétés de l’arabe dans la définition d’une compétence native Amr Helmy Ibrahim 11. Perspectives ecdotiques pour textes en moyen arabe : l’exemple des traités théologiques de Sulaymān al-Ġazzī Paolo La Spisa 12. Normes orthographiques en moyen arabe : sur la notation du vocalisme bref Jérôme Lentin 13. Playing the same game? Notes on comparing spoken contemporary Mixed Arabic and (pre)modern written Middle Arabic Gunvor Mejdell 14. Middle Arabic in Moshe Darʿī’s Judaeo-Arabic Poems Arie Schippers 15. Written Judeo-Arabic: Colloquial versus Middle Arabic Yosef Tobi 16. Yefet ben ʽEli’s Commentary on the Book of Zechariah Kees de Vreugd 17. Damascus Arabic according to the Compendio of Lucas Caballero (1709) Otto Zwartjes and Manfred Woidich List of Contributors Appendix: Colour illustrations from Lucas Caballero’s Compendio Index
£168.80
Brill The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact
Book SynopsisIn The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a truly global analysis of one of the most extreme cases of language contact, where the Malays changed the whole morphosyntax of their language in as little as just over three centuries. The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.Trade Review"This volume is an excellent example of how the synergy of different linguistic fields can yield a tangible result. Reading through the volume, one gets a very clear picture of how far linguists have come in understanding the origins and formation of SLM. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay will be of great value not only to linguists interested in SLM, but also to scholars interested in language contact, language change, creolization, sociolinguistics, and language policy." – Francesca R. Moro, in: Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 1/2 (2014), pp. 223-228 "This book will be of great value to linguists interested in the importance of socio-historical context in the development of contact languages and the interaction of structural features between languages in contact." – Felicity Meakins, The University of Queensland, on: Linguist ListTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations PART I OVERVIEW 1. Introduction Sebastian Nordhoff 2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka Malay Sebastian Nordhoff PART II SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY 3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts Peter Bakker 4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay Research Peter Slomanson 5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis Romola Rassool PART III LANGUAGE CONTACT 6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited Scott Paauw 7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay James W. Gair 8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay Ian Smith 9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay Mohamed Jaffar 10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process Sebastian Nordhoff Index
£152.77
Brill Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories: Linguistic, Literary and Historical Perspectives
Book SynopsisIn Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories Camilla Di Biase-Dyson applies systemic functional linguistics, literary theory and New Historicist approaches to four of the Late Egyptian Stories and shows how language was exploited to establish the narrative roles of literary protagonists. The analysis reveals the shifting power dynamics between the Doomed Prince and his foreign wife and the parody in the depiction of the Hyksos ruler Apophis and his Theban counterpart Seqenenre. It also sheds light on the weight of history in the sketch of the Rebel of Joppa and the general Djehuty and explains the interplay of social expectations in the encounters between the envoy Wenamun and the Levantine princes with whom he seeks to trade. "Overall, Di Biase-Dyson’s monograph is an original interdisciplinary examination of an exciting corpus of ancient literary texts." Nikolaos Lazaridis, Journal of Near Eastern StudiesTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Methodology Chapter 3: Characterisation in The Doomed Prince Chapter 4: Characterisation in The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre and The Taking of Joppa Chapter 5: Characterisation in The Misfortunes of Wenamun Chapter 6: Findings and Discussion Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendices: Transcription, Translation and Grammatical Analysis Bibliography
£236.32
Brill Tibeto-Mongolica Revisited: With a New Introduction and Selected Papers on Tibetan Linguistics
Book SynopsisBased on the Tibetan loanwords in an archaic Mongolic language, the author reconstructed an unknown Tibetan dialect which pertains to the North Eastern Archaic Tibetan group. The result is compared with the data known from other NEAT dialects, with the material of the West Archaic Tibetan languages such as Balti, Purig and Ladak, and also with the non-archaic dialects from Central Tibet and Lhasa. With the use of Literary Tibetan and data from Old Tibetan, Tibeto-Mongolica proposes a new approach to the reconstruction of the history of the Tibetan language. Originally published in 1966, and long out of print, the book has served as a standard handbook for historical Tibetan studies for several generations of scholars and is now updated by a new Introduction and enhanced by reprints of a selection of the author’s relevant Tibetological papers.
£212.34
Brill A Greek and Arabic Lexicon (GALex): Materials for a Dictionary of the Mediaeval Translations from Greek into Arabic. Fascicle 11, بعد to بكى
Book SynopsisFrom the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of these translations. It is an indispensable reference tool for the study and understanding of Arabic scientific and philosophical language and literature, and for the knowledge of the vocabulary of Classical and Middle Greek and the reception and reading of classical Greek works in late antiquity and pre-Photian Byzantine literature.
£126.47
Brill Eight Decades of General Linguistics: The History of CIPL and Its Role in the History of Linguistics
Book SynopsisEight Decades of General Linguistics presents the key lectures delivered at the eighteen conferences organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists and also a history of the Committee itself. The contributions of outstanding scholars such as Otto Jesperson, Louis Hjelmslev, André Martinet, Uriel Weinreich, Noam Chomsky and many other linguists cannot be over-estimated. The majority of the papers address a radically new topic, each of which became one of the central issues in subsequent linguistic research. In addition to their empirical findings and/or the theoretical innovations presented in their papers, each contribution is still interesting and pivotal to the development of contemporary linguistics.
£48.00
Brill Experiential Constructions in Latin
Book SynopsisThis volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.
£124.80
Brill Introduction to Avestan
Book SynopsisThis Introduction to Avestan provides a concise grammar of the Avestan language, the language of the followers of the Iranian prophet Zarathustra. The grammar focuses on spelling, phonology and morphology, but also includes a chapter on syntax. Abundant information on the historical development of the language is included, which renders the grammar very useful for students of Indo-Iranian and Indo-European. Also, a small number of selected Avestan texts is added, with a complete glossary, so that students can practise reading Avestan.
£44.80
Brill Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics
Book SynopsisIn Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics, Barbara McGillivray presents some of the most significant methodological foundations of the emerging field of Latin Computational Linguistics. The reader will find an overview of the computational resources and tools available for Latin and three corpus case studies covering morpho-syntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of Latin verb valency, as well as quantitative diachronic explorations of the argument realization of Latin prefixed verbs. The computational models and the multivariate data analysis techniques employed are explained with a detailed but accessible language. Barbara McGillivray convincingly shows the challenges and opportunities of combining computational methods and historical language data, and contributes to driving the technological change that is affecting Historical Linguistics and the Humanities.Trade Review"this book makes a unique contribution to the field, both by expanding existing Latin resources as well as encouraging greater interdisciplinary research among scholars from such disparate fields as historical linguistics and computer science." Onna Nelson, The Linguist List 25.3396,
£119.20
Brill Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change
Book SynopsisA basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a “strong” way, most of the chapters – especially those based on corpus data – show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.
£152.00
Brill Questioning Language Contact: Limits of Contact, Contact at its Limits
Book SynopsisThis volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, language practices, semiotic developments)? How should linguistic theory incorporate the empirical findings of language contact studies, and how could these alter underlying postulates of existing models (choice of analysis and epistemic framework)? Which role has language contact been playing in the history of linguistic research and academic life? And how has this idea influenced individual researchers and their approaches?
£164.80
Brill Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics
Book SynopsisQuantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundamental questions such as: how to identify and account for areal distributions, when language contact leads to grammatical simplification, whether patterns of morphological borrowing can be predicted, how to deal with contact within phylogenetic models, and what new techniques are most effective for classification of the world’s languages. The book is relevant for students and scholars in general linguistics, typology, and historical and comparative linguistics.
£58.40
Brill The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702): A Social History of the Use of Dutch in Early Modern Britain
Book SynopsisIn The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702) Christopher Joby offers an account of the knowledge and use of Dutch in early modern Britain. Using extensive archive material from Britain and the Low Countries, Chris Joby demonstrates that Dutch was both written and spoken in a range of social domains including the church, work, learning, the home, diplomacy, the military and navy, and the court. Those who used the language included artisans and their families fleeing religious and economic turmoil on the continent; the Anglo-Dutch King, William III; and Englishmen such as the scientist Robert Hooke. Joby’s account adds both to our knowledge of the use of Dutch in the early modern period and multilingualism in Britain at this time.
£140.00
Brill Construcciones posesivas en español
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationships between possession, existence and location. After revising the conceptualization of possession in Latin, the analysis is extended to Spanish. From this perspective, certain possession constructions in Spanish are examined. First of all, it is argued that all datives are related to possession in dative constructions; secondly, the characterizing features of the transitive, intransitive and reflexive variants are determined in constructions with psychological verbs; and, finally, the existence of comitative possession in Spanish is proved by the analysis of comitative constructions.Table of ContentsÍndice Presentación 9 I. Relaciones posesivas 13 1. Introducción 13 2. Posesión y localización 14 3. Subdominios de posesión 18 4. Esquemas de posesión 24 5. Habilidad del punto de referencia 31 6. Posesión locativa: del indoeuropeo al latín 33 7. Esquema posesivo latino 42 7.1. Verbos de afección y posesión 43 7.2. Esquemas de imagen de contenedor y de transferencia 46 II. Dativos posesivos 59 1. Introducción 59 2. Dativo y complemento indirecto: forma y función 63 3. La interpretación semántica de los complementos indirectos 67 3.1. Experimentadores y localización 66 3.2. Transferencia y localización 68 4. Dativo simpatético 71 5. Tipos de dativos posesivos 77 5.1. Verbos de pertenencia 77 5.1.1. Pertenencia metafórica 78 5.2. Verbos posesivos 88 5.3. Verbos de adecuación 91 5.4. Verbos copulativos y pseudocopulativos 93 5.5. Verbos con fusión argumental de desplazamiento y figura 95 5.6. Verbos de igualdad o similitud 96 5.7. Verbos de cambio de estado 97 5.7.1. Dativo ético 102 6. Dativos posesivo-locativos 107 6.1. Verbos de afección psíquica 107 6.2. Acusativo partitivo 109 6.3. Construcciones partitivas direccionales 112 6.4. Verbos de manera de posición indicando contacto 114 6.5. Verbos de remoción 115 6.6. Verbos de objeto construido 116 6.7. Verbos locatum 119 6.8. Verbos en derredor 121 6.9. Verbos direccionales 122 6.10. Verbos estativos 126 7. Tipos de dativos 129 8. Conclusiones 132 III. Verbos de afección psíquica 137 1. Introducción 137 2. Sujetos caprichosos 141 3. Alternancias y valores aspectuales 147 3.1. Grado de agentividad del sujeto 150 3.2. El contenido aspectual de la predicación 157 4. Fusión e incorporación 167 5. Causativos denominales 170 6. Causativos deadjetivales 177 7. Causativos latinos 184 7.1. Verbos deadjetivales/denominales 184 7.2. Verbos con significado causativo 186 7.3. Verbos con etimología confusa 189 8. Construcciones biactanciales con verbos de afección física 190 8.1. Verbos físicos con sujeto no agentivo 190 8.2. Verbos de afección física de causa interna 191 8.3. Verbos de modificación de estado 193 8.4. Verbos con fusión de desplazamiento y figura 196 8.5. Verbos con sujeto partitivo y causa externa 197 8.6. Verbos de desarrollo temporal 199 8.7. Verbos transitivos de cambio de estado físico 200 9. Conclusiones 206 IV. Construcciones posesivas de compañía 213 1. Introducción 213 2. Construcciones posesivas comitativas en portugués 215 3. Construcciones posesivas comitativas en las lenguas románicas 217 4. Construcciones atributivas y esquemas de compañía 220 5. Posesión comitativa en español 225 5.1. Estar con 226 5.2. Quedar con 236 5.3. Estar sin y quedar sin 244 5.4. Verbos pseudocopulativos 247 5.4.1. Verbos locales estativos y de desplazamiento 247 5.4.2. Mantener y conservar 253 5.4.3. Verbos con valor temporal 255 6. Conclusiones 268 V. Conclusiones 273 Referencias bibliográficas 285
£89.60
Brill A Grammar of Kurtöp
Book SynopsisA grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists.Trade Review[...], this book will prove indispensible for anyone interested in reconstructing the common ancestors of Tibetan and East Bodish languages and as such is undoubtedly a welcome addition to the expanding field of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics - Joanna Bialek, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
£141.60
Brill The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Qumran Hebrew Texts
Book SynopsisIn The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial. Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author’s selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts.
