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The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language

This volume grew out of the workshop Writing Language, held at the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen. The papers represent several lines of research into the intricate relation between writing and spoken language: Theoretical and computational linguists discuss the models that explain why orthographies are the way they are and the constraints that hold between writing and speaking a language; researchers in special education deal with the question of how certain aspects of orthography can be learned; and psycholinguists discuss aspects of language processing affected by variation in orthographies.

Writing Systems and Their Use
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Writing Systems and Their Use

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of dive...

Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Southeast European Studies in a Globalizing World

Since the early 1990s, Southeast European studies have undergone profound changes, being shaped by the wars of Yugoslav succession and the ramifications of post-socialism, coupled with democratic deficiencies, which characterize most of Southeast Europe. The countries which it encompasses rest uneasily on the periphery of the developed variant of Western capitalism, but they have nonetheless to contend with the challenges of adjusting to a market economy. The imprint of these contexts on academic research has led to a discussion of the role of Southeast European studies. It is the task of this volume to summarize and raise awareness of this discussion. (Series: Studies on South East Europe - Vol. 16) [Subject: European Studies, Sociology, Politics]

A Grammar of Kharia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

A Grammar of Kharia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Kharia, spoken in central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, which forms the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum, stretching from central India to Vietnam. The present study provides the most extensive description of Kharia to date and covers all major areas of the grammar. Of particular interest in the variety of Kharia described here, is that there is no evidence for assuming the existence of parts-of-speech, such as noun, adjective and verb. Rather functions such as reference, modification and predication are expressed by one of two syntactic structures, referred to here as 'syntagmas'. The volume will be of equal interest to general linguists from the fields of typology, linguistic theory, areal linguistics, Munda linguistics as well as South Asianists in general.

Translocal Care Across Kosovo’s Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Translocal Care Across Kosovo’s Borders

In today’s globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.

Shared Grammaticalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Shared Grammaticalization

This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) — the languages in focus —as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.

Empirical Approaches to the Phonological Structure of Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Empirical Approaches to the Phonological Structure of Words

One of the basic grammatical categories in linguistics is the phonological word. But how are words made up in terms of their sounds? And how is the information on the sound structure of words used in the processing of words? The multidimensionality of the phonological word relates it to semantics, morphology, phonology and syntax. It is nevertheless a category that has only been an object of serious study since the prosodic turn in phonology and thus cannot be considered an established category of grammatical description. This volume brings together scholars interested in the complex relations of the phonological word, applying different empirical approaches.

Visual Prosody
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Visual Prosody

According to well-established views, language has several subsystems where each subsystem (e.g. syntax, morphology, phonology) operates on the basis of hierarchically organised units. When it comes to the graphematic structure of words, however, the received view appears to be that linear structure is all that matters. Contrary to this view, a sub-field of writing systems research emerges that can be called non-linear or supra-segmental graphematics. Drawing on parallels with supra-segmental phonology, supra-segmental graphematics claims the existence and relevance of cross-linguistically available building blocks, such as the syllable and the foot, in alphabetical writing systems, such as t...

Grammatische Modellierung als Grundlage für sprachdidaktische Vermittlung
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 165

Grammatische Modellierung als Grundlage für sprachdidaktische Vermittlung

Linguistische Modelle dienen der Beschreibung sprachlicher Phänomene und Gewinnung weiterer wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, können für die Didaktik nutzbar gemacht werden und im Sprachunterricht Anwendung finden. Die Beiträge des Sonderhefts betrachten die Potenziale grammatischer Modellierungen für einen sprachreflexiven Unterricht, berücksichtigen dabei auch Modellierungen aus dem Bereich DaF. Sie zeigen zudem Konsequenzen auf, die sich für die Ausbildung von angehenden Deutschlehrkräften ergeben. Für eine thematische Verknüpfung und für eine fruchtbare Diskussion kommentieren die Autor:innen ihre Beiträge gegenseitig.

Übergänge im Deutschunterricht und ihre fachliche Gestaltung in den Bildungsstufen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 135

Übergänge im Deutschunterricht und ihre fachliche Gestaltung in den Bildungsstufen

Übergänge in Bildungsinstitutionen beschäftigen nicht nur die betroffenen Eltern und Kinder, sondern auch das in die Übergangsgestaltung involvierte pädagogische Personal. Dabei kommt den Lehrkräften in der Primar- und Sekundarstufe eine wichtige Bedeutung zu, da sie diese sensiblen Situationen von Bildungsübergängen zwischen dem Kindesalter und dem frühen Erwachsenenalter in besonderer Weise prägen und begleiten. Vor welchen Herausforderungen im Speziellen die Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer als Fachlehrkräfte in diesem Zusammenhang stehen, versucht der Band exemplarisch an typischen Feldern des Deutschunterrichts – Schriftspracherwerb und Rechtschreibung, literarisches Le...