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This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types, as well as various valency-decreasing constructions such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters explore synchronic and diachronic aspects of alignment morphosyntax based on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic. All have a strong empirical focus, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, and range from broad comparative studies to detailed investigations of specific constructions in individual languages. The book is one of very few studies to examine variation and change in alignment typology across languages in a single family. It contributes to a greater understanding of the roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, and demonstrates the extent of variation found in the morphosyntax of argument realization in genetically-related languages.
From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices. All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications, in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as: extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo, Tokyo, and Mexico City smaller settings like Paris and Sydney less urbanised places such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and Kohima in India. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and urban studies.
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Este libro combina la reflexión historiográfica y metodológica sobre temas cruciales de la historia americana del antiguo régimen con la presentación en forma narrativa de las fuentes primarias, constituidas por procesos de idolatría que se llevaron a cabo en el obispado de Oaxaca entre los siglos XVI y XVIII.
Aspectos sociolingüísticos en el estudio de la variación geolingüística, variación diatópica de la entonación del español; variación fónica en lenguas indígenas, variables léxicas y morfosintácticas en el establecimiento de áreas dialectales y variación léxica y morfosintáctica
Estudio lingüístico de un corpus de cartas privadas escritas por personas pertenecientes a toda la escala social, que supone un novedoso acercamiento a la lengua española hablada en América en el siglo XVI.