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Bibliographie Linguistique de L'annee 1999
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
Gramática histórica galega II - Lexicografía
O lector ten nas súas mans a segunda parte da Gramática Histórica Galega do Prof. Manuel Ferreiro, dedicada, nesta ocasión, ao estudo do devir léxico-semático do noso idioma, que continúa e complementa a primeira (xa na 4a edición), centrada na Fonética e na Morfosintaxe. Co presente volume cérrase unha viaxe lingüística a través dos séculos, que se converterá, máis unha vez, nun referente inevitábel e nun instrumento fundamental para toda aquela persoa que pretenda coñecer en profundidade a evolución lingüística do idioma, o primeiro sinal de identidade da nación galega. É para Laiovento unha satisfacción a publicación dun traballo que, con todo o rigor filolóxico e con toda a paixón humana, permite coñecer o proceso de constitución do léxico galego (tanto o común como o toponímico e o antroponímico), descubrir os mecanismos de ampliación léxica que ao longo dos séculos permitiron multiplicar as súas palabras e significados, e, por último, acompañar a plural apropiación de moi diversos elementos lingüísticos, inicialmente extraños á nosa lingua.
Origins of a Creole
This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.
Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics
This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory. In the 20 overview chapters, internationally renowned experts give detailed yet concise information on a wide range of language-internal as well as external synchronic and diachronic topics. Most of this information is the fruit of large-scale language documentation and description projects, such as the project on the linguistic norm of educated speakers (NURC), the project “Grammar of spok...
To A Nação, with Love: The Politics of Language through Angolan Poetry
This book serves as a study of poets' reflections on the use of the Portuguese language as a tool for the nation building project of Angola during and after the war of independence. The writers studied fall into two categories: those of a first phase, in the context of the war of independence, during which time poets often focused on linguistic unity as a reflection of the nation's plurality through the inscribing of notions of singular identity simultaneous to the incorporation of elements of linguistic plurality; and those of the second phase, within the context of the post-war and ensuing civil strife which, if taken as a more or less continuous Civil War, lasted from 1975 to 2002, and during which writers would use techniques seen in many postmodern poets to deconstruct the utopian discourse of poets from the previous generation.The essay elucidates existing arguments regarding political and social movement as well as to less-recognized arguments regarding literary evolution in Angola during this period.
The Defective Copy Theory of Movement
Within the framework of Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs. The book explores the Copy Theory of Movement, discussing a defective copy construction involving wh-movement of PPs which poses interesting theoretical questions as to how the defective copy is to be generated and form a chain with the relevant displaced wh-constituent. It is also shown that the defective copy strategy ([wh[PL] el[3SG]]) is distinct from resumption ([wh[PL] es[3PL]]) due to some properties of PPs in Cape Verdean Creole and to the nature of the pronominal element that occurs at the foot of the wh-chain. This book relates well with those on Cape Verdean Creole and highlights the need to look more closely at deeper syntactic issues in more creole languages, inspiring further comparative work amongst creole linguists.
Complex Processes in New Languages
In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating complex structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the reduction or increase of complexity in language change and creolization. This book focuses on the latter issue, but the conclusions presented here hold of typological complexity in general. The chapters in this book show that the notion of complexity as conceived of in linguistics mainly centres on the outer manifestations of language (e.g., numbers of affixes). This exercise is useful in establishing the patterning of languages in terms of their degrees of analyticity or synthesis, but it fails to address the properties of the inner rules of these grammars, and how these relate to the computational system that governs the human language capacity. Put simply, issues of complexity should not be equated with the complexity observed in surface patterns of grammars alone."
Gramática histórica galega I
Unha obra que cobre un espazo no panorama editorial galego que desde hai xa ben tempo debía estar ocupado. pola importancia de que se dota a historia da evolución do noso principal sinal de identidade como galegos, polo rigor con que está elaborada esta viaxe lingüística a través dos séculos, polo seu carácter case inagural e mais pola ambiciosa intención globalizadora que rexe o traballo, o presente manual de Gramática Histórica Galega constituirá, a partir de hoxe, unha referencia imprescindíbel e unha ferramenta necesaria para calquera persoa que se quixer aproximar á nosa lingua.
Gramática histórica galega I. Fonética e Morfosintaxe (5a Ed.)
Unha obra que cobre un espazo no panorama editorial galego que desde hai xa ben tempo debía estar ocupado. pola importancia de que se dota a historia da evolución do noso principal sinal de identidade como galegos, polo rigor con que está elaborada esta viaxe lingüística a través dos séculos, polo seu carácter case inagural e mais pola ambiciosa intención globalizadora que rexe o traballo, o presente manual de Gramática Histórica Galega constituirá, a partir de hoxe, unha referencia imprescindíbel e unha ferramenta necesaria para calquera persoa que se quixer aproximar á nosa lingua.
A Companion to Galician Culture
"Of all the differentiated regions comprising contemporary Spain, Galicia is possibly the most deeply marked by political, economic and cultural inequities throughout the centuries. Processes of national construction in the region have been patchily successful. However, Galicia's cultural distinctness is easily recognizable to the observer, from the language spoken in the region to the specific forms of the Galician built landscape, with its mixture of indigenous, imported and hybrid elements. The present volume offers English-language readers an in-depth introduction to the integral aspects of Galician cultural history, from pre-historical times to the present day. Whilst attention is given to the traditional areas of medieval culture, language, contemporary history and politics, the book also privileges compelling contemporary perspectives on cinema, architecture, the city of Santiago de Compostela and the urban qualities of Galician culture today." -- Provided by the publisher.
