Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Brill Handbook of Jewish Languages: Revised and Updated Edition
Book SynopsisThis Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This paperback edition has been updated to include dozens of additional bibliographic references.
£69.60
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
£65.36
Brill Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond: Festschrift presented to John B. Whitman
Book SynopsisThe Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these areas it deals with still ongoing debates about the important issues in historical and theoretical linguistics concerning these languages that are reflected in articles often representing opposing points of view. This book can serve as a good introduction to the current state-of-art and the most essential problems in the fields it covers.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Contributors John B. Whitman Bibliography Tabula Gratulatoria Documentation 1 The Digital Museum Project for the Documentation of Endangered Languages: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan Yukinori Takubo Historical Linguistics 2 Disentangling Japonic seaweed from Koreo-Japonic water Anton Antonov 3 On Feature Ranking in Japanese Onset Obstruents Bjarke Frellesvig 4 Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *e Marc H. Miyake 5 A mokkan Perspective on Some Issues in Japanese Historical Phonology Sven Osterkamp 6 A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies Thomas Pellard 7 The Role of Internal Reconstruction in Comparing the Accent Systems of Korean Dialects S. Robert Ramsey 8 How Many OJ Syllables are Reflected in EMJ yo? J. Marshall Unger 9 On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji Alexander Vovin Theoretical Linguistics 10 Against a VP Ellipsis Account of Russian Verb-Stranding Constructions John Frederick Bailyn 11 A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul 12 Japanese Experiential -te iru Mamori Sugita Hughes and William McClure 13 DP versus NP: A Cross-Linguistic Typology? Jaklin Kornfilt 14 The Old Japanese Accusative Revisited: Realizing All the Universal Options Shigeru Miyagawa 15 Japanese Wh-Phrases as Unvalued Operators Mamoru Saito Index
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Brill Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies
Book SynopsisProfessor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures and Tables 1 The Yibu (譯部) Chapter of the Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略) Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky 2 Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan Era Christopher P. Atwood 3 The Scent of a Woman: Allegorical Misogyny in a Sa skya pa Treatise on Salvation in Pre-Classical Mongolian Verse Brian Baumann 4 Some Aspects of the Language Usage of Darkhat and Oirat Female Shamans Ágnes Birtalan 5 Some Remarks on Page Fragments of a Mongol Book of Taoist Content from Qaraqota Otgon Borjigin 6 Pronouns and Other Terms of Address in Khalkha Mongolian Benjamin Brosig 7 Past Tenses, Diminutives and Expressive Palatalization: Typology and the Limits of Internal Reconstruction in Tungusic José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 8 From Tatar to Magyar: Notes on Central Eurasian Ethnonyms in -r Juha Janhunen 9 A Mongolian Text of Confession Olivér Kápolnás and Alice Sárközi 10 The Role of Ewenki VgV in Mongolic Reconstructions Bayarma Khabtagaeva 11 Contraction, anticipation et persévération en mongol xalx : quelques réflexions Jacques Legrand 12 The Dongxiang (Santa) Ending -ğuŋ and Its Allies Hans Nugteren 13 Sino-Mongolica in the Qırġız Epic Poem Kökötöy’s Memorial Feast by Saġımbay Orozbaq uulu Daniel Prior 14 Badəkšaan Elisabetta Ragagnin 15 Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Wörterbuch: Zwei Weisheiten und Drei Naturen im Uigurischen Buddhismus Von Klaus Röhrborn 16 Some Medical and Related Terms in Middle Mongɣol Volker Rybatzki 17 Reflexes of the *VgV and *VxV Groups in the Mongol Vocabulary of the Sino-Mongol Glossary Dada yu/Beilu yiyu (Late 16th–Early 17th Cent.) Pavel Rykin 18 Early Serbi-Mongolic—Tungusic Lexical Contact: Jurchen Numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China Andrew Shimunek 19 On the Phenomeno-Logic behind some Mongolian Verbs Ines Stolpe and Alimaa Senderjav 20 Spelling Variation in Cornelius Rahmn’s Kalmuck Manuscripts as Evidence for Sound Changes Jan-Olof Svantesson 21 Four Tungusic Etymologies Alexander Vovin 22 Zum Werktitel mongolischer Texte seit dem 17. Jahrhundert Michael Weiers 23 The Last-Words of Xiao Chala Xianggong in Khitan Script Wu Yingzhe 24 Proper Names in the Oirat Translation of “The Sutra of Golden Light” Natalia Yakhontova Tabula gratulatoria Index
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Brill Advances in Italian Dialectology: Sketches of Italo-Romance Grammars
Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of grammar sketches from several Italo-Romance varieties. The contributions cover various areas of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax) and are organized in sections according to the customary geolinguistic classification. Each chapter provides the description of a salient phenomenon for a given language, based on novel data, as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge on that phenomenon. The articles are in-depth studies carried out by prominent experts as well as promising young scholars. The theoretical apparatus is kept to a minimum in order to make the book accessible to scholars without specific expertise. For the same reason, hypotheses and formalisms are introduced gradually, only if necessary for the description of the data.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Tables Introduction Northern Varieties 1 The Distribution of Gender and Number in Lunigiana Nominal Expressions Edoardo Cavirani 2 On the Interpretation of an Interrogative Form in North-Eastern Italian Dialects Patrizia Cordin 3 Verb-Second and (Micro)Variation in Two Rhaeto-Romance Varieties of Northern Italy Jan Casalicchio and Federica Cognola Central Varieties 4 On the Palatalization of /s/ + Consonant in Some Dialects of Middle and Southern Italy Luca Lorenzetti 5 On the Gender System of Viterbese Michele Loporcaro 6 Indefinite Determiners. Variation and Optionality in Italo-Romance Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti Upper Southern Varieties 7 Italo-Romance Phonological Rules and Indo-Aryan Lexicon: The Case of Abruzzian Romani Andrea Scala 8 Avita fatta: Non-Etymological Forms of Auxiliary habere in Southern Italian Dialects Carlo Schirru 9 Adjectival Positions in Barese: Prenominal Exceptions to the Postnominal Rule Luigi Andriani Extreme Southern Varieties and Sardinian 10 Metaphony in Southern Salento: New Analysis and New Data Mirko Grimaldi and Andrea Calabrese 11 The ‘go for’ Construction in Sicilian Silvio Cruschina 12 The Complementizers ca and chi in Sardinian: Syntactic Properties and Geographic Distribution Caroline Bacciu and Guido Mensching Index
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Brill To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the languages, archaeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald
Book SynopsisMichael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.Table of ContentsThe Research of M.C.A. Macdonald Publications of M.C.A. Macdonald Tabula Gratulatoria Tables and Figures Contributors Epigraphy and Philology 1 Les artisans et professions « libérales » dans le domaine nabatéen Laila Nehmé 2 Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen Onomastikon Walter W. Müller 3 Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern Jordan Hani Hayajneh 4 Notes on ḥwb in Safaitic Chiara Della Puppa 5 Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom Ali Al-Manaser 6 The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation Alessandra Avanzini 7 Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathān (Governorate of al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen) Alessia Prioletta 8 Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken Südarabien Peter Stein 9 The Phonemes ẓ and ṭ in the Dadanitic Inscriptions Fokelien Kootstra 10 Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymāt (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ) María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 11 Un sanctuaire de montagne : Mushannaf Maurice Sartre 12 Un pasteur et un soldat ? Deux inscriptions grecques d’ époque romaine à l’ est du Jabal Ḥawrān François Villeneuve 13 Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanien Pierre-Louis Gatier 14 Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ? Jean-Baptiste Yon 15 A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman Sebastian Brock 16 Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period Robert Hoyland 17 The Etymology of Ḥattā Ahmad al-Jallad 18 Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ṯ and Vertical h the Same Sign? Marijn van Putten Archaeology, History and Religion 19 The Outer Wall of Taymāʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze Age Arnulf Hausleiter 20 Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum Marta Luciani 21 A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai Ina Kehrberg(-Ostrasz) 22 The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in Maʾrib Mohammed Maraqten 23 Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Ḏarīḥ nach Ṣirwāḥ Norbert Nebes 24 Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BC Israel Ephʿal 25 Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity Greg Fisher 26 A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian history Orhan Elmaz 27 Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Sūrat at-Takāṯur (Q102)? Konstantin M. Klein 28 Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)” John F. Healey 29 ‘The Conception of Jesus’ Hannah M. Cotton Paltiel Modern Dialects and Tribes 30 Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman Miranda J. Morris and Sālim ʕAwaḏ̣̣ Ahmad al-Shaḥri 31 South Arabian Sibilants and the Śḥerɛ̄t s̃ ~ š Contrast Alex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson 32 Was There a “Bedouinisation of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has so Far been Portrayed William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster Index
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Brill Omani Mehri: A New Grammar with Texts
Book SynopsisThis book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, presented with extensive commentary, were collected by the late T.M. Johnstone. Some are published here for the first time, while the rest have been newly edited and translated, based on the original manuscripts. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of southern Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume, which is the most detailed grammatical study of a Modern South Arabian language yet published.Trade Review"To conclude, this book is undoubtedly a very important work for MSAL and Semitic studies as a whole." - Fabio Gasparini, Orientalische Literaturzeitung, Vol. 114, Iss. 6, 2019, pp. 463-466Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Texts Abbreviations and Symbols Text Citation A Note on Transcription and Translation Grammar 1 Introduction 1.1 Previous Scholarship on Mehri and MSA 1.2 Dialects of Mehri 1.3 The Position of Mehri within MSA 1.4 The Position of MSA in Semitic 1.5 Johnstone’s Mehri Texts 1.6 Johnstone’s Audio Material 1.7 This Grammar 2 Phonology 2.1 Mehri Consonants 2.2 Mehri Vowels 2.3 Word Stress 3 Pronouns 3.1 Independent Personal Pronouns 3.2 Suffixed Pronouns 3.3 Direct Object Pronouns (t-) 3.4 Demonstratives 3.5 Indefinite Pronouns 3.6 Reflexives 3.7 Reciprocals 3.8 Relative Pronouns 4 Nouns 4.1 Gender 4.2 Duals 4.3 Plurals 4.4 Definite Article 4.5 Diminutives 4.6 Construct State 5 Adjectives 5.1 Agreement 5.2 Declension 5.3 Substantivization 5.4 Comparatives 5.5 Quantifiers 6 Verbs: Stems 6.1 G-Stem 6.2 D/L-Stem 6.3 H-Stem 6.4 Š-Stems 6.5 T-Stems 6.6 Quadriliterals 6.7 Quinqueliterals (Qw- and Qy-Stems) 7 Verbs: Tenses and Forms 7.1 Verbal Tenses and Moods 7.2 Weak Verbs 7.3 The Irregular Verb ḥōm ‘want’ 8 Prepositions 8.1 ar ‘except, but’ 8.2 b- ‘in, at; with; for; on’ 8.3 bād ‘after’ 8.4 bǝrk ‘in(to), inside; among’ 8.5 ð̣ār ‘on; about’, mǝn ð̣ār ‘after’ 8.6 fǝnōhǝn ‘before; in front of; ago’ 8.7 ġayr ‘except’, mǝn ġayr ‘without’ 8.8 h- ‘to; for’ 8.9 hāl ‘at, by, beside’ 8.10 (ǝl-)hīs ‘like, as’ 8.11 k- (š-) ‘with’ 8.12 l- ‘to; for’ 8.13 mǝn ‘from’ 8.14 mǝn ḳǝdē ‘about, regarding’ 8.15 ǝm-mǝ́n ‘between’ 8.16 nǝxāli ‘under’ 8.17 sǝbēb ‘because of’ 8.18 sār ‘behind’ 8.19 tɛ ‘until, up to’ 8.20 tǝwōli ‘to, towards’ 8.21 xā ‘like, as … as’ 8.22 Additional Prepositions 8.23 The Suffixed Forms of Prepositions 9 Numerals 9.1 Cardinals 9.2 Special Forms Used With ‘Days’ 9.3 Ordinals 9.4 Fractions 9.5 Days of the Week 10 Adverbs 10.1 Demonstrative Adverbs 10.2 Adverbs of Place 10.3 Adverbs of Time 10.4 Adverbs of Manner 10.5 Adverbs of Degree 11 Interrogatives 11.1 mōn ‘who?’ 11.2 hɛ̄śǝn ‘what? why?’ 11.3 hɛ̄śǝn mǝn ‘which? what kind of?’ 11.4 ḥõ ‘where?’ 11.5 wǝ-kōh (kō) ‘why?’ 11.6 hībōh ‘how? what?’ 11.7 mayt ‘when?’ 11.8 kǝm ‘how many? how much?’ 11.9 ǝl hɛ̃ lā ‘isn’t that so?’ 12 Particles 12.1 Coordinating Conjunctions 12.2 Exclamations 12.3 Vocatives 12.4 Genitive Exponent ð- (‘of’) 12.5 Miscellaneous Particles 13 Some Syntactic Features 13.1 Copular (Non-Verbal) Sentences 13.2 Negation 13.3 Expressing ‘have’ 13.4 Conditionals 13.5 Subordination 13.6 Interrogative Clauses Texts 14 Johnstone’s Texts from Ali Musallam Appendix A: Texts 54 and 65 with Morpheme Glossing Appendix B: Texts 54 and 65 in Arabic Script Appendix C: Supplement to Johnstone’s Mehri Lexicon Appendix D: Additions and Corrections to The Jibbali Language of Oman: Grammar and Texts Bibliography Index of Passages Index of Select Mehri Words
£180.00
Brill Language and Meter
Book SynopsisIn Language and Meter, Dieter Gunkel and Olav Hackstein unite fifteen linguistic studies on a variety of poetic traditions, including the Homeric epics, the hieratic hymns of the Ṛgveda, the Gathas of the Avesta, early Latin and the Sabellic compositions, Germanic alliterative verse, Insular Celtic court poetry, and Tocharian metrical texts. The studies treat a broad range of topics, including the prehistory of the hexameter, the nature of Homeric formulae, the structure of Vedic verse, rhythm in the Gathas, and the relationship between Germanic and Celtic poetic traditions. The volume contributes to our understanding of the relationship between language and poetic form, and how they change over time.
£116.80
Brill Strategies of Adaptation in Tourist Communication: Linguistic Insights
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume study the relationship between language use and the concept of the “tourist gaze” through a range of communicative practices from different cultures and languages. From a pragmatic perspective, the authors investigate how language constantly adapts to contextual constraints which affect tourism discourse as a strategic meaning-making process that turns insignificant places into desirable tourist destinations. The case studies draw on both, in situ interactions with visitors, such as guided tours and counter information, old and new mediatized genres, i.e. guide books, travelogues, print advertising as well as TV-commercials, service web-sites and apps. Despite the diversity of data, one of the common findings in the volume is that staging the sensory ‘lived’ tourist experience is the lynchpin of all communicative practices. Hence, the use of tourism language reveals itself as the mirror of how ‘people on the move’ continuously enact as ‘tourists’ and ‘places’ are constructed as must-see ‘sights’.
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Brill Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach
Book SynopsisThis study is devoted to a corpus of Old Russian letters, written on pieces of birchbark. These unique texts from Novgorod and surroundings give us an exceptional impression of everyday life in medieval Russian society. In this study, the birchbark letters are addressed from a pragmatic angle. Linguistic parameters are identified that shed light on the degree to which literacy had gained ground in communicative processes. It is demonstrated that the birchbark letters occupy an intermediate position between orality and literacy. On the one hand, oral habits of communication persisted, as reflected in how the birchbark letters are phrased; on the other hand, literate modes of expression emerged, as seen in the development of normative conventions and literate formulae.Trade Review"Dekkerʼs book is a very welcome contribution to the field of historical pragmatics and an important step towards a comprehensive account of the pragmatics of the Old Russian birchbark letters." -Imke Mendoza, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Index of Birchbark Letters 1 The Field of Study: Berestology 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Excavations 1.3 Dating and Chronology 1.4 Users and Uses of the Birchbark Letters 1.5 The Language: Old Novgorodian 1.6 Other Sources: Parchment Documents 1.7 Concluding Remarks 2 The Background: Communicatively Heterogeneous Letters 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Problem 2.3 Communicative Heterogeneity 2.4 The Oral Component 2.5 Evaluating Gippius (2004) 2.6 Subsequent Research 2.7 Discussion 3 Research Question 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Research Question 3.3 The Choice of Case Studies 3.4 Concluding Remarks 4 Theory and Methodology 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Philology 4.3 Pragmatics 4.4 Pragmaphilology 4.5 Orality 4.6 Use of the Corpus 4.7 Illustration of the Pragmaphilological Approach: One Case Study 5 Case Study I: Imperative Subjects 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Imperative Subjects 5.3 The Imperative Subject as a Cohesive Device 5.4 The Oral Component 5.5 Concluding Remarks 6 Case Study II: Speech Reporting 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Speech Reporting Strategies 6.3 Some Terminological Considerations 6.4 The Data on Birchbark 6.5 Diachronic Considerations 6.6 Speech Reporting Strategies on a Scale 6.7 Complexity and Context 6.8 Functional Considerations 6.9 Free Direct Speech Revisited 6.10 More Elements of Orality: Dictation and Performatives Type 6.11 Concluding Remarks 7 Case Study III: Epistolary Past Tense 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Birchbark Data and Discussion 7.3 Epistolary Past Tense in Other Languages 7.4 The Data on Birchbark Revisited 7.5 Deixis 7.6 Performatives 7.7 Ancient Greek Revisited 7.8 Concluding Remarks 8 Case Study IV: Assertive Declarations 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Theoretical Considerations 8.3 The Data on Birchbark 8.4 Other Languages 8.5 Discussion 8.6 Concluding Remarks 9 Conclusions 9.1 Introduction 9.2 General Lines Connecting the Case Studies 9.3 A Transitional Period of Verschriftlichung 9.4 Final Remarks References Index
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Brill Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Book SynopsisIn Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework.
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Brill Languaging Without Languages: Beyond metro-, multi-, poly-, pluri- and translanguaging
Book SynopsisDrawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological attachment to reified grammatical systems. Idiolects are redefined as continually emergent collections of context specific, probabilistic memories entrenched as a result of domain-general cognitive processes that create and consolidate linguistic experience. Also continually emergent, conventionalization and vernacularization operate across individuals producing the illusion of shared grammatical systems. Conventionalization results from the emergence of parallel expectations for the use of linguistic elements organized into syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. In parallel, vernacularization indexes linguistic forms to sociocultural identities and stances. Evidence implying entrenchment and conventionalization is provided in asymmetrical frequency distributions.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Languages Ideology 0 Ideology 1 Discourse, Ideographs, and the Languages Ideology 2 Ongoing Signs of Discontent 3 A Plausible Alternative 1 The Staying Power of an Illusion 1.0 Introduction 1.1 A History of the Languages Ideology 1.2 The Persistent Power of False Assumptions 1.3 Dissenting Voices 1.4 Languaging, Not Languages 1.5 Summary 2 Entrenchment and the Linguistic Individual 2.0 Introduction 2.1 The Languaging Individual 2.2 Usage-based Theory and Emergent Systems 2.3 Summary 3 Conventionalization and the Illusion of Shared Grammar 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Similarities between Entrenchment and Conventionalization 3.2 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Lexical Items 3.3 Conventionalization as a Complex Emergent System: Open Slots in Constructions 3.4 The Role of Conventionalization in Linguistic Change 3.5 Summary 4 Vernacularization 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Indexes, and Indexing 4.2 Intersections: Vernacularization, Conventionalization, and the Languages Ideology 4.3 Summary 5 Conclusion 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Repeated Calls to Action, Repeated Ideological Reenactment 5.2 Liberating Insights Entrapped by the Languages Ideology 5.3 Changing the Discourse Appendix I Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
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Brill Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers: New Issues in the Study of Language Change
Book SynopsisBeyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even challenge current ideas on grammaticalization. All contributions, written by leading experts in the fields of grammaticalization and discourse markers, explore issues such as: the impact of Construction Grammar into language change; cyclicity as a driving force of change; the importance of positions and discourse units as predictors of grammaticalization; a renewed way of thinking about philological considerations, or the role of Experimental Pragmatics for hypothesis checking.Trade Review"To conclude, the volume constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on DMs and grammaticalization, discussing some theoretical aspects of both, but most of all providing a range of semantic reconstructions and insights into the sociolinguistic dynamics of grammatical change." - Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, in: Journal of Pragmatics 148 (2019), pp. 125-127Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables 1 Introduction Salvador Pons Bordería 2 Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks Elizabeth Closs Traugott 3 Cyclic Phenomena in the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers. Examples from Romance Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 4 The Historical Path of eso sí as a Contrastive Connective Ana Llopis Cardona 5 Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and Discourse Traditions: The Case of Portuguese caso David Gerards and Johannes Kabatek 6 Paragdimaticalization through Formal Ressemblance: A History of the Reinforcer bien in Spanish Discourse Markers Álvaro Octavio de Toledo 7 New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante Mar Garachana 8 The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of Italian allora and Spanish entonces Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga 9 Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora Piera Molinelli 10 Insubordination, Abtoenung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French Ulrich Detges and Paul Gévaudan 11 Paths of Grammaticalization: Beyond the LP/RP Debate Salvador Pons Bordería 12 On Argumentative Relations in Spanish: Experimental Evidence on the Grammaticalization of Cause-Consequence Discourse Markers Inés Recio (), Laura Nadal and Óscar Loureda Index
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Brill A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary by N.V. Sljunin: Annotated Edition and Introduction
Book SynopsisIn “A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary” by N.V. Sljunin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente offers the philological edition of a very early twentieth-century source of two indigenous languages from Siberia. This edition includes the facsimile of the original handwritten document. Whereas specialists have known about the existence of Sljunin’s Yakut data by indirect references to it in at least one standard dictionary, there was no available information regarding Sljunin’s Ewenki data. Furthermore, careful linguistic analysis reveals that the Ewenki variety reflected in Sljunin’s dictionary may have already dissapeared.
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Brill A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017: With an Introduction by Menán du Plessis
Book SynopsisThis concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on South African language studies over the past 10 years. The introduction written by Menán du Plessis (Stellenbosch University) discusses the most recent developments in the field. The Linguistic Bibliography is compiled under the editorial management of Eline van der Veken, René Genis and Anne Aarssen in Leiden, The Netherlands. Linguistic Bibliography Online is the most comprehensive bibliography for scholarship on languages and theoretical linguistics available. Updated monthly with a total of more than 20,000 records annually, it enables users to trace recent publications and provides overviews of older material. For more information on Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online, please visit brill.com/lbo and linguisticbibliography.com. The e-book version of this bibliography is available in Open Access.Table of ContentsIntroduction Structure of references Periodicals Abbreviationsli Become a contributor to the Linguistic Bibliographylii General works 3. Conferences, workshops, meetings 4. Festschriften and miscellanies 4.1. Festschriften General linguistics and related disciplines 0.2. History of linguistics, biographical data, organizations 0.2.1. Western traditions 0.2.1.6. Nineteenth century 0.2.1.7. Twentieth century 0.2.1.8. Twenty-first century 0.2.3. Biographical data 0.3. Linguistic theory and methodology 0.6. Applied linguistics 1. Phonetics and phonology 1.1. Phonetics 1.1.1. Articulatory phonetics 1.1.3. Auditory phonetics 1.2. Phonology 1.2.1. Suprasegmental phonology (prosody) 2. Grammar, morphosyntax 2.2. Syntax 3. Lexicon (lexicology and lexicography) 3.2. Lexicography 3.2.2. Plurilingual lexicography 3.5. Phraseology, paroemiology 4. Semantics and pragmatics 4.2. Pragmatics, discourse analysis and text grammar 9. Psycholinguistics, language acquisition and neurolinguistics 9.3. Language acquisition 9.3.1. First language acquisition, child language 9.3.1.1. First language acquisition by pre-school children 9.4. Neurolinguistics and language disorders 9.4.2. Language disorders 9.4.2.1. Disorders of language development 10. Sociolinguistics and dialectology 10.1. Sociolinguistics 10.1.1. Language attitudes and social identity 10.1.2. Language policy and language planning 10.2. Multilingualism, language contact 10.2.1. Multilingualism 10.2.3. Language contact 11. Comparative linguistics 11.1. Historical linguistics and language change 13. Onomastics 13.2. Toponymy 13.3. Name studies other than anthroponymy and toponymy Indo-European languages 3. Indo-Iranian 3.1. Indo-Aryan (Indic) 3.1.3. Modern Indo-Aryan 3.1.3.5. Southern Indo-Aryan (Marathi) 9. Greek 9.3. Modern Greek 11. Romance 11.3. Gallo-Romance 11.3.2. French 11.3.2.3. Modern French 14. Germanic 14.3. West Germanic 14.3.1. German 14.3.1.1. High German 14.3.1.1.4. New High German 14.3.2. Dutch 14.3.2.3. Modern Dutch 14.3.3. Afrikaans 14.3.5. English 14.3.5.4. Modern English Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia 1. Sino-Tibetan 1.2. Sinitic (Chinese) 1.2.2. Modern Chinese Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa 1. Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) 1.7. Benue-Congo 1.7.1. Bantu 3. Khoisan Pidgins and Creoles 1. Romance lexifier pidgins and creoles 2. English lexifier pidgins and creoles 3. Pidgins and creoles with lexifiers other than Romance and English Sign languages 2. Individual sign languages (except ASL) Index of names Index of languages Index of subjects
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Brill Saussure and Sechehaye: Myth and Genius: A Study in the History of Linguistics and the Foundations of Language
Book SynopsisIn this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language.Table of Contents Preface List of Figures 1Introduction 2Who was Ferdinand de Saussure? 2.1 Family History and Life 2.2 TheCours de linguistique générale and Its Mythical Status 2.3 Saussure’s Problem with His Intellectual Environment 2.4 Saussure’s Limited Intellectual Outlook and His Implicit Rationalism 2.5 The Saussurean Myth 2.5.1 The Coming about of the Saussurean Myth 2.5.2 Saussure the ‘father’ of European Structuralism? 2.5.3 Saussure in literature, art and philosophy 3TheCours: A Critical Look 3.1 Language as a Social Phenomenon 3.1.1 The Social Dimension of Language 3.1.2 Early French Sociology 3.1.3 ‘Völkerpsychology’ 3.2 Linguistics as the Science of Language, Not of Speech 3.2.1 The Tasks of Linguistics 3.2.2 The Distinction between ‘langue’ and ‘parole’ 3.2.3 ‘Frequency linguistics’ Untenable 3.2.4 Who Introduced the Distinction between ‘langue’ and ‘parole’? 3.2.5 The Speech Circuit 3.3 The Notion of Syntax and the Notion of Sentence 3.3.1 The Notion of Syntax 3.3.2 The Notion of Sentence 3.4 The Notion of Sign and Its History 3.4.1 Saussure’s Notion of Sign 3.4.2 The Type-token Distinction 3.4.3 Some History of the Notion of Sign 3.4.4 The Arbitrariness of the Linguistic Sign 3.4.5 The Linearity of the Signifier 3.5 Differences, Oppositions and ‘valeurs’ 3.5.1 Comparison with Chess 3.5.2 Only Differences in the Language System? 3.6 Synchrony versus Diachrony 3.7 Conclusion 4Charles-Albert Sechehaye 4.1 Private Life 4.2 Scholarly Life: Preliminaries 4.2.1 Production and Reception 4.2.2 Weaknesses and Prejudices 4.2.3 Sechehaye and Saussure: A Paradoxical Relation 4.2.4 Sechehaye and Bally: At Cross Purposes 4.2.5 Why was Sechehaye Forgotten, or, Rather, Ignored? 4.3 Programme et méthodes of 1908 4.3.1 Overall Survey ofpmlt 4.3.2 Comments on Successive Chapters 4.4 TheEssai sur la structure logique de la phrase of 1926 4.4.1 Overall Survey ofslp 4.4.2 Comments on Successive Chapters 5Sechehaye and the Great Subject-predicate Debate 5.1 The Subject-predicate Debate: How it Arose and Ended up in a Quagmire 5.2 How Did Sechehaye Deal with the Subject-predicate Debate? 5.3 Why Discourse-driven and Fact-driven Propositions? 5.4 Intermezzo on the Structure of Propositions 5.5 An Analytical Synthesis of the Whole Question 5.5.1 Definition of the Notion ‘proposition’ 5.5.2 Anchoring and Keying 5.5.3 The Question-answer Game: Underlying Cleft Constructions 5.5.4 Formal Aspects oftcm: The Need for ‘parameter theory’ in Grammar 5.5.5 The Collapse of Quine’s Argument of the Opacity of Modal Contexts 6Structuralism, Rationalism and Romanticism in Psychology and Linguistics 6.1 What is Structuralism? 6.2 Rationalism versus Romanticism: Clarifying the Terms 6.3 Human versus Natural Sciences 6.4 Reductionism 6.5 The Coming about of the Human Sciences 6.6 Early Structuralism in Psychology: The Theory of ‘gestalts’ 6.7 Early Structuralism in Linguistics 6.7.1 The Young Grammarians 6.7.2 Who Were, and are, the Real Structuralists in Linguistics? 6.7.3 Romanticist or Nonstructuralist Grammar? 6.8 Summary 7Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Brill Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba
Book SynopsisBeṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Beṭṭa Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.Trade Review"The texts in ATBK are only a part of those that Coelho has collected over the past quarter century. Dravidian scholars will applaud her admirable achievement and look forward to the future publication of additional texts and grammatical analysis of this fascinating, understudied language. ATBK is the foundational study on which all subsequent study of BK will stand." -Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Symbols and Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 General Overview 1.2 Overview of the Language 1.3 Grammatical Information 1.4 The Physical and Social Context 1.5 The Texts in This Book Part 1 Folktales 2 Prelude to the Folktales 2.1 General Overview 2.2 The Storytellers 2.3 The Folktales in English Translation 3 The Turban Maker 4 The Fish Prince 5 The Offended Daughter 6 The Prince Who Subdivided Himself Part 2 Dialogues 7 Prelude to the Dialogues 7.1 General Overview 7.2 Cultural Background 7.3 The Dialogues in English Translation 8 Aspects of Community Life 8.1 Catching Fish 8.2 Cooking Fish 8.3 Gathering Forest Honey 8.4 Building Houses 8.5 The Head of the Clan 8.6 The binji: a Spirit Invocation Ritual 8.7 Working with Elephants 8.8 An Encounter with a Wild Bear 8.9 Traditional Healing 9 Legends about Deities 10 Legends about Ancestors Glossary References Index
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Brill Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts
Book SynopsisIn Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts Sadaf Munshi offers the structural description of a lesser-known regional variety of Burushaski spoken in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-administered state of Jammu & Kashmir. The description includes a comprehensive and comparative account of the structural features of Srinagar Burushaski in terms of phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax. The grammar is supported by an extensive digital corpus housed at the University of North Texas Digital Library. Using contemporary spoken language samples from Srinagar, Nagar, Hunza and Yasin varieties of Burushaski as well as data from the available literature, Munshi provides a thorough understanding of the historical development of Srinagar Burushaski, complementing the existing studies on Burushaski dialectology.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Maps Representation of Sounds Symbols and Abbreviations Maps 1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Emergence of Srinagar Burushaski 1.3 Database and Methodology 1.4 Transcription Key 1.5 Organization of the Book 2 Phonology 2.1 Phonemic Inventory 2.2 Syllable Structure 2.3 Basic Stress Pattern 2.4 Phonological Processes 2.5 Conclusion 3 Morpho-Syntax 3.1 Constituent Order Typology 3.2 Grammatical Relations, Case, and Agreement 3.3 Question Formation 3.4 Clause Combination 3.5 Non-Finite Clausal Constructions 4 Nominals and Nominal Inflection 4.1 Nouns and Noun Classes 4.2 Number 4.3 Case 4.4 Personal Pronouns 4.5 Possessability of Nouns 4.6 Modifiers 5 Verb Morphology 5.1 Morphology of the Verb Component 5.2 Morphology of the Verb ‘Be’ 5.3 D-Prefix Verbs 5.4 Causative Verbs 5.5 Negation 5.6 Imperatives and Prohibitives 5.7 Participial Forms 5.8 Optatives 5.9 Presumptive, Potential, and Dubitative Moods 6 Derivational Morphology 6.1 Suffixation 6.2 Compounding 6.3 Reduplication 7 Dialectal Comparison 7.1 Phonological Differences 7.2 Lexical Differences 7.3 Morpho-Syntactic Differences Appendix: Sample Texts References Index
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Brill Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
Book SynopsisIn the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This comparative study reveals the universal principles at work in the borrowing of logographic scripts. By analyzing and explaining these principles, Handel advances our understanding of how early writing systems have functioned and spread, providing a new framework that can be applied to the history of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform.Trade Review"All in all, for students and researchers working on topics related to premodern and early modern “Sinographic East Asia” or the “Sinographic cosmopolis,” Handel’s book is a must-read as it sheds new light on how, over nearly two millennia until the early twentieth century, modern-day East Asia was a tight-knit if virtual intellectual community thanks to the instrumental role played by the shared use of logographic Sinography. Readers with an interest in written Cantonese, a regional lingua franca in the Greater Bay Area in southern China, will also find it a valuable resource as it is often invoked in different parts of the book for comparison and contrast. Finally, for others working on languagecum-culture contact and change, Handel demonstrates convincingly that the theoretical model of script borrowing extrapolated from deep analysis of the historical spread of Sinography has good potential for being fruitfully applied to other contexts of areal contact and script borrowing, ancient or modern." - David C. S. Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China and Asia 2 (2020). " This is an important and wide-ranging book. Its central theme is that in countries around the periphery of China, the way in which the Chinese script was adopted to write languages other than Chinese was profoundly influenced by the typology of the language in each area. This is a macro-thesis, a high-level theory, and the author is the first scholar to take up this idea and explore its ramifications seriously and across virtually the whole geographic region. This has clearly been a mammoth undertaking, and the author is to be commended for his bravery as well as his devotion and determination to carry this pioneering project through to completion." - David Holm, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Manusya 23 (2020). "This is without doubt a profoundly important book, one that applies linguistic rigor of a high order to fundamental problems of the transmission of languages and scripts. What is more, it provides an indispensable and rock-solid basis for further work and as such is an ideal volume to launch the “Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis” series." -Peter Kornicki, Robinson College, Cambridge, JAOS, 141.2 (2021).
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Brill Reconstructing Syntax
Book SynopsisDuring several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.Trade Review"With its clear introductory state-of-the-art essay and its eight highly empirical studies, showing wide-ranging language coverage across several families, Reconstructing Syntax tackles two key issues in historical syntax, namely how one can identify cognates in syntax and whether there is determinable directionality in syntactic change. The volume succeeds mightily, offering enlightening and important answers to these - and other - questions, thus contributing in significant ways to on-going discussions in the field." ~ Brian D. Joseph, Distinguished University Professor, The Ohio State University "This is an extremely timely volume, taking on what has long been a thorny issue: the possibility of rigorous syntactic reconstruction. It provides a welcome survey of the history of discussion of potential methodological pitfalls unique to such endeavors, dating back more than a century. It then presents sets of innovative strategies, made possible by new approaches to syntax, along with assessments of their relative utilities. The contributions cover fundamental syntactic constructions spanning a rich variety of languages, some with extensive written records (Indo-European) others with only modern documentation (Austronesian, Chibchan)." ~ Marianne Mithun, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Brill Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive description of Tutrugbu(Nyangbo-nyb), a Ghana Togo Mountain(gtm) language of the Kwa family. It is based on a documentary corpus of different genre of linguistic and cultural practices gathered during periods of immersion fieldwork. Tutrugbu speakers are almost all bilingual in Ewe, another Kwa language. The book presents innovative analyses of phenomena like Advanced Tongue Root and labial vowel harmony, noun classes, topological relational verbs, the two classes of adpositions, obligatory complement verbs, multi-verbs in a single clause, and information structure. This grammar is unparalleled in including a characterization of culturally defined activity types and their associated speech formulae and routine strategies. It should appeal to linguists interested in African languages, language documentation and typology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 1.0 The People 1.1 Classification 1.2 History 1.3 The Multilingual Nyangbo Community 1.4 The Roadmap for This Grammar 2 Phonology 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Segmental Inventory 2.2 Syllable Structure 2.3 Phonological Processes 2.4 Tone 2.5 Conclusion 3 Morphology 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Reduplication 3.2 Inflection 3.3 Noun Classes 3.4 Derivation 3.5 Compounding 4 The Noun Phrase 4.0 Introduction 4.1 The Simple Noun Phrase 4.2 Complex Noun Phrase 5 The Verb Phrase 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Lexical Aspect 5.2 Tense Aspect Mood 5.3 Argument Structure 6 Adpositional Phrases and Locative Constructions 6.0 Introduction 6.1 The Basic Locative Construction (BLC) 6.2 The Verbs 6.3 Postpositions 6.4 Prepositions 7 Constructions 7.0 Introduction 7.1 Copula Construction 7.2 Descriptive Constructions 7.3 Serial Verb Constructions (SVC) 7.4 Coordinate Clausal Constructions 7.5 Subordinate Clauses 8 Sentence Types 8.0 Introduction 8.1 Declaratives 8.2 Interrogatives 8.3 Imperatives 9 Information Structure 9.0 Introduction 9.1 Topic 9.2 Focus 9.3 Contrastive Topic 9.4 Cleft Construction 9.5 Conclusion 10 Routine Activities 10.0 Introduction 10.1 Greetings 10.2 Spinning Yarn 10.3 Female Initiation Rite 10.4 Funeral Rites References
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Brill Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire
Book SynopsisThe Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of status for multilingual competence, on local governments, schools, the army and the urban public sphere, and on linguistic policies and practices in transition, this collective volume provides further evidence for both the merits of how language diversity was managed in Austria-Hungary and the problems and contradictions that surrounded those practices. The book includes contributions by Pieter M. Judson, Marta Verginella, Rok Stergar, Anamarija Lukić, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Ágoston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó, Matthäus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, and Tamara Scheer 2 Encounters with Language Diversity in Late Habsburg Austria Pieter M. Judson 3 The Fight for the National Linguistic Primacy: Testimonies from the Austrian Littoral Marta Verginella 4 The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: the Case of Ljubljana-Laibach Rok Stergar 5 Language Transition in the Town of Osijek at the End of Austro-Hungarian Rule (1902–1913) Anamarija Lukić 6 The Bosnische Post: a Newspaper in Sarajevo, 1884–1903 Carl Bethke 7 K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language Question Irina Marin 8 German and Romanian in Town Governments of Dualist Transylvania and the Banat Ágoston Berecz 9 The People of the “Five Hundred Villages”: Hungarians, Rusyns, Jews, and Roma in the Transcarpathian Region in Austria–Hungary Csilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó 10 Education in Habsburg Borderlands: the K.u.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in the Austrian Silesian Town of Teschen (1900–1921) Matthäus Wehowski 11 Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life: the Case of Late Habsburg Lviv Jan Fellerer 12 How Jesus Became a Woman, Climbed the Mountain, and Started to Roar: Habsburg Bukovina’s Celebrated Multilingualism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Jeroen van Drunen Index
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Brill Investigating the Learning of Pragmatics across Ages and Contexts
Book SynopsisThe present volume, edited by Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victòria Codina-Espurz, is a timely contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics. The nine chapters presented here expand the scope of research to date by including different contexts (i.e., formal instruction, stay-abroad, and online) and age groups which have received less attention (for example, young learners and adolescents). Whereas the speech act of requesting is the one that has been most explored in the field of interlanguage pragmatics, as attested by several chapters in the present volume, disagreements and directives are also tackled. This book embraces research addressing both elicited and naturally-occurring data in studies which deal with pragmatic use, development, and awareness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victòria Codina-Espurz Part 1: Formal Instruction Contexts 1 Speech Act Acquisition in Instructed Pragmatics: Advanced EFL Learners’ Patterns of Downgrading and Upgrading in Disagreements Karen Glaser 2 Exploring Case Stories in the Development of Textual Discourse-Pragmatic Markers in Formal English Language Classrooms Sofía Martín-Laguna 3 The Pragmatic Competence of CLIL Students across Different Educational Levels in Secondary Stage: the Case of Requests Nashwa Nashaat Sobhy 4 Is Teacher Talk for Very Young Language Learners Pragmatically Tuned? Directives in Two EAL Classrooms Otilia Martí and Laura Portolés Part 2: Study Abroad Contexts 5 Students’ Performance of Hedges in an English Medium Instruction Context: The Impact of Length of Study Abroad Ana Herraiz-Martinez 6 The Role of Individual Differences on Learning Pragmatic Routines in a Study Abroad Context Ariadna Sánchez and Eva Alcón-Soler Part 3: Online Contexts 7 Pragmatic Translanguaging: Multilingual Practice in Adolescent Online Discourse Richard Nightingale and Pilar Safont 8 Student-to-Faculty Email Consultation in English, Spanish and Catalan in an Academic Context Victòria Codina-Espurz and Patricia Salazar-Campillo Conclusion 9 Can You Tell a Move When You Encounter One? Identifying Clues to Communicative Functions Sara Gesuato Index
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Brill The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses
Book SynopsisIn The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European some of the world’s leading experts in historical linguistics shed new light on two hypotheses about the prehistory of the Indo-European language family, the so-called Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic hypotheses. The Indo-Anatolian hypothesis states that the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family should be viewed as a sister language of ‘classical’ Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of all the other, non-Anatolian branches. The common ancestor of all Indo-European languages, including Anatolian, can then be called Proto-Indo-Anatolian. The Indo-Uralic hypothesis states that the closest genetic relative of Indo-European is the Uralic language family, and that both derive from a common ancestor called Proto-Indo-Uralic. The book unravels the history of these hypotheses and scrutinizes the evidence for and against them. Contributors are Stefan H. Bauhaus, Rasmus G. Bjørn, Dag Haug, Petri Kallio, Simona Klemenčič, Alwin Kloekhorst, Frederik Kortlandt, Guus Kroonen, Martin J. Kümmel, Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg, Alexander Lubotsky, Rosemarie Lühr, Michaël Peyrot, Tijmen Pronk, Andrei Sideltsev, Michiel de Vaan, Mikhail Zhivlov.Table of ContentsThe Geopolitics of Cyberspace: a Diplomatic Perspective Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 Geopolitics 3 Classical Geopolitics 4 Critical Geopolitics 5 Cyberspace 6 The Geography of Cyberspace 7 Internet Governance 8 Cybersecurity 9 International Law in Cyberspace 10 Attribution 11 The Cybersecurity Dilemma 12 Deterrence 13 Arms Control 14 Neutrality 15 What Happens in Cyberspace Stays in Cyberspace … 16 Geopolitics of States in Cyberspace 17 The United States of America 18 Russia 19 China 20 The European Union 21 Internet Companies 22 The Implications for Diplomacy and Foreign Policy 23 Conclusion Bibliography Author Biography
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Brill New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of revised versions of presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors. The roundtable discussed the evolution of historical linguistics since the 1966 symposium on “Directions for Historical Linguistics,” held in Austin, Texas. Six prominent scholars of historical linguistics and sociolinguistics contributed: William Labov (the only surviving author from the 1968 volume), Gillian Sankoff, Elizabeth Traugott, Brian Joseph, Sarah Thomason, and Paul Hopper (a graduate student assistant at the original symposium).Table of ContentsPreface 1 Where Was Historical Linguistics in 1968 and Where Is It Now? Marc Pierce and Hans C. Boas 2 What Has Been Built on Empirical Foundations William Labov 3 Building on Empirical Foundations: Individual and Community Change in Real Time Gillian Sankoff 4 Timely Notes on Saussure and Hermann Paul after 1968 Paul J. Hopper 5 Historical Linguistics Since 1968: on Some of the Causes of Linguistic Change Sarah G. Thomason 6 Precursors of Work on Grammaticalization and Constructionalization in Directions for Historical Linguistics Elizabeth Closs Traugott 7 Historical Linguistics in the 50 Years Since Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968) Brian D. Joseph Index
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Brill Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian
Book SynopsisIn Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian, Bozhil Hristov investigates key aspects of the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a unified approach. The book reassesses some long-held notions and functionalist assumptions and shines the spotlight on certain areas that have received less attention, such as the role of ambiguity in actual usage. The detailed analysis of rich, contextualised material from a selection of texts dovetails with large-scale corpus studies, complementing their findings and enhancing our understanding of the phenomena. This monograph thus presents a happy marriage of traditional philological techniques and recent advances in theoretical linguistics and corpus work.
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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
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Brill The Phrygian Language
Book SynopsisThis book provides an updated view of our knowledge about Phrygian, an Indo-European language attested to have been spoken in Anatolia between the 8th century BC and the Roman Imperial period. Although a linguistic and epigraphic approach is the core of the book, it covers all major topics of research on Phrygian: the historical and archaeological contexts in which the Phrygian texts were found, a comprehensive grammar with diachronic and comparative remarks, an overview of the linguistic contacts attested for Phrygian, a discussion about its position within the Indo-European language family, a complete lexicon and index of the Phrygian inscriptions, a study of the Phrygian glosses and a complete, critical catalogue of the Phrygian inscriptions with new readings and interpretations.
