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The Mixed Language Debate
Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted to the theoretical and empirical controversies that surround the study of Mixed Languages. Issues include definitions and prototypes, similarities and differences to other contact languages such as pidgins and creoles, the role of codeswitching in the emergence of Mixed Languages, the role of deliberate and conscious mixing, the question of the existence of a Mixed Language continuum, and the position of Mixed Languages in general models of language change and contact-induced change in particular. An introductory chapter surveys the current study of Mixed Languages. Contributors include leading historical linguists, contact linguists and typologists, among them Carol Myers-Scotton, Sarah Grey Thomason,William Croft, Thomas Stolz, Maarten Mous, Ad Backus, Evgeniy Golovko, Peter Bakker, Yaron Matras.
Oceanