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Global and local perspectives on language contact
This edited volume pays tribute to traditional and innovative language contact research, bringing together contributors with expertise on different languages examining general phenomena of language contact and specific linguistic features which arise in language contact scenarios. A particular focus lies on contact between languages of unbalanced political and symbolic power, language contact and group identity, and the linguistic and societal implications of language contact settings, especially considering contemporary global migration streams. Drawing on various methodological approaches, among others, corpus and contrastive linguistics, linguistic landscapes, sociolinguistic interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, the contributions describe phenomena of language contact between and with Romance languages, Semitic languages, and English(es).
Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation
Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In this vein, the volume tries to answer questions such as to what extent do interactional contexts influence the development of mirative structures or how is the solidarity synchrony / diachrony reflected in mirative constructions.
Language Change in the 20th Century
Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the book advocates for the adoption of innovative methodologies to enhance the nuanced retrieval of research data: the use of speaker’s attitudes questionnaires, apparent time constructions, and S-curves. Additionally, new materials are addressed as diachronic data sources: mass-media recordings from radio and TV, colloquial conversations, and sociolinguistic corpora. Results focus on the evolution of discourse markers, address terms, as well as on the influence of specific processes such as colloquialization or external mechanisms on the language changes developed during this period. In sum, the 20th century is presented in this book as a new strand in diachronic studies, rather than another time span.
Sprachkritik und Sprachberatung in der Romania
Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten die Beschreibung und Bewertung sprachlicher Entwicklungstendenzen und Diskussionen um "guten" und "schlechten" oder "richtigen" und "falschen" Sprachgebrauch im Spannungsverhältnis von öffentlicher und fachwissenschaftlicher Wahrnehmung. Es werden vielfältige Aspekte von Sprachkritik und Sprachberatung in verschiedensten romanischen Ländern untersucht.
Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone
This volume explores word-order phenomena across a phylogenetically diverse sample of languages covering a region loosely referred to as the Western Asian Transition Zone, approximately corresponding to western Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey and the Caucasus. The sample includes representatives from four branches of Indo-European (Iranian, Hellenic, Armenian, Indo-Aryan) as well as Turkic, Semitic, Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian and Northeast Caucasian. Methodologically, we apply a corpus-based approach to word-order, building on two purpose-built and fully accessible data-bases of spoken language corpora, WOWA (Word Order in Western Asia), and HamBam (Hamedan-Bamberg Corpus of Contemp...
Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko
Im Zuge fortschreitender Globalisierung und daraus resultierender Dynamiken geraten indigene Sprachen immer stärker in Konkurrenz zu ‚dominanten‘ Kontaktsprachen. Mexiko ist in diesem Zusammenhang ein besonders markantes Beispiel: Genuin mehrsprachig, ist es gleichzeitig weltweit das Land mit den meisten Spanischsprechern. Die Situation ist von einer jahrhundertelangen Tradition der Unterdrückung und Ausgrenzung der indigenen Völker geprägt. Dies hat sich in einer Sprach- und Bildungspolitik niedergeschlagen, die erst sehr spät überhaupt die Existenz indigener Völker in der Verfassung anerkannt hat. In dieser Arbeit stehen die Vitalität des Maya sowie die Situation seiner Spreche...
Tense, aspect and discourse structure
Tense and aspect are crucial devices of sentence meaning. They interact with Aktionsart, but also with verb types and adverbs when indicating temporal relations and building temporal discourse structure. On the discourse level, they are co-determined by narrative functions, enhancing the complexity of their description. The volume depicts this vast field. It unites twelve contributions which elaborate on three thematic cores: 1) the context-sensitivity of tense and aspect and their relationships with neighbouring categories, 2) their interaction with adverbs, 3) their functioning in discourse. The volume advances our knowledge of the matters at hand in different respects. It discusses the on...
Fachbewusstsein der Romanistik
Die Beiträge des XXXII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums haben die Reflexion über den aktuellen Stand und die Perspektiven des Faches Romanistik an deutschsprachigen Universitäten zum Gegenstand. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden methodologische und forschungstheoretische Überlegungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem Fortbestehen der traditionsbewussten vergleichenden Vollromanistik, einer zunehmenden Aufspaltung in romanistische Einzelphilologien und der Anknüpfung an die allgemeine, germanistische und anglistische Linguistik. Eine Reihe von hochschuldidaktischen Impulsbeiträgen beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Lehrinhalte für das moderne romanistische Lehramtsstudium relevant sind. Plädoyers für die Orientierung an den romanistischen Kernkompetenzen der Interkulturalität, Mehrsprachigkeit, Interdisziplinarität und Verantwortungsethik runden den Band ab.
Spanische Grammatik im Fokus
Es gibt eine Reihe klassischer grammatischer Probleme des Spanischen, die jeder mit der Hispanistik Befasste kennen muss: z.B. die funktionale Abgrenzung indefinido/perfecto bzw. indefinido/imperfecto, die beiden Futurbildungen, die Interaktion starker und klitischer Personalpronomina etc. Aus Sicht der Sprachpraxis bilden sie den Kern der zu lernenden „Grammatik“, in der Linguistik bilden sie einen zentralen Gegenstand des Forschungsinteresses. Während nun die Erkenntnisse der modernen Linguistik unter den Experten in den letzten Jahrzehnten oft zu einem fassbar besseren Verständnis der Phänomene geführt haben, standen sie in einer Gesamtschau bisher noch nicht zur Verfügung. Das A...