£120.80
Brill Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, Band 74 (2015)
Table of ContentsThomas L. Markey: Bracteate Gestation and its Diction Luca Panieri: Einige Fälle von allophonischem Wechsel von germ. */ō/ in unbetonter Silbe Dieter Schürr: Walhakurn: nordische Reflexe eines römischen Motivs Peter Alexander Kerkhoff: Moddu. baas, langobard. barbas and their Etymologies Andreas Nievergelt & Chris de Wulf: De griffelglossen in het handschrift Parijs BnF Lat. 9389 Paula Vermeyden†: Das Bild des Snorri Godi in der Eyrbyggja saga Erika Langbroek: So viel geschrieben, so wenig geblieben. Eine neue Entdeckung: unbekannte friesische Psalmglossen A. H. Touber: Troubadours und Minnesänger Gesine Mierke: Genealogie und Intertextualität. Zu Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival und Wirnts von Grafenberg Wigalois Edward G. Fichtner: History and Legend in Diu Klage Bart Besamusca, Gareth Griffith, Matthias Meyer, & Hannah Morcos: Author Attributions in Medieval Text Collections: An Exploration Hans Fix: Barend Sijmons an Andreas Heusler – sieben Briefe zwischen 1896 und 1930 Besprechungen Ulrich Hoffmann. Arbeit an der Literatur. Zur Mythizität der Artusromane Hart¬manns von Aue (Beiträge zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Mediä-vistik 2). - Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012 (Albrecht Classen) Loher und Maller: Kritische Edition eines spätmittelalterlichen Prosaepos. Hrsg. von Ute von Bloh unter Mitarbeit von Silke Winst (Texte des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit 50), Berlin 2013 (Albrecht Classen) Zwischen Herrschaft und Kunst. Fürstliche und adlige Frauen im Zeitalter Elisabeths von Nassau-Saarbrücken (14.-16. Jh.). Hg. von Wolfgang Haubrichs und Patricia Oster. (Veröffentlichungen für Saarländische Landesgeschichte und Volksforschung 44) Saarbrücken 2013 (Claudia Daiber) Eckart Conrad Lutz, Susanne Köbele und Klaus Ridder (Hgg.), Wolfram-Studien XXII. Finden - Gestalten - Vermitteln. Schreibprozesse und ihre Brechungen in der mittelalterlichen Überlieferung. Freiburger Collo-quium 2010, Berlin, 2012 (Erika Langbroek) Jerold C. Frakes (Hg.), Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse, The new Middle Ages, New York, 2011 (Erika Langbroek) Ulrike Bodemann, Peter Schmidt und Christine Stöllinger-Löser (Hgg.), Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittel-alters.Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Aka¬demie der Wissenschaften, Band 4/1, Lieferung 3, (Stoffgruppe) 37. Fabeln. Bearbeitet von Ulrike Bodemann unter Mitarbeit von Kristina Domanski. - München, 2012 (Erika Langbroek) Ulrike Bodemann, Kristina Freienhagen-Baumgardt und Peter Schmidt (Hgg.), Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittel¬alters. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 6, Lieferung 1, (Stoffgruppe) 44. Geistliche Lehren und Erbauungsbücher. Christine Stöllinger-Löser unter Mitarbeit von Peter Schmidt, München, 2013 (Erika Langbroek) Wolfram Euler, Das Westgermanische von der Herausbildung im 3. bis zur Auf¬gliederung im 7. Jahrhundert. Analyse und Rekonstruktion, London/ Berlin 2013 (Karl-Heinz Mottausch) Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff. The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 20)., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2013 (Boris Paraschkewow) Michelle Waldispühl, Schreibpraktiken und Schriftwissen in südgerma-nischen Ru¬nen¬inschriften. Zur Funktionalität epigraphischer Schriftver-wendung (Medien¬wandel – Me¬dienwechsel – Medienwissen. Band 26)., Zürich 2013 (Arend Quak) Angelika O’Sullivan. Waffenbezeichnungen in althochdeutschen Glossen. Sprach- und kulturhistorische Analysen und Wörterbuch (Lingua Histo-rica Germanica. Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Band 5), Berlin 2013 (Arend Quak) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeut¬schen unter der Leitung von Rosemarie Lühr erarbeitet von Harald Bichlmeier, Maria Kozianka und Roland Schuhmann mit Beiträgen von Albert L. Lloyd unter Mitarbeit von Karen K. Purdy. Band V. iba-luzzilo., Göttingen/Bristol, USA 2014 (Arend Quak) Ernst Hellgardt (Hg.). Die spätalthochdeutschen 'Wessobrunner Predigten' im Über¬lie¬ferungsverbund mit dem 'Wiener Notker'. Eine neue Aus¬gabe, Berlin 2014 (Arend Quak) Klaus-Peter Wegera, Simone Schultz-Balluff, Nina Bartsch, Mittelhoch-deutsch als fremde Sprache. Eine Einführung für das Studium der ger-manistischen Mediä¬vistik. 2. neu bearbeitete Auflage. - Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2013. 236 S. ill. (ISBN978-3-503-13766-4); Nina Bartsch, Simone Schultz-Balluff, Klaus-Peter Wegera, Mittelhoch¬deutsch als fremde Sprache. Didaktischer Leitfaden und Lösungs¬schlüssel, Berlin 2013 (Arend Quak) Karl G. Johansson & Rune Flaten (Hgg,), Francia et Germania. Studies in Streng¬leikar and Þiðreks saga af Bern (Bibliotheca Nordica 5)., Oslo 2012 (Arend Quak) Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch. Band III, Teil 2. Sechsunddreißig-ste/Sieben¬und¬drei¬ßigste Lieferung: u bis undernēmen. Bearbeitet von Jürgen Meier und Dieter Möhn. - Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2013 (Arend Quak)
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Brill La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: Textes, contextes, analyses
Book SynopsisLa langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval de Mohamed Meouak offre une ample étude géo-historique de la langue berbère basée sur l’examen critique de nombreuses sources rédigées en arabe et en berbère, du Moyen ge à la période moderne. La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval by Mohamed Meouak offers a wide geo-historical study of the Berber language based on the critical examination of many sources written in Arabic and Berber, from the Middle Ages to the Modern period.