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Brill Yiddish as a Mixed Language: Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact and Its Linguistic Outcome
Book SynopsisYiddish, the language of Eastern-European Jews, has so far been mostly described as Germanic within the framework of the traditional, divergence-based Language Tree Model. Meanwhile, advances in contact linguistics allow for a new approach, placing the idiom within the mixed language spectrum, with the Slavic component playing a significant role. So far, the Slavic elements were studied as isolated, adstratal borrowings. This book argues that they represent a coherent system within the grammar. This suggests that the Slavic languages had at least as much of a constitutive role in the inception and development of Yiddish as German and Hebrew. The volume is copiously illustrated with examples from the vernacular language. With a contribution of Anna Pilarski, University of Szczecin.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations 1 Max Weinreich and Slavic Component of Yiddish Michał Gajek 1 Introduction 2 Max Weinreich on Slavic-Yiddish Language Contact—Attempts at Revision 3 Slavic Elements in Subsystems of Yiddish 4 Discussion and Conclusions 2 Yiddish in the Framework of the Mixed Language Debate Ewa Geller and Michał Gajek 1 Introduction 2 Defining Terminology 3 Yiddish-Slavic Language Contact 4 Language Shift in Inception of Eastern Yiddish 5 Borrowing in Development of Eastern Yiddish 6 Yiddish as Mixed Language 7 Conclusions 3 Role of Slavic Matter Borrowings in New Pattern Grammaticalization Ewa Geller 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical Framework 3 Method 4 Analysis and Its Results 5 Conclusions 4 De-Construction of German-Type Compounds Agata Reibach 1 Introduction 2 Methods 3 Compound Types in Yiddish 4 Compounds in Yiddish Component Languages 5 Results 6 Conclusions 5 Core Vocabulary Borrowability Restrictions: Case of Semantic Field ‘Body’ Agata Reibach 1 Introduction 2 Methods 3 Results 4 Discussion and Desiderata Appendix 6 Convergence of Syntactic Structures of Yiddish and Polish Direct Interrogative Sentences: Remarks on Parametric Structure of CP and wh-Movement Anna Pilarski 1 Introduction 2 Methods 3 Analysis 4 Results 5 Conclusions 7 Yiddish as Donor Language for Polish Michał Gajek 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Issues 3 Yiddish Loanwords in Polish—Integration and Assimilation 4 Yiddishisms in Polish Vocabulary as Example of Low-Variety Influence 5 Conclusions and Desiderata References Index
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Brill Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on different forms of border-crossing, from lived experience to literary imagination and from specific journeys in precise contexts to the conceptualisation of the shift from life to death. In the range of its contributions – applying linguistic, historical, archaeological, architectural, archival, literary, and theological analyses – it seeks to bring together disciplines and geographical areas of study that are too often strangers to one another in medieval studies. Contributors are Sherif Abdelkarim, Anna Adamska, Adrien Carbonnet, Wim De Clercq, Florian Dolberg, Joshua S. Easterling, Susan Irvine, Marco Mostert, Richard North, James Plumtree, Euan McCartney Robson, Beatrice Saletti, Simon C. Thomson and Gerben Verbrugghe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fearing, Facing, and Being a Stranger S.C. Thomson 1 Studying Communication in the Margins of Medieval Society Marco Mostert 2 HITting on Migration in the Murky Middle Ages: Advocating an Interdisciplinary Approach A Case Study in Old English/Old Norse Language Contact Florian Dolberg 3 The Language of the Mute Strangers: The Ambivalent Position of the German Language in the Late Medieval Polish Kingdom Anna Adamska 4 How Foreigners Entered Italian Cities in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna Beatrice Saletti 5 Little Flanders Beyond Wales: The Historical Context of Flemish Settlement Landscapes in South Pembrokeshire Gerben Verbrugghe and Wim De Clercq 6 Repopulating the City with Strangers: The Forced Colonization of Arras by the King of France Louis XI (1479–1484) Adrien Carbonnet 7 Strangers in the Cathedral: Place, Landscape and Nostalgia in Symeon of Durham’s Libellus de Exordio Euan McCartney Robson 8 Resident Stranger: Sæmundr in the Ashkenaz Richard North 9 The Perils of Medieval Bridges: Gregory, Grendel and Gawain Susan Irvine 10 Strange Confessions: Salvation and Prayers for the Dead in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles Joshua S. Easterling 11 Placing the Green Children of Woolpit James Plumtree 12 Afterword Sherif Abdelkarim Bibliography Index
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Brill A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'ānic Arabic
Book SynopsisThis work does not aim to be an etymological dictionary of Qur'ānic Arabic, nor does it attempt to suggest some new genetic classification of the Semitic languages. Rather, it offers insights into the internal lexical relationships attested in a number of Semitic varieties. The work is based on a quantitative analysis of a substantial corpus of the Arabic lexicon with a view to investigating lexical relationships within a number of Semitic languages. Qur'ānic Arabic is the source of a lexical mass comparison exercise involving Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician, Epigraphic South Arabian and Ge‘ez. Moreover, the lexical links identified in this study are in themselves linguistic indicators of the various degrees of cultural proximity characterising the various Semitic languages.
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Brill The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification
Book SynopsisThe Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviation of Corpora and Reference Works Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names 1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology 1 Introduction 2 The Notion of Aeolic in Antiquity 3 19th Century Debates: Ahrens, Meister, and Hoffmann 4 Twentieth Century Developments 5 The Twenty-First Century: Problems and Methods, Old and New 6 Resolving the Impasse: The Aims and Structure of This Work 2 Methodological Preliminaries 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Considerations in the Selection of Isoglosses 3 Sources and Methodological Issues 4 The Data Collection for This Study 5 Concluding Remarks 3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses 1 Introduction 2 The Position of Mycenaean in Classification and Relative Chronology 3 Some Preliminary Assumptions: Exclusion of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Greek Synapomorphic Characters 4 Common Innovations from Proto-Greek 5 Conclusions 4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses 1 Introduction 2 Isoglosses Shared by Two of Three Dialects 3 Isoglosses Shared with Neighbouring Dialects 4 Conclusions 5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic 1 Introduction 2 The Probabilistic Method 3 Evaluation: Application of the Clade Test to the Aeolic Data 4 Discussion of Results and Some Relative Chronologies 5 Conclusions Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: Catalogue of Epigraphic References Appendix 2: Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables Bibliography Index
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Brill The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic: Regional Variation and Reconstruction
Book SynopsisThe task of reconstructing the reinforced demonstrative paradigm for early Nordic has been called “impossible” by the eminent Einar Haugen. In The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic, Eric T. Lander aims to accomplish exactly this, by way of an exhaustive study of the pronoun’s attestations in the Viking Age runic inscriptions, which are the earliest forms of this item to be recorded in Scandinavia. The detailed picture of regional variation that emerges is then used to inform reconstructions of the paradigm from Proto-Nordic to Common Nordic. The book represents the first serious attempt in historical-comparative linguistics to grapple with the morphological development of the North-West Germanic reinforced demonstrative since the work of 19th-century scholars like Sophus Bugge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Abbreviations Conventions Followed 1 Introducing the Reinforced Demonstrative 1.1 The Germanic Family Tree 1.2 (Reinforced) Demonstratives 1.3 Treatment in the Literature 1.4 Goals and Outline of the Book 2 Synchronic and Diachronic Background 2.1 Basic Concepts and Terms 2.2 A Typology of rdem Forms 2.3 Doubly Inflected (Hybrid I/II) Forms 2.4 A Generalization about D and KD 2.5 Etymologies 2.6 Summary of Types and Etymologies 3 A Methodology for Studying the Viking Age Material 3.1 Background on Runes 3.2 Method 3.3 Critique of Massengale (1972) 3.4 Summary of Methods 4 Regional Variation: si, sa, a, and i Forms 4.1 Background 4.2 Data 4.3 Analysis 4.4 Sociolinguistic Evidence 4.5 The i and Endingless Variants 4.6 Taking Stock 5 Regional Variation: Internal vs. External Inflection 5.1 Background: Gemination in the New Stem 5.2 Data 5.3 Taking Stock 6 Paradigm Reconstructions 6.1 Loss of Generalized dem-si 6.2 Proto-Nordic 6.3 Common Nordic 6.4 Summary 7 Conclusion 7.1 Variation in the m.acc.sg and n.nom/acc.sg 7.2 Internal to External Inflection: A Fitful Evolution 7.3 Etymological and Reconstructive Considerations Appendix 1: List of rdem Attestations in the Runic Corpus Appendix 2: Supplementary Tables Bibliography Index
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Brill The Old English Case System: Case and Argument Structure Constructions
Book SynopsisThe Old English Case System. Case and Argument Structure Constructions by Kirsten Middeke is a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work. This is the first major study on Old English morphosyntax from a constructional perspective, based on findings from various strands of theoretical linguistics, including generative approaches, constructionist accounts, quantitative linguistics, and many more. It argues for a new take on historical comparative syntax, a field which has been dormant for quite a while but might see a new boost through the ideas presented here.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: And gefnǣs þone tōþ … 1.1 Studying Old English Argument Structure from a Construction-Grammar Perspective 1.2 The Lexicon Is Not Boring! Cognitive Historical Linguistics 1.3 Objectives 1.4 Organization 1.5 Notes on the Text 2 Not Balanced: The Database 2.1 Corpora and Methods of Data Collection and Analysis 2.2 The Verb as a Diagnostic for Constructional Meaning 2.3 Doing Cognitive Linguistics with Historical Corpora 3 Theoretical Preliminaries 3.1 Constructions 3.2 Valency 3.3 Construal 3.4 Semantic Roles 3.5 Formalism 4 Origins, Wholes, Stimuli—and Aspect? The Genitive 4.1 Introduction: Genitivus is gestrȳnendlīc 4.2 The Old English Genitive as a Family-Resemblance Category 4.3 Functions of Arguments and Adjuncts in the Genitive 4.4 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Genitive 5 Place, Time and Manner: The Instrumental 5.1 Introduction: A Case or Not a Case Any More? 5.2 The Old English Instrumental: Forms and History 5.3 Distributional Analysis: Frequencies and Collexemes 5.4 Fixed Formulae or Productive Pattern? 5.5 Factors Influencing the Frequency of the Instrumental 5.6 The Semantic Networks of the Instrumental 5.7 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Instrumental 6 Recipients and Addressees, Beneficiaries and Experiencers: The Dative 6.1 Introduction: Dativus is forgyfendlīc 6.2 Functions of Arguments and Adjuncts in the Dative 6.3 Functions of Datives with Nouns and Adjectives 6.4 Formally Assigned Datives 6.5 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Dative 7 Patients, Targets, Direct Objects? The Accusative 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Functions of Arguments and Adjuncts in the Accusative 7.3 Discussion: The Accusative in Semantic Space 7.4 Evaluation: Semantic and Syntactic Case? 7.5 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Accusative 8 Affectees: Oblique Case and Impersonal Constructions 8.1 Introduction: Impersonal Constructions Are Not Quirky! 8.2 Old English Impersonal Clause Patterns and their Associated Event Types 8.3 Discussion: How many Impersonal Constructions are there, and where do they Come from? 8.4 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Oblique Affectee Constructions 9 Agent, Topic, Subject? The Nominative 9.1 Introduction: The Case of the Subject? 9.2 Functions of Arguments in the Nominative 9.3 Functions of hit and þæt 9.4 Synthesis: The Functions of the Old English Nominative 10 Synthesis and Theoretical Implications 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Construction Grammar: Case Constructions and Argument Structure Constructions 10.3 Valency: Verbs and Argument Structures, Integration and Coercion 10.4 The Construct-i-con: Contextual Neutralization, Constructional Synonymy and Co-extensive Categories 10.5 Conclusion: A Construction Grammar Approach to Old English Argument Structure Appendix to Chapter 4 Appendix to Chapter 5 Appendix to Chapter 6 Appendix to Chapter 8 References Index
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Brill The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
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.
