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Variation in the Caribbean : From creole continua to individual agency
Jan 2011
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The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue expand and update the dialog between Caribbean variation studies and general sociolinguistics.
Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic : Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies
Jan 2011
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Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However intonational research has only recently begun to devote attention to the analysis of spontaneous speech one of the central issues of this book. The volume contains eight contributions by international scholars some of them members of the Research Center on “Multilingualism” (Hamburg Germany) all of them experts on intonation and most also on multilingualism. A central goal of the present volume is to expand the cross-linguistic and multilingual perspective of phrasing focusing thereby on languages from the Romance and Germanic families among them Catalan French German Italian Occitan and Spanish. Within Spanish special attention is given to several Argentinean varieties and within Italian the Neapolitan variety is compared with the standard one.
English in Europe Today : Sociocultural and educational perspectives
Jan 2011
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This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. Such learning situations constitute the core focus of the book. The volume is unique in bringing together empirical studies examining factors that promote the learning of English in Europe. Rather than assuming that English is a threat to linguistic diversity and cultural independence these studies discuss psycholinguistic factors such as the input and sociolinguistic factors such as the type of English that is targeted in learning. The contributing authors are well-established specialists who have worked on multilingualism English as a Lingua Franca and second language acquisition. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book will be of interest to applied linguists sociolinguists and teachers of English as a foreign language.
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Jan 2011
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This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders but also the linguistic factors that influence them. On that empirical basis the analysis adopted is the classic verb-final approach with alternative orders derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Verb Raising in these historical and modern varieties is subject to morphological prosodic and sociolinguistic restrictions suggesting that the orders in question are not driven by narrow syntax but by their effects at the interface with phonology. This study will be of interest to students and scholars studying the diachronic syntax of German West Germanic dialect syntax and the relationship between prosody and word order.
Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas : With special reference to Africa
Jan 2011
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Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa covering in particular southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social cultural and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa although some demonstrate with examples from non-African linguistic data including Amazonian and European languages how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa.
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