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Brill Semitic Languages in Contact
Book SynopsisSemitic Languages in Contact contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages. With contributions from A. Al-Jallad, A. Al-Manaser, D. Appleyard, S. Boyd, Y. Breuer, M. Bulakh, D. Calabro, E. Cohen, R. Contini, C. J. Crisostomo, L. Edzard, H. Hardy, U. Horesh, O. Jastrow, L. Kahn, J. Lam, M. Neishtadt, M. Oren, P. Pagano, A. D. Rubin, L. Sayahi, J.Tubach, J. P. Vita, and T. Zewi.Trade ReviewThis rich and remarkable volume carefully edited by Aaron Michael Butts in the Brill series on Semitic linguistics offers a wide spectrum of cases of interference in Semitic and provides materials for general reflection on the phenomenon. - Alessandro Bausi, Universität Hamburg In: Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 19 (2016). Undoubtedly, this sondage, with its considerable breadth of method, topic, languages and chronological span, will stimulate further studies in such a fascinating and challenging field. We look forward to the next volume. - W.G.E. Watson in: Journal of Semitic Studies vol 63, issue 1 (Spring 2018).Table of ContentsA Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order Ahmad Al-Jallad and Ali Al-Manaser Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic David Appleyard Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny 'sr in Exodus 19:18 Samuel Boyd and Humphrey Hardy The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations Yochanan Breuer The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative 1sg Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages Maria Bulakh Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt David Calabro Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in Kurdish Eran Cohen Notes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic Riccardo Contini and Paola Pagano Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium bce C. Jay Crisostomo Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates Lutz Edzard Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew Uri Horesh Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Turoyo Otto Jastrow Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale Lily Kahn Possible Ugaritic Influences on the Hurrian of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in Alphabetic Script Joseph Lam The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian Arabic Mila Neishtadt The Classification of Hobyot Aaron D. Rubin Expression of Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact Lotfi Sayahi Aramaic Loanwords in G ' z Jurgen Tubach Language Contact between Akkadian and Northwest Semitic Languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age Juan-Pablo Vita Semitic Languages in Contact-Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation Tamar Zewi and Mikhal Oren Index
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Brill A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
Book SynopsisIn A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, Norquest presents a reconstruction of Proto-Hlai based on data from twelve Hlai languages spoken on Hainan, China. This reconstruction includes chapters on both the Proto-Hlai initials and rimes, and original sesquisyllabic forms are shown to be necessary to account for the reflexes between the daughter languages. A comparison is made between Proto-Hlai and Proto-Tai, and a preliminary reconstruction of Proto Southern Kra-Dai (the immediate ancestor of Proto-Hlai) is performed. When this is compared with Proto-Hlai, it is shown that several important sound changes occurred between Pre-Hlai and Proto-Hlai. The aberrant Jiamao language is also examined, focusing on its complex contact relationships with other Hlai languages.
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Brill The Translation Chapter of the Late Ming Lulongsai Lüe: Bilingual Sections of a Chinese Military Collection
Book SynopsisIn this book, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky offers a complete reconstruction of the Chinese-Mongol vocabulary of the 17th century comprehensive Chinese military work called Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略, LLSL), a document of key importance containing one of the last Sino-Mongol glossaries without proper critical reconstruction until now. The work has resulted in a clarification of the earlier sources the compilers of LLSL used in the bilingual part. The author argues that contrary to what scholars have thought of it until now, the linguistic corpus of the glossary is not homogeneous and does not represent a single linguistic status; it does, however, shed some light on chronological and philological questions concerning the earlier works incorporated in it.
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Brill Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919
Book SynopsisThe authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock’s findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding East Asian languages between 1000 and 1919. Using new sources, making new connections, and re-examining old assumptions, we have asked whether and why East and SE Asian languages (e.g., Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Jurchen, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese) should be analysed in light of a Eurocentric dichotomy of Latin versus vernaculars. This discussion has encouraged us to explore whether European modernity is an appropriate standard at all for East Asia. Individually and collectively, we have sought to establish linkages between societies without making a priori assumptions about the countries’ internal structures or the genealogy of their connections. Contributors include: Benjamin Elman; Peter Kornicki; John Phan; Wei Shang; Haruo Shirane; Mårten Söderblom Saarela; Daniel Trambaiolo; Atsuko Ueda; Sixiang Wang.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Languages in East and South Asia, 1000–1919 - Benjamin A. Elman 2. The Vernacularization of Buddhist Texts: From the Tangut Empire to Japan - Peter Kornicki 3. The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge, and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea - Wang Sixiang 4. Rebooting the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam - John D. Phan 5. Mediating the Literary Classics: Commentary and Translation in Premodern Japan - Haruo Shirane 6. The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan - Daniel Trambaiolo 7. The Manchu Script and Information Management: Some Aspects of Qing China’s Great Encounter with Alphabetic Literacy - Mårten Söderblom Saarela 8. Unintended Consequences of Classical Literacies for the Early Modern Chinese Civil Examinations - Benjamin A. Elman 9. Competing “Languages”: “Sound” in the Orthographic Reforms of Early Meiji Japan - Atsuko Ueda 10. Writing and Speech: Rethinking the Issue of Vernaculars in Early Modern China - Shang Wei Contributors Index
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Brill Tense and Text in Classical Arabic: A Discourse-oriented Study of the Classical Arabic Tense System
Book SynopsisIn Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a new discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. Critical of commonly held assumptions regarding the binary structure of the tense system and the perfect-imperfect asymmetry, the author redefines the discussion by analysing the extended syntactic and textual environments in which the paradigm of the indicative forms is used.The study shows that the function of Classical Arabic tenses is determined by the interaction of their inherent grammatical meaning and the overall dialogic, narrative, or generic contexts in which they occur. It also demonstrates the particularizing effect of context, so that temporal and aspectual meanings are always more nuanced, delicate, and pragmatically motivated in actual discourse.