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Brill Religiöse Kommunikation im Umbrischen und Hethitischen: Fachsprachlichkeit in Ritualtexten und Gebeten
Book SynopsisThis monograph contributes substantially/valuably? to the identification of the communicative and textual parameters which characterize ritual language as a language for special purposes. Case studies from Umbrian and Hittite. Die vorliegende Monographie leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erfassung der textuellen und kommunikativen Parameter ritueller Fachsprache des Umbrischen und Hethitischen und zeichnet sich besonders durch ihre interdisziplinäre Perspektive und Methodik aus.Table of ContentsVorwort Abbildungsverzeichnis Abkürzungen und Symbole 1 Einleitung 1.1 Sprachzeugnisse als Texte 1.2 Chancen der textlinguistischen Betrachtung 1.3 Definition Pragmatik 1.4 Kriterien der Textsortenbestimmung 1.5 Relevanz textpragmatischer Fragestellungen für die Indogermanistik 1.6 Konkrete Zielsetzung und Vorgehensweise 1.7 Literatur 1.8 Ausblick auf die vorliegende Untersuchung 2 Fachsprache und Fachkommunikation 2.1 Direkte und indirekte Zugänge: Antike Fachsprachen 2.2 Moderne Fachsprachenforschung 2.3 Anwendungsbeispiele aus der Klassischen Philologie 2.4 Evaluation der Definitionsgrundlagen 2.5 Systematisierung der Parameter 2.6 Vorschlag einer Definition für die vorliegende Untersuchung 2.7 Ritualfachsprache 2.8 „Sakrale Sprache“ 3 Religiöse Rituale 3.1 Definitionen und zentrale Eigenschaften 3.2 Funktionen von Ritualen 3.3 „Magische“ Rituale 3.4 Stabilität vs. Variation 3.5 Agency 3.6 Religion und Ritual als coping mechanisms 4 Hethitische Rituale 4.1 Hethitische Eide 4.2 Hethitische Festrituale 4.3 Hethitische Beschwörungsrituale 5 Die Iguvinischen Tafeln und lateinischen Ritualtexte 5.1 Römische Priesterbücher 5.2 Die Iguvinischen Tafeln 5.3 Textgeschichte und Gliederung der Tafeln 5.4 Die Bruderschaft Atiedia 5.5 Datierung und Schrift 5.6 Die nicht-festen Rituale der Iguvinischen Tafeln 5.7 Die Kalenderfeste 5.8 Regelungen der Bruderschaft Atiedia 5.9 Vergleichstexte aus dem Lateinischen Hauptteil der Untersuchung Einleitung 6 Textfunktion und Textsortenbestimmung der Ritualtexte 6.1 Sprechakttheoretischer Ansatz 6.2 Textillokution und sprachliche Indikatoren 6.3 Sprachliche Mittel zur Umsetzung direktiver Sprechakte 6.4 Direktivausdrücke in altindogermanischen Sprachen 6.5 Direktive Sprechakte und politeness theory 6.6 Direktivausdrücke und Fachtextsorten 6.7 Direktivausdrücke in den Iguvinischen Tafeln 6.8 Direktivausdrücke und Textillokution in den hethitischen Ritualtexten 6.9 Indikatoren der Textillokution in Ritualtexten 6.10 Textillokution der Ritualtexte: Fazit 7 Stabilisierung und Kontrolle ritueller Kommunikation 7.1 Probleme ritueller Kommunikation und Notwendigkeit der Stabilisierung 7.2 Verständnissichernde Maßnahmen in ritueller Kommunikation 7.3 Systematisierung und Kategorien der Maßnahmen 7.4 Kontrollstrategien in Gebeten und Ritualanweisungen 7.5 Aufrechterhalten von Agency: Kontroll- und Reparaturmechanismen 7.6 Fehlerprävention und präventive Absicherung 7.7 Ausdrücke des eigenen Ermessens: Systematisierung 7.8 Stabilisierung und Kontrolle ritueller Kommunikation: Fazit 8 Textualität von Ritualen und Ritualvorschriften 8.1 Textualität und Fachsprachlichkeit 8.2 Vorüberlegungen zu den Konzepten von Kohäsion und Kohärenz 8.3 Zentrale Bereiche der Textkohärenz 8.4 Pragmatisch-funktionale Systematisierung 8.5 Mittel zur Herstellung voller Determiniertheit 8.6 Kohärenztechniken mit verdichtender (ökonomischer) Funktion 8.7 Textkohärenz in Ritualanweisungen: Fazit 9 Gesamtfazit der Untersuchung 9.1 Ergebnisse der Hauptkapitel 9.2 Charakteristika ritueller Fachtexte: Gesamtergebnis Literaturverzeichnis Index zitierter Textstellen
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Brill Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two language families of North America that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia. It brings together all that has been proposed to date under the respective rubrics of the Uralo-Siberian (Eskimo-Yukaghir-Uralic) hypothesis and the Dene-Yeniseian hypothesis. The evolution of the two parallel research strategies for fleshing out these linguistic links between North America and Asia are compared and contrasted. Although focusing on stringently controlled linguistic reconstructions, the volume draws upon archaeological and human genetic data where relevant.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Michael Fortescue and Edward Vajda Part 1 The Uralo-Siberian Hypothesis 1 Overview 2 The Eskaleut, Uralic and Yukaghir Languages 2.1 Eskaleut 2.2 Uralic 2.3 Yukaghir 3 The History of the Hypothesis 4 Uralo-Siberian Cognates 4.1 The Basis of the Reconstructions: Sound Correspondences 4.2 Proto-Uralo-Siberian Stems 4.3 Proto-Uralo-Siberian Morphology 4.4 Summary 5 The Relationship to Chukotko-Kamchatkan 6 The Emergence of Ergativity in Eskaleut and Siberian Languages 7 Aleut Lexical Items Not Attested in Eskimoan: Evidence of a Substratum? 8 Sirenikski: Remnant Asian Eskimoan 8.1 The Position of Sirenikski within Eskimoan 8.2 Sirenikski Phonology and Lexicon 8.3 Sirenikski Morphology 8.4 The Idiosyncrasy of Sirenikski 9 Support from Archaeology and Population Genetics 9.1 The Dispersal of Uralo-Siberian: A Model 9.2 Archaeological Support for the Model 9.3 Genetic Support for the Model Part 2 The Dene-Yeniseian Hypothesis 1 Overview 2 Yeniseian Languages 3 Na-Dene: Tlingit, Eyak, and Dene (Athabaskan) Languages 4 Dene-Yeniseian Phonology 5 Dene-Yeniseian Cognates 6 Form Classes and Noun Morphology 7 Possessive Constructions 7.1 Yeniseian Possessive Morphology 7.2 Dene-Eyak Noun Class Markers and Qualifiers 7.3 Postpositional Constructions 7.4 Directionals 7.5 Demonstratives and Interrogatives 7.6 Summary 8 Finite Verb Morphology 8.1 The Origin of Dene-Yeniseian Templatic Polysynthesis 8.2 Na-Dene Classifier Prefixes 8.3 The Proto-Yeniseian Template 8.4 Tense-Aspect-Mood Affixes 8.5 Agreement Morphology 8.6 Contact-Induced Changes in the Yeniseian Daughter Templates 8.7 Areal Influence on Na-Dene Verb Morphology 8.8 Action Nominals 8.9 Concluding Remarks on Dene-Yeniseian Verb Morphology 9 Summary of the Linguistic Evidence for Dene-Yeniseian 10 Perspectives on Dene-Yeniseian from Genetics and Archaeology 11 Summary and Future Perspectives Concluding Discussion Michael Fortescue and Edward Vajda Appendix 1: P-US to English; English to P-US Appendix 2: P-DY to English; English to P-DY References Index
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Brill The Gothic Resultative: Non-agentive Verbs and Perfect Expression in Early Germanic
Book SynopsisGothic is unique among Germanic languages in regards to the ways it expresses non-agentive actions. It both retains a formal passive and has two periphrastic passives. In addition it presents an intransitive verb class with generally inchoative meaning. R. Moses Katz examines the semantics of these categories and shows how they provide a robust non-agentive paradigm in Gothic, including a functional, result-state perfect in the passive. In two parts, he examines first the inchoative verb and then the periphrastic passive. He proposes that the development of both types is underpinned by a single argument structure based on the resultative, a coordinated event type that links a transition with a resulting state.Table of ContentsList of Tables Notations Part 1 Preliminaries 1 Introduction 1.1 Objective and Scope 1.2 Overview of the Gothic Corpus 1.3 The Gothic Translation Process 1.4 Translation and the Gothic Vorlage 2 Grammatical Theories and Constructs 2.1 Voice 2.2 Unaccusativity 2.3 Tense, Mood and Aspect 2.4 Telicity 2.5 Event-Boundedness 2.6 The Vendler Taxonomy of Verbal Types 2.7 The Copula and the Auxiliary 2.8 Resultativity and Its Types 2.9 Resultativity in Distributed Morphology 3 The Perfect 3.1 Characteristics of the Perfect 3.2 Construction and Readings of the Perfect 3.3 The Indefinite Past Theory of the Perfect 3.4 Semantics of the Perfect via the Indefinite Past Theory 4 Language-Specific Verbal Systems 4.1 The TMA System of Koine Greek 4.2 The TMA System of Gothic Part 2 The -nan Verb in Gothic 5 Historical Development of Nasal Verb Classes 6 Descriptive Approaches to the -nan Verb 6.1 The Passive Approach 6.2 The Intransitive-Inchoative Approach 6.3 Non-inchoative Approaches 7 Positioning -nan Verbs in Developmental Systems 7.1 System of Valence: -nan as Detransitivized Predicates 7.2 System of Diathesis: -nan as Middle Voice 7.3 System of Causation: -nan as Anticausative 7.4 System of Argument Structure: -nan as Resultative 8 Toward a Semantic Description of -nan Verbs 8.1 -nan Verbs and Adjectives 8.2 -nan verbs and Passive Participles 8.3 Section Summary: Destatal and Deadjectival 8.4 Statal Semantics: The aukan System 8.5 End-Point Semantics 8.6 Examples of Seemingly Non-fientive Semantics in -nan Verbs 8.7 Summary 9 Toward a Syntactic Description of -nan Verbs 9.1 Structural Model of Resultative Constructions 9.2 A Semantic Characterization of Deadjectival Fientives and -nan Verbs 9.3 Implications 9.4 Summary: Perfectivization as a Constraint on Aspect Part 3 The Periphrastic Passive in Gothic 10 Views of the Periphrastic Passive 10.1 Periphrasis as “False” Passive 10.2 Periphrasis as Passive and Resultative 10.3 Lexical Aspect as an Interpretive Means of Choosing a Periphrasis 10.4 Lexical Aspect as a Systematic Means of Choosing a Periphrastic 10.5 Consensus Concerning Lexical Aspect in Gothic 11 Periphrasis as a Method for Translation 11.1 Proposal 11.2 Previous Analyses 11.3 Methodology 11.4 The wisan Periphrasis: Overview 11.5 The wairþan Periphrasis: Overview 12 Past-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates 12.1 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist 12.2 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect 12.3 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle 12.4 Past-Time Periphrases and the Greek Imperfect 12.5 Comparison of the Gothic Periphrases in the Past Tense 13 Present-Time Periphrases and Greek Predicates 13.1 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Perfect 13.2 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Supplementary Perfect Participle 13.3 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Present 13.4 Present-Time Periphrases and the Greek Aorist 14 Statistical Analysis of Periphrastic Passives 14.1 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic Past and Non-past 14.2 Distribution of Features: Greek Aorist to Gothic was + PP vs. warþ + PP 15 Comparison of Periphrastic Passives 16 Resultativity as a Means to a Full Passive Paradigm 17 Proposing a Perfect Passive Semantics 18 Toward a Syntactic Description of Gothic Periphrases 19 Diachronic Implications 19.1 The State of the ‘Be’ Passive in Gothic 19.2 The State of the ‘Become’ Passive in Gothic Appendix 1: Gothic Periphrases Appendix 2: Clausal Features of Gothic Periphrases References Index
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Brill Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond
Book SynopsisProfessor Alexander V. Vovin’s fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin’s 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut, Mongolian, Chinese, Hachijō, Ikema Miyakoan, Ainu, Okinawan, Nivkh, Eskimo-Aleut and other languages. The chapters are both a tribute to his research and a summary of the latest developments in the field.Table of ContentsBiography of Alexander Vovin John Kupchik List of Publications by Alexander Vovin Tabula Gratulatoria Acknowledgements Introduction John Kupchik Part 1: East and Southeast Asia 1 The Last Days of Old Japanese Early Heian Gloss Texts and the Periodization of Japanese Language History Sven Osterkamp 2 Evidence of the Authorship of Nihon shoki John Bentley 3 On otsu-rui Ci₂ and Ce₂ and Root-Final Consonants in Pre-Old Japanese Bjarke Frellesvig 4 A Brief History of Linguistics in Japan With Special Reference to Studies on the Origin of the Japanese Language Toshiki Osada 5 Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan Yukinori Takubo 6 The Etymology of maabu in Ryukyuan Moriyo Shimabukuro 7 Ainu Loanwords in Hachijō John Kupchik 8 Gaps in Transcriptions Chinese and Japanese Mid Front Vowels Transcribed in Korean Hangul Chihkai Lin 9 Retroflexion or Disyllabism? A Kra Puzzle Marc Miyake Part 2: Central and Western Asia 10 A Geographic and Lexical Puzzle: Colors in Names of Seas Irène Tamba 11 Hmong-Mien and Rgyalrongic Guillaume Jacques 12 Two Notes on the ‛Phags-pa Script Dieter Maue 13 Preliminary Report on Louis Ligeti’s Khitan Wordlist: The Numerals Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky 14 Khitan ‘Coffin’ András Róna-Tas 15 Chinese Loanwords in Chapter 10 of the Old Uyghur Xuanzang Biography Mehmet Ölmez 16 Karachay-Balkar andız The Case of a Phytonym in Turkic and Beyond Uwe Bläsing 17 On a Turkic Loanword in the Secret History of the Mongols Middle Mongol aram ‘(Cattle) Pen’ Pavel Rykin 18 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (5) The Status of Glides in Mongolic Juha Janhunen Part 3: Northern Asia and Across the Bering Strait 19 The Common Features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: The Fate of the Mongolic *s Bayarma Khabtagaeva 20 Consonant Assimilations, Sibilants and Alveolars in Yakut Marek Stachowski 21 In Search of Evidentiality in Nivkh Ekaterina Gruzdeva 22 From Macroetymology to Microetymology Some Thoughts on Wanderwörter and Diachronic Dialectology José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente Index
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Brill Linguistic Studies on Biblical Hebrew
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the research insights of twelve new studies by fourteen linguists examining a range of Biblical Hebrew grammatical phenomena. The contributions proceed from the second international workshop of the Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology network (www.BHLaP.wordpress.com), initiated in 2017 to bring together theoretical linguists and Hebraists in order to reinvigorate the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar. Recent linguistic theory is applied to the study of the ancient language, and results in innovative insight into pausal forms, prosodic dependency, ordinal numeral syntax, ellipsis, the infinitive system, light verbs, secondary predicates, verbal semantics of the Hiphil binyan, and hybrid constructions.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Linguistic Theory and Philology in the Study of Biblical Hebrew Robert Holmstedt 2 Pausal vs. Context Forms in Tiberian Hebrew: A Multi-Planer Analysis of Vowel Reduction and Stress Roman Himmelreich and Outi Bat-El 3 Prosodic Dependency in Tiberian Hebrew Vincent DeCaen and B. Elan Dresher 4 Ordinals in Biblical Hebrew Susan Rothstein and Adina Moshavi 5 Investigating Ellipsis in Biblical Hebrew Robert D. Holmstedt 6 A Unified Account of the Infinitive Absolute in Biblical Hebrew Elizabeth Cowper and Vincent Decaen 7 The Nature of the Infinitive Absolute Galia Hatav 8 The Infinitive in Biblical Hebrew Edit Doron 9 Light Verbs in Biblical Hebrew Tod Snider 10 Argument Sharing Secondary Predicates in Biblical Hebrew Jacques Boulet 11 The Causative-Inchoative Alternation and the Semantics of Hiphil Kevin Grasso 12 Hybrid Syntactic Constructions in BH Tamar Zewi Index
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Brill Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition
Book SynopsisVerbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages. The relationship among the cognitive verbs of individual languages is essentially one of metonymy, and the book investigates in detail the specific metonymic relationships involved, as revealed largely by the polysemous spread of word meanings. The data is projected against a circular ‘map’ of interrelated cognitive categories.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Thinking in General 3 Understanding 4 Knowing 5 Believing 6 Remembering 7 Thinking about 8 Judging (Considering) 9 Calculating 10 Deciding 11 Guessing 12 Intending 13 Imagining 14 Expecting 15 Wishing 16 Emotional Feelings 17 Surprise 18 Experiencing (Feeling) 19 Perceiving (Noticing) 20 Recognizing 21 Full Circle 22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category 23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion 24 Seeming: An Odd One Out? 25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others 26 Conclusions Sources for Languages Cited Appendix 1: A Sentimental Circle Appendix 2: Raw Lexical Data References Index
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Brill The Footprints of the Buddha: The Text and the Language
Book Synopsis“The echo of the stone/ where I carved the [Buddha’s] honorable footprints/ reaches the Heaven, […]”. This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji temple in Nara. All these inscriptions praise the footprints of Buddha, and more exactly their carvings in the stone. The language of the Japanese inscription, which consists of twenty-one poems, reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system shows a quite unique trait, being practically monophonic. The book is richly illustrated by photos of the temple and of the inscriptions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Charts and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 Hōssō Sect of the Japanese Buddhism 2 Bussokuseki and Bussoku seki-no uta 3 Inscriptions on the Footprints Stone 4 Stele Inscription 5 Previous Research 6 Poetic Form 1 Translation of Chinese Inscriptions and Commentary 2 Translation, Glossing, and Morphemic Analysis of Old Japanese Poems A Commentary to the Old Japanese Poems 3 The Description of the Language of the Poems 1 Graphemics and Phonology 2 Grammar 3 Vocabulary 4 List of Grammatical Morphemes Appendix: Photographs of the Inscriptions Bibliography
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Brill When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean
Book SynopsisGenerations of West Indian migrants have long called Central America home. The descendants of these Creole English speakers live in communal enclaves along the Caribbean coast of Central America, where their Creole heritage and language are in contact zones with Spanish language and culture. When Creoles and Spanish Collide: Language and Culture in the Caribbean presents contemporary insight into these intra-Caribbean diasporic communities on how they grapple with evolving Creole identity and representation, language contact, language endangerment, and linguistic discrimination. Communal resilience oftentimes manifests itself via linguistic innovation and creativity. Editors Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky showcase the scholarship of emerging and established regional and transatlantic scholars in When Creoles and Spanish Collide, which serves as a decolonizing research space.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Acronyms Notes on Contributors Preface: When Creole and Spanish Collide Glenda-Alicia Leung and Miki Loschky part 1: Semiotics and Literary Imaginings in Creole Contexts 1 Colombian Caribbean: Theory, Criticism and Writing Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega 2 If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia Falcon Restrepo-Ramos part 2: Linguistic Clash and Consequence 3 Language Variation, Language Ideologies, and Challenges to Language Development in the Creole-Speaking Communities of San Andrés, Providence, and the Nicaraguan Coast Angela Bartens 4 Lexical Transfer from Spanish into Limonese Creole Marva Spence Sharpe 5 Limonese Syllable Structure: Language Innovation in Creoles Marisol Joseph-Haynes, Camille A. Wagner Rodríguez and Yolanda Rivera Castillo 6 “Lo que hacen mix es el Kriol y el English”: How Spanish Speakers Reconcile Linguistic Encounters with English and Kriol in Belize Nicté Fuller Medina part 3: Creole Counter-Clash 7 Perceptions on Language, Identity and Culture by Dominicans on St. Thomas, u.s. Virgin Islands Daniel S. D’Arpa 8 Language Attrition in Papiamentu-Jamaican Creole Contact: Revelations of the Determiner Phrase Trecel Messam part 4: Evolving Ethnicities in the Diaspora 9 When a Paña Speaks Creole: Crossing Ethnolinguistic Boundaries Monique Schoch Angel 10 Afro-Panamanian Creolization Francis Njubi Nesbitt part 5: Living Linguistic Identities and Ideologies 11 The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Spanish in Multilingual Belize Britta Schneider 12 Samples of Linguistic Repertoires, Language Shift Patterns and Perceptions of Spanish in Bluefields, Nicaragua Karen López Alonzo 13 Generalmente el Criol es empezamos en inglés y terminamos en español: Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica Ashley LaBoda Epilogue: Sisters of the Shell Glenda-Alicia Leung, Felisha Maria and Rhea Ramjohn
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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
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Brill Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues
Book SynopsisWas plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation, it engages with the growing discussion of plurilingualism and focuses on fundamental scholarly practices in various premodern and early modern societies—Chinese, Indian, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Islamic, Ancient Greek, and Roman—asking how these were conceived by the agents themselves. The volume will be an indispensable resource for courses on these subjects and on the history of scholarship and reflection on language throughout the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro Part 1 Language Diversity 1.1 Introduction Glenn W. Most 1.2 The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) Joel S. Baden 1.3 A 5th-Century BCE Greek Historian Discusses the Pelasgians and the Origins of the Greek Language Herodotus, Histories Filippomaria Pontani 1.4 Language Arose from Spontaneous Feelings and Reactions to Nature The Doctrine of Epicurus (4th Century BCE) and Lucretius (1st Century BCE) Filippomaria Pontani 1.5 Language Diversity Is a Result of Social Interaction Xunzi’s View on Plurilingualism in 3rd-Century BCE China Dagmar Schäfer 1.6 Language Is a Collective Product of Mankind Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History (1st Century BCE) Filippomaria Pontani 1.7 A 1st-Century BCE/CE Greek Geographer Discusses What a “Barbarian” Language Is in Terms of Homer and the Carians Strabo, Geography Filippomaria Pontani 1.8 Plurilingualism in China and Inner Asia in the 12th Century CE “Khitan Reciting Poetry” Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part 2 Etymology 2.1 Introduction Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro 2.2 An Early Post-Vedic Treatise on the Etymological Explanation of Words Yāska, Etymology Johannes Bronkhorst 2.3 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Analysis of the Methods and Limits of Etymology Plato, Cratylus Glenn W. Most 2.4 A 1st-Century BCE Roman Polymath’s Explanation of the Mysteries of Latin Varro, On the Latin Language Glenn W. Most and Michele Loporcaro 2.5 A 1st-Century CE Stoic Etymological and Allegorical Explanation of Greek Gods Cornutus, Compendium of Greek Theology Glenn W. Most 2.6 Zheng Xuan and Commentarial Etymology (2nd Century CE) Dagmar Schäfer 2.7 Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity (ca. 600 CE) Isidore of Seville, Etymologies Michele Loporcaro and Glenn W. Most 2.8 Buddhist Etymologies from First-Millennium India and China Works by Vasubandhu, Sthiramati and Paramārtha Roy Tzohar 2.9 An Influential Latin Dictionary and Its Etymologies (12th Century CE) in the Linguistic Landscape of Medieval Europe Hugutio of Pisa’s Derivationes Michele Loporcaro Part 3 Lexicography 3.1 Introduction Mårten Söderblom Saarela 3.2 Lexicality and Lexicons from Mesopotamia Markham J. Geller 3.3 Translating Oriental Words into Greek A Papyrus Glossary from the 1st Century CE Filippomaria Pontani 3.4 The Making of Monolingual Dictionaries The Prefaces to the Lexica of Hesychius (6th Century CE) and Photius (9th Century CE) Filippomaria Pontani 3.5 A 10th-Century CE Byzantine Encyclopedia and Lexicon Suda, Letter Sigma Glenn W. Most 3.6 A Dictionary of the Imperial Capital Shen Qiliang’s Da Qing quanshu (1683) Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part 4 Translation 4.1 Introduction Dagmar Schäfer and Markham J. Geller 4.2 Translators of Sumerian The Unsung Heroes of Babylonian Scholarship Markham J. Geller 4.3 The Earliest and Most Complete Story of the Translation of the Pentateuch into Greek (2nd Century BCE) The Letter of Aristeas Benjamin G. Wright III 4.4 “Faithful” and “Unfaithful” Translations The Greco-Latin Tradition in Jerome’s Letter to Pammachius (395/396 CE) Filippomaria Pontani 4.5 A 4th-Century CE Buddhist Note on Sanskrit-Chinese Translation Dao’an’s Preface to the Abridgement of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra Bill M. Mak 4.6 An 8th-Century CE Indian Astronomical Treatise in Chinese The Nine Seizers Canon by Qutan Xida Bill M. Mak 4.7 Two 8th-Century CE Recensions of Amoghavajra’s Buddhist Astral Compendium, Treatise on Lunar Mansions and Planets Bill M. Mak 4.8 Arabic and Arabo-Latin Translations of Euclid’s Elements Sonja Brentjes Part 5 Writing Systems 5.1 Introduction Dagmar Schäfer, Markham J. Geller and Glenn W. Most 5.2 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Myth about the Egyptian Origins of Writing Plato, Phaedrus Glenn W. Most 5.3 A Buddhist Mahāyāna Account of the Coming into Being of Language The Descent into Laṅkā Scripture (Laṅkāvatārasūtra) Roy Tzohar 5.4 Stories of Origin Ibn al-Nadīm, Kitāb al-Fihrist Sonja Brentjes 5.5 Inventing or Adapting Scripts in Inner Asia The Jin and Yuan Histories and the Early Manchu Veritable Records Juxtaposed (1340s–1630s) Mårten Söderblom Saarela 5.6 An Essay on the Use of Chinese and Korean Language in Late 18th-Century CE Chosŏn Yu Tŭkkong, “Hyang’ŏ pan, Hwaŏ pan” Mårten Söderblom Saarela Index
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Brill The Web of Knowledge: Evidentiality at the Cross-Roads
Book SynopsisKnowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups of meanings related to knowledge are Evidentiality: grammatical expression of information source; Egophoricity: grammatical expression of access to knowledge; Mirativity: grammatical expression of expectation of knowledge; and Epistemic modality: grammatical expression of attitude to knowledge. The four groups of categories interact. Some develop overtones of the others. Evidentials stand apart from other means in many ways, including their correlations with speech genres and social environment. This essay presents a framework which connects the expression of knowledge across the world's languages in a coherent way, showing their dependencies and complexities, and pathways of historical development in various scenarios, including language obsolescence.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables and Illustrations Abstract Keywords Introduction 1 Knowledge through Grammar: A Preamble 2 Links between the Four Groups of Grammatical Categories Related to Knowledge 3 How Evidentials Are Special 4 Access to Information and Information Source: Evidentiality Meets Egophoricity 5 Unequal Relations between Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality 6 Dependencies between Evidentiality and Other Grammatical Categories 7 What Can We Conclude? Appendix: Knowledge through Grammar: Further Categories, Further Options Commentary Books by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Index
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Brill The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek: Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache
Book SynopsisHow can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as τέτρατος beside τέταρτος originate? In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface List of Tables Abbreviations and Conventions 1 The Greek Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ Introduction 1.1 The Problem and Its Relevance 1.2 Environments with a Common Greek or Proto-Greek Reflex αρ, αλ 1.3 The o- and u-Colored Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in the Environment *C_T 1.4 Previous Accounts of - versus - in Ionic-Attic 1.5 Accounting for *r̥ > - 1.6 Outlook 2 Mycenaean Reflexes of *r̥ and the Numeral ‘Four’ Introduction 2.1 Preliminary Remarks on the Use of Personal Names 2.2 An a-Colored Reflex in Mycenaean? 2.3 Evidence for an o-Colored Reflex 2.4 o-Series versus a-Series Spellings 2.5 Explaining the Orthographic Variation between ⟨Co-⟩ and ⟨Co-ro-⟩ 2.6 Ion.-Att. τέταρτος and an Early Simplification of *-tu̯- before *r̥ 2.7 A New Account of Myc. qe-to-ro- and Ion.-Att. τετρα τέτρατος 2.8 Conclusions regarding Mycenaean 3 Reflexes of *r̥ in the Alphabetic Dialects Introduction 3.1 The Alleged Cretan Liquid Metathesis 3.2 Other West Greek Dialects 3.3 The Aeolic Dialects 3.4 Arcado-Cyprian 3.5 Pamphylian 3.6 Conclusions 4 Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in ‘Caland’ Formations Introduction 4.1 The Root Vocalism of Caland Formations in Greek and PIE 4.2 Analogical Reshaping and Re-derivation 4.3 Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in the u-Stem Adjectives 4.4 *βλαδύς versus ἀμαλδύνω 4.5 θρασύς versus θαρσύνω 4.6 Conclusions 5 Reflexes of *r̥ in καρτερός, κράτος and Related Forms Introduction 5.1 Semantics and Etymology 5.2 The Allomorphy of κρατ- and καρτ- in Homer and Classical Greek 5.3 Conclusions concerning the Vocalization of *r̥ 6 Reflexes of *r̥ and muta cum liquida in Epic Greek Introduction 6.1 The Reflex - and the Metrical Behavior of κραδίη 6.2 Muta cum liquida Scansions in Homer 6.3 Wathelet’s Proposal for the Origin of McL in Homer 6.4 Criticism of Wathelet’s Scenario 6.5 Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence for McL in Homer 6.6 Avoidance of McL Scansion in Epic Greek 6.7 Epic *r̥: - Is the Regular Reflex of Artificially Retained *r̥ 6.8 The Evidence for - from Epic *r̥ 6.9 Less Certain Evidence for Epic *r̥ 6.10 Nonce Formations with - in Epic Greek 6.11 Conclusions 7 Epic Forms with - Introduction 7.1 The Dialectal Origin of Forms with - 7.2 -ρο- as a Conditioned Reflex of Epic *r̥ 7.3 Other Forms with - 7.4 Conclusions 8 The Reflexes - and - in Aorist Stems Introduction 8.1 The Evidence 8.2 The Regular Development *r̥ > - in the Thematic Aorist 8.3 The Pattern of Attestation of the Thematic Aorists with - 8.4 Epic *r̥ in the Thematic Aorist? 8.5 Pindaric δρακέντ- 8.6 Conclusions 9 Remaining Issues Concerning *r̥ Introduction 9.1 The Development of *-r̥s- in Ionic-Attic 9.2 Verbs with a Non-ablauting Root CraC- 9.3 An o-Colored Reflex in Attic? 9.4 The Development of *r̥n 9.5 Word-Final *-r̥ 9.6 Further Potential Evidence for - < *r̥ 9.7 Evidence for - and - Left out of Consideration 10 The Reflexes of *l̥ Introduction 10.1 Unknown, Doubtful, or Uncertain Etymologies 10.2 Cases of - and - Influenced by a Full Grade Form 10.3 The Pre-form Did Not Necessarily Contain *l̥ 10.4 Promising Evidence for *l̥ > - 10.5 The Development of *l̥n 10.6 Dialectal Evidence 10.7 Conclusions on *l̥ 11 Relative Chronology Introduction 11.1 The Vocalization of *r̥ as a late and dialectally different development 11.2 Dating the Vocalization of *r̥ in Ionic-Attic 11.3 Dating the Elimination of Epic *r̥ 11.4 Relative Chronology: Other Sound Changes 11.5 Conclusions 12 Conclusion Introduction 12.1 Philological Results and New Etymologies 12.2 Regular Reflexes of PGr. *r̥ in Dialects Other than Ionic and Attic 12.3 Special Reflexes of Proto-Greek *r̥ 12.4 The Reflexes of Proto-Greek *l̥ 12.5 The Double Reflex αρ versus ρα in Ionic-Attic 12.6 The Prehistory of the Epic Tradition 12.7 Relative Chronology and Subgrouping Bibliography Index
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Brill Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia: Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies
Book SynopsisAndrás Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures. This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies. Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ágnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Éva Csáki, Éva Ágnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.Table of ContentsPreface Tabula Gratulatoria List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1 Turkic Studies 1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation Klára Agyagási 2 The Northwest Karaim Lord’s Prayer Éva Á. Csató 3 Testing the Leipzig–Jakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in China Marcel Erdal 4 The Kaepiči [Каепичи] Peter Golden 5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639 Mária Ivanics 6 The Chuvash Aorist Lars Johanson 7 Zu den ‘gelehrten Entlehnungen’ indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen Jens Peter Laut 8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and Translation Raushangul Mukusheva 9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials Zsuzsanna Olach 10 Süci/sücü ‘wine’: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry Benedek Péri 11 Sturtevant’s Law and Chuvash Uli Schamiloglu 12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic Jens Wilkens 13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze Emine Yılmaz 14 Baumwolle und Indigo Peter Zieme Part 2 Mongolic Studies 15 Handle with Care! The Limits of Use of Manuscripts Demonstrated on the Hua-Yi yiyu Texts of the National Central Library Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky 16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobacco—as Means of Communication Based on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna’s Linguistic Records, 1871–1873 Ágnes Birtalan 17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic Juha Janhunen 18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun György Kara 19 The ‘Oirat Fragment’ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value Pavel Rykin 20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France Alexander Vovin 21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit Michael Weiers 22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script Wu Yingzhe Part 3 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts of Altaic Languages 23 An Enigmatic Name for Wild Pears in Zazaki: A Study on Names of Pears in Asia Minor Uwe Bläsing 24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature Folktales Éva Csáki 25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures Edina Dallos 26 On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language Relationship Some Marginal Footnotes on the (Still Ongoing?) Altaic Debate Stefan Georg 27 Siberian Draculesses Elisabetta Ragagnin 28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections János Sipos 29 Turcica and Mongolica in Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī’s Muntakhab al-Tavārīkh István Vásáry 30 On Color Terms in Dagur Bayarma Khabtagaeva
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