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Brill Wat nyeus verfraeyt dat herte ende verlicht den sin. Studien zum Schauspiel des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit: Festschrift für Carla Dauven-van Knippenberg zum 65. Geburtstag
Book SynopsisDer Band enthält 13 Studien zum Schauspiel des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Dabei werden einerseits theoretische Betrachtungen, etwa zum Unterschied zwischen Osterfeier und Osterspiel oder zur Bedeutung der Musik für die Spiele, vorgelegt. Andererseits wird auf spezifische Spiele eingegangen, wie etwa auf das Heidelberger Passionsspiel von 1514, das Lübener Osterspielfragment, das älteste schwedische Spiel 'De uno peccatore', das Theophilusspiel, das Berliner Weihnachtsspiel von 1589 und Sebastian Brants 'Tugent Spyl'. Aber auch die Rezeption der Komödien des Terenz, die Entwicklung des Fasnachtspiels, das Puppenspiel in den Bearbeitungen des Maugis d'Aigremont sowie der Inseldiskurs und dessen Einfluss etwa auf Shakespeares 'The Tempest' werden behandelt. Die Beiträge stammen von Bernd Bastert, Bart Besamusca, Cornelia Herberichs, Johannes Janota, Cobie Kuné, Tanja Mattern, Volker Mertens, Christian Moser, Arend Quak, Werner Röcke, Eckehard Simon, Clara Strijbosch und Elke Ukena-Best.Table of Contents1. Johannes Janota, Osterfeier oder Osterspiel? Zur Klärung der Terminologie 2. Volker Mertens, Klang und Sinn. Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zur Musik in geistlichen Spielen 3. Tanja Mattern, Vere vidi Dominum vivere. Die Christophanie der Maria Magdalena und die Osterfeiern des Typs III aus norddeutschen Frauenklöstern 4. Elke Ukena-Best, Typus und Antitypus. Methoden der Verknüpfung im Heidelberger (Mainzer) Passionsspiel 5. Cobie Kuné, Nu horit alle gemeyne beide gros vnde cleyne ... Zur Komik im Lübener Osterspielfragment 6. Arend Quak, De uno peccatore 7. Clara Strijbosch, Silete, silete, silentium habete. Über Musik im Trierer Theophilus-Spiel 8. Bernd Bastert, Wissenschaft und Fastnachtspiel – Die Komödien des Terenz zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit 9. Werner Röcke, Zwischen Rügebrauch und antik-moderner Komödie. Das Fastnachtspiel in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt 10. Bart Besamusca, Het poppenspel van Oriande in Malagis en de Hystorie van Malegijs 11. Cornelia Herberichs, Machtspiele. Zur doppelten Logik der theatralen Repräsentation im Berliner Weihnachtsspiel von 1589 sowie ein Exkurs zu dessen Rezeptionen im 19. Jahrhundert 12. Eckehard Simon, Brant’s ‘Tugent Spyl’ (1518): Notes on the Printing, Dating and Staging of the Two-Day Secular Morality 13. Christian Moser, Von der epischen zur dramatischen Insel: Die Insel als Chronotopos in literarischen Texten der Antike und der Renaissance Mitarbeiter an diesem Band
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Brill Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora
Book SynopsisHonoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal. Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Siân Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgård, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Mäkinen, Beatriz Mato-Míguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.Trade ReviewHonoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics. The volume’s major strength lies in the diversified topics presented in the chapters, which offer an impressive glance at the current research trends in corpus linguistics. Many chapters (especially those in Part I) include detailed descriptions of how their target corpora are compiled, parsed, and annotated, and these valuable pieces of information make the volume an ideal reference for researchers considering incorporating corpus-driven approaches into their own research. Another strength of the volume is its recognition of two important trends in World English: the exponential growth of advanced ESL learners and the proliferation of English varieties. The insightful discussions on both topics throughout the volume can be particularly illuminating for scholars working on language change and variation. - Sibo Chen - Simon Fraser University, on: Linguistlist.orgTable of ContentsList of figures List of tables Preface 1. From the fringe to the mainstream: English corpus linguistics moving ahead María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez Part I: Issues in corpus compilation 2. English urban vernaculars, 1400–1700: Digitizing text from manuscript Anita Auer, Moragh Gordon, and Mike Olson 3. Creating a corpus of student writing in economics: Structure and representativeness Martti Mäkinen and Turo Hiltunen 4. Ongoing changes and advanced L2 use of English: Evidence from new corpus resources Mikko Laitinen Part II: Investigating register variation through corpora 5. Verbs and verb phrases in advanced Dutch ELF writing: Case studies in qualitative and quantitative ELF analysis Pieter de Haan 6. Discourse-organizing metadiscourse in novice academic English Hilde Hasselgård 7. Passives in academic writing: Comparing research articles and student essays across four disciplines Turo Hiltunen 8. Adverbial hapax legomena in news text: Why do some coinages remain hapax? Antoinette Renouf Part III: Corpora and grammar: Examining grammatical variation in space 9. English in South Africa: The case of past-referring verb forms Johan Elsness 10. A look at participial constructions with get in Hong Kong English Eduardo Coto-Villalibre 11. Who is the/a/Ø professor at your university? A construction-grammar view on changing article use with single role predicates in American English Marianne Hundt 12. Clause fragments in English dialogue Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts Part IV: Corpus insights into the pragmatics of spoken English 13. The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between imperatives, conditionals and insubordinated if-clauses in spoken British English Beatriz Mato-Míguez 14. Taboo language and swearing in eighteenth and nineteenth century English: A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus Bianca Widlitzki and Magnus Huber 15. The 'humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures: An approach to pragmatic annotation Siân Alsop
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Brill Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher
Book SynopsisThis volume includes the reflections of leading researchers on Arabic and Semitic languages, also understood as systems and representations. The work first deals with Biblical Hebrew, Early Aramaic, Afroasiatic and Semitic. Its core focuses on morpho-syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, rhetoric and logic matters, showing Arabic grammar's place within the system of the sciences of language. In the second part, authors deal with lexical issues, before they explore dialectology. The last stop is a reflection on how Arabic linguistics may prevent the understanding of the Arabs' own grammatical theory and the teaching and learning of Arabic.
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Brill Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová
Book SynopsisThe publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Tabula gratulatoria Jana Součková-Siegelová (Gernot Wilhelm) Jana Součková-Siegelová and the Náprstek Museum Prague (Milena Secká) Bibliography of Jana Součková-Siegelová (Milena Secká, Šárka Velhartická) List of Abbreviations List of Authors Proverbs and rhetorical strategies in § 7’ of the Hittite Instructions for Priests and Temple Personnel (CTH 264), Silvia Alaura Luwian Monumental Inscriptions and Luwians in Northern Syria, Alfonso Archi The Old Woman: Female Wisdom as a Resource and a Threat in Hittite Anatolia, Gary Beckman A study in doors, Petr Charvát Das semantische Feld der hethitischen Verwaltungssprache, Paola Cotticelli-Kurras Išuwa and Ḫatti during the Early Hittite Empire (Tutḫaliya I – Šuppiluliuma I), Stefano de Martino Ivory Pyxis in the National Museum, Prague, Marie Dufková Zur Syntax des vedischen und hethitischen Vokativs im Vergleich, Heiner Eichner Überlegungen zur Textherstellung des Ḫedammu-Mythos, Detlev Groddek The story of Wāšitta and Kumarbi, Alwin Kloekhorst SIURI – SINURI, deux divinités à redécouvrir, René Lebrun MEŠ4 – ein Pluraldeterminativ im Hethitischen, Jürgen Lorenz / Elisabeth Rieken Die sogenannten „eingepunzten“ Hieroglypheninschriften von Boğazköy: Status quaestionis, Massimiliano Marazzi Marginalia to the Myth of Telipinu, H. Craig Melchert Activities and roles of court dignitaries towards the end of the Hittite Empire, Clelia Mora La fête dite de l’intronisation CTH 659, Alice Mouton Auf der Suche nach dem Schreiberprofil, Gerfrid G.W. Müller Etymologisches und Morphologisches zu einigen anatolischen Wörtern, Norbert Oettinger The Hieroglyphic Sign EGO(2), Annick Payne Zippalanda and the Cities of Central Anatolia: Economic and Religious Connections, Franca Pecchioli Daddi Nuovi sigilli in luvio geroglifico VIII, Massimo Poetto One more hapax crux in Hittite, Jaan Puhvel The Hattian-Hittite Foundation Rituals from Ortaköy (II). Fragments to CTH 726 “Rituel bilingue de fondation d’un temple ou d’un palais”, Oğuz Soysal / Aygül Süel On Anatolian Traditions of the Old Hittite Kingship, Piotr Taracha A Hittite View of Lullubum and its World, İlknur Taş / Selim F. Adalı Eine alternative Deutung des „Wildtierparks“ im Anitta-Text, Ahmet Ünal Cuneiform Texts in the Náprstek Museum Prague, Luděk Vacín A Brief Note on the Syntax of Writing in Hittite, Theo van den Hout Dokumentation zu Bedřich Hrozný in den Archiven des tschechischen Nationalmuseums, Šárka Velhartická Schreiber und Beschwörung im Hurritischen, Gernot Wilhelm A Luwian Welcome, Ilya Yakubovich Indices
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Brill Philology Matters!
Book SynopsisThis book is about philology and its relevance over time. The compilation foregrounds a multi-faceted field of research that has dealt with the relationship between language, literature and culture for over 2,000 years. The main thread of this volume, comprising ten scholarly essays, is to show that philology as an academic field and a scholarly perspective―understood in its widest sense as the profound understanding of language, literature and culture―does matter in the twenty-first century, that is to say, in our own time characterized by globalization and digitalization. The contributions reflect the many dimensions of philology and its plurality, interdisciplinarity and the humanities. The volume seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with philology. Here lies the true nature of philology, and this is why it still matters. Contributors are Massimiliano Bampi, Maja Bäckvall, Jonas Carlquist, Odd Einar Haugen, Helge Jordheim, Karl G. Johansson, Lino Leonardi, Harry Lönnroth, Outi Merisalo, Marita Akhøj Nielsen and Nestori Siponkoski.Trade Review'This collection is highly recommended for the richness of its contents and the great relevance of many of its topics." Paolo Trovato, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Why Philology Matters Harry Lönnroth 1 Philology and the Problem of Culture Helge Jordheim 2 Description and Reconstruction: An Alternative Categorization of Philological Approaches Maja Bäckvall 3 Intertextuality and the Oral Continuum: The Multidisciplinary Challenge to Philology Karl G. Johansson 4 Philological Virtues in a Virtual World Marita Akhøj Nielsen 5 Philology as Explanation for Historical Contexts Jonas Carlquist 6 Romance Philology between Anachronism and Historical Truth: On Editing Medieval Vernacular Texts Lino Leonardi 7 Levels of Granularity: Balancing Literary and Linguistic Interests in the Editing of Medieval Texts Odd Einar Haugen 8 The Philology of Translation Harry Lönnroth and Nestori Siponkoski 9 Translating and Rewriting in the Middle Ages: A Philological Approach Massimiliano Bampi 10 Ludwig Traube and Philology Outi Merisalo Bibliography Index
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Brill Etymological Dictionary of Latin: and the other Italic Languages
Book SynopsisLatin is one of the major ancient Indo-European languages and one of the cornerstones of Indo-European studies. Since the last comprehensive etymological dictionary of Latin appeared in 1959, enormous progress has been made in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and many etymologies have been revised. This new etymological dictionary covers the entire Latin lexicon of Indo-European origin. It consists of nearly 1900 entries, which altogether discuss about 8000 Latin lemmata. All words attested before Cicero are included, together with their first date of attestation in Latin. The dictionary also includes all the inherited words found in the other ancient Italic languages, such as Oscan, Umbrian and South Picene; thus, it also serves as an etymological dictionary of Italic.Trade Review"Specialists will learn much from this work." "This is an impressive, handsomely produced volume. It deserves to be in any serious linguistic library." Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, reviewed for the The Linguist List, 7 April 2009. "This new, important dictionary cannot be neglected by anyone interested in the history of words." Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, (Universiteit van Gent), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.11.27Table of ContentsPREFACE ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS A. Languages, texts and authors B. Reconstruction, grammar and text C. Symbols INTRODUCTION 1. Aim of this dictionary 2. Definition of Italic 3. Research method 4. From Proto-Indo-European to Latin 4.1 Reconstructable stages 4.2 The phonology of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Italic and Latin 5. The entries 5.1 Selection of entries 5.2 The entries 5.3 Dating 5.4 Derivatives 5.5 Proto-Italic 5.6 Italic cognates 5.7 Proto-Indo-European 5.8 Indo-European cognates 5.9 Etymology 5.10 Bibliography 6. Periodization of Latin DICTIONARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbreviations of literature Authors INDICES
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Brill The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny
Book SynopsisIn The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this hitherto poorly documented language of Lamjung, Nepal. The Dura language is effectively extinct, although attempts at revival may be undertaken by well-intentioned members of Dura ethnicity. On the basis of a comprehensive study and analysis of all of the extant Dura language material, the book outlines the phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, lexical and syntactic properties as well as the phylogenetic position of the language in unprecedented detail. The result of the phylogenetic inquiry will help explain some of the sociocultural realities associated with the Dura community in Nepal and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the linguistic landscape of the Himalayas.
£146.40
Brill Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond
Book SynopsisAccording to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all humankind. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond includes the manuscripts of 19 papers that were presented at the 1st International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages, organized by the Caucasus University Association (CUA), at Ardahan, Turkey, on 13 to 16 October 2014. The articles address issues such as the state of the field of documentation, conservation and revitalization of endangered languages with special reference to the endangered languages in the Caucasus region and beyond.Table of ContentsPreface Chapters: 1. Consequences of Russian Linguistic Hegemony in (Post-)Soviet Colonial Space - by Gregory S. Anderson. 2. The Contacts between the Ossetians and the Karachay-Balkars, According to V.I. Abaev and Marrian Ideology - by Johnny Cheung. 3. Why Caucasian languages? - By Bernard Comrie. 4. Internationak Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in the Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchack and Urum Experience - by İryna M. Dryga. 5. Cases-Non-cases: At the Margins of the Tsezic Case System - by Diana Forker. 6. Language Edangerment in the Balkans with Some Comparisons to the Caucasus - by Victor A. Friedman. 7. Instilling Pride by Raising a Language's Prestige - by George Hewitt 8. Unwritten Minority Languages of the Daghestan: Status and Conservation Issues - by Zaynab Alieva and Mazhid Khalikov 9. Report on the Fieldwork Studies of the Endagered Turkic Languages - by Yong-Sŏng Li 10. Empire, Lingua Franca, Vernacular: The Roots of Endangerment - by Nicholas Ostler 11. Endangered Turkic Languages from China - by Mehmet Ölmez 12. The Death of a Language: the Case of Ubykh - by A. Sumru Öszoy 13. Diversity in the Dukhan Reindeer Terminology - by Elisabetta Ragagnin 14. How Much Udi is Udi? - by Wolfgang Schulze 15. Language Contact in Anatolia: The Case of Sason Arabic - by Eser Erguvanli Taylan 16. Language and Emergent Literacy in Svaneti - by Kevin Tuite 17. The Internet as a Tool for Language Development and Maintenance? The Case of Megrelian - by Karina Vamling 18. Linguistic Topography and Language Survival - George van Driem 19. And So Flows History - by Alexander Vovin Index
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Brill Aorists and Perfects: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints on tense choice within narrative discourse in Peruvian Spanish. Henderson argues for a theory based on Langacker’s ‘sequential scanning’ in Chilean and Uruguayan Spanish. Delmas looks at ’Ua in Tahitian, a polysemic particle with a range of aspectual and modal meanings. Bourdin addresses the expression of anteriority with just in English. Yerastov examines the distribution of the transitive be Perfect in Canadian English. Fryd offers a panchronic study of have-less perfect constructions in English. Eide investigates counterfactual present perfects in Mainland Scandinavian dialects.Trade Review"This accomplishment deserves its place among the canon of works dedicated to this important topic." ~ Chad Howe, University of Georgia, in Cercles (January 2019).
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Brill The Languages of Diaspora and Return
Book SynopsisUntil quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.Table of ContentsPreface Section 1 Introduction - Diaspora and diasporas - Defining diaspora - The classical Jewish Diaspora - Diaspora attitudes - Living in Diaspora Section 2 - Non-Jewish diasporas - some dimensions of diaspora languages - Case 1 - The Chinese diaspora - a large diverse collection of communities - Case 2 - South Asian diasporas - Case 3 - A return from exile: the Navajo case - Case 4 - A homeless diaspora? Rom or Romani - Case 5 - The Armenian diasporas - an analogous case - Case 6 - Exiles from Arab lands: Syrian and Palestinian diasporas - Case 7 - Russian diaspora communities - old and new - Case 8 - Pasifika in Aotearoa - Dimensions of diaspora languages Section 3- Babylon - the first Jewish Diaspora - The Egyptian captivity - Captivity in Babylonia - The shift to Aramaic - Attitudes to Diaspora - The persistence of Hebrew Section 4 - The Diaspora in Greek cities - The growth of the Diaspora - Jews in Greek colonies Section 5 - Jews in the Arab world - Pre-Islamic Diaspora - Jews in Islam - The Jewish variety of Arabic - The Reconquista and Jewish Spanish Section 6 The European Diaspora - Jews in Europe - Language shift - What is a Jewish variety? - Yiddish origins Section 7 - The Shtetl: the mythic classic Jewish Diaspora - Jews in Slavic lands Section 8 - The Ottoman Sephardic Diaspora - Expelled Iberian Jews move East - The Ottoman welcome and its limits - Jews in the Ottoman Balkans - The development of the millet system Section 9 - The emancipated, secularizing, assimilating Diaspora of modern times - The effect of emancipation - France - Germany - Netherlands - Belgium - United Kingdom - United States - Poland - The Soviet Union - The Arab world - Algeria - Morocco - Tunisia - Egypt - Iraq - Syria - Lebanon - Iran - Turkey Section 10 - "Bring us back" - The problem of returning from diaspora - The challenge of Global English - Rediasporization in Israel Section 11- Diaspora and diasporas - A tertiary diaspora - a note on a new Israeli diaspora - The effects of diaspora on language repertoires - The future of diasporas References
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Brill The Semantics of Glory: A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Approach to Hebrew Word Meaning
Book SynopsisDespite its centrality in mainstream linguistics, cognitive semantics has only recently begun to establish a foothold in biblical studies, largely due to the challenges inherent in applying such a methodology to ancient languages. The Semantics of Glory addresses these challenges by offering a new, practical model for a cognitive semantic approach to Classical Hebrew, demonstrated through an exploration of the Hebrew semantic domain of glory. The concept of ‘glory’ is one of the most significant themes in the Hebrew Bible, lying at the heart of God’s self-disclosure in biblical revelation. This study provides the most comprehensive examination of the domain to date, mapping out its intricacies and providing a framework for its exegesis.Trade Review"I think Burton makes a contribution towards the better understanding of the concept glory in Classical Hebrew. She also provides some parameters to consider when trying to describe a semantic domain of the ancient language." ~ Dr Christo H J van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University, in Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages (JNSL), Vol. 44/1 (2018) "Burton has written an important linguistic study which I can heartily recommend to Hebrew scholars." -Pieter de Vries, Reformed Theological Seminary (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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Brill Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion
Book SynopsisEnglish: In Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא Peter Juhás addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations. German: In der vorliegenden Monographie untersucht Peter Juhás die Funktion der viel diskutierten biblisch-hebräischen Partikel -nā im Lichte der wichtigsten antiken Bibelübersetzungen.Trade ReviewJuhás has been admirably careful and thorough in executing the task he undertook. Anyone wishing to contribute to the na' debate in future could do well to use this book as a starting point. Apart from Juhás's examination of how the particle was rendered in other languages, his detailed tables of occurrences in various parts of the Hebrew Bible, and his coverage of the history of the debate, make the book an excellent basis for studying the issue. More generally, the book holds much interest for any scholar concerned with the problems of translating ancient languages. - Geoffrey Sampson (University of Essex), on: linguistlist.org (February 2018).Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Nersēs and the Dormition Theological Terminology Some Patristic Sources Conclusion Manuscripts of Nersēs’ Commentary on the Dormition The Dormition in Armenian Bibles Nersēs and His Biblical Commentaries Life of Nersēs from the 1736 Edition Memorial of the 1736 Edition Translation of Nersēs’ Commentary with Notes Note to the Armenian Text Nersēs’ Own Introduction Nersēs’ Commentary on the Dormition Variant Text of C in § 112 Nersēs’ Armenian Text of the Dormition Bibliography Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions General Index
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Brill Pragmatics, Truth and Underspecification: Towards an Atlas of Meaning
Book SynopsisThe concept of meaning, since Frege initiated the linguistic turn in 1884, has been the subject of numerous theories, hypotheses, methodologies and distinctions. One distinction of considerable strategic value relates to the location of meaning: some aspects of meaning can be found in language and are modelled with semantic values of various kinds; some aspects of meaning can be found in communicative processes and are modelled with pragmatic inferences of one sort or another. One hypothesis of great heuristic utility concerns the relationship that is assumed between the semantic and the pragmatic. This collection of especially commissioned papers examines current thinking on the plausible nature of the semantic, the possible character of the pragmatic and the mechanics of their intersection.Table of ContentsAn Underspecified Preface Ken Turner and Larry Horn Part 1 On the Landscape of Negation 1 An (Abridged) Atlas of Negation: Polar Landscape in an Era of Climate Change Larry Horn 2 Dispelling the Cloud of Unknowing: More on the Syntactic Nature of Neg Raising Chris Collins and Paul Postal 3 Presuppositions, Negation, and Existence Barbara Abbott 4 More Ado about nothing: On the Typology of Negative Indefinites Johan van der Auwera and Lauren van Alsenoy Part 2 On Sense-Generality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Landscape 5 Distinguishing Ambiguity from Underspecificity Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone and Ernie Lepore 6 Metaphor, Minimalism, and Semantic Generality: Seeing Things in Context Michiel Leezenberg 7 A Radically Pragmatic Account of Number Words and the Reversibility of Scales Jerrold Sadock 8 Utterances and Expressions in Semantics and Logic David Braun Part 3 On Grammar, Inference, and Truth 9 Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann 10 Illusory Inferences in a Question-Based Theory of Reasoning Philipp Koralus and Salvador Mascarenhas 11 A Commitment-Theoretic Account of Moore’s Paradox Jack Woods 12 Remarks on Davidson’s Polymorphous Concept of Truth and Its Role in a Theory of Meaning Ken Turner Index
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Brill Arabic in Context: Celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University
Book SynopsisThe writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic’s linguistic history is written.Trade Review"[...]this is an excellent collection of articles, which contains a wealth of information and shows a high level of scholarship. The book does exactly what it promises on the cover: to look at Arabic from an interdisciplinary point of view, combining methodology from the fields of historical linguistics, epigraphy, dialectology, and history. This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of the Arabic language." ~ Liesbeth Zacks, University of Amsterdam, in BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXXV N° 3-4, mei-augustus 2018, pp. 433-438
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Brill The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts
Book SynopsisTangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken by around 150 hilltribespeople in the far Eastern Himalaya. A member of the Tani subgroup of Trans-Himalayan, Tangam is mutually-unintelligible with other languages of this otherwise relatively homogeneous subgroup. This is demonstrated to be a consequence of Tangam's early-branching status within the Western Tani subgroup, subsequent contact with Eastern Tani languages, and historical relationship with speakers of Bodic languages. Based on three field trips to the Tangam-speaking area over two years, this work presents a brief but comprehensive cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tangam language, together with a trilingual lexicon in Tangam, English and Minyong, and a collection of fully-analysed texts. It will be of interest to linguists and anthropologists of the Himalayan region, as well as to historical linguists and language typologists.
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Brill ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma or 'The Story of the Skull’: With Parallel Versions, Translation and Linguistic Analysis of Three 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts from Egypt. Supplemented with Arabic Transliteration
Book SynopsisIn ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Kaᶜb al-ᵓAḥbār) about Jesus reviving the skull of a deceased king. The skull narrates his encounter with the Angel of Death, a painful purgatory and descension to hell. The manuscripts reveal a wide spectrum of interesting written and spoken Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic variety features in which Ørum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written (fuṣḥā) and spoken (ᶜāmmiyya) variety. The unique sociolinguistic situation of the Jewish Egyptian community makes this book an important contribution to those working on Judaeo-Arabic in general, but also for students or scholars interested in Egyptian Arabic historical dialectology and sociolinguistics.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Technical Notes and Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties 1.2 Middle Arabic 1.3 Standard Arabic and the Nahḍa 1.4 Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene 2 The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition 2.1 The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century 2.2 On the Story ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma 3 Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’ 3.1 Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts 3.2 Reading Guidelines 3.3 ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’ 4 Linguistic Analysis 4.1 Orthography and Phonology 4.2 Morphology 4.3 Syntax 4.4 Lexical Features 5 Summary and Concluding Remarks 5.1 Orthography and Phonology 5.2 Morphology 5.3 Syntax 5.4 Lexical Features Appendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions Appendix 2: Facsimile of ‘Ramle—Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25’ (GAM) References Index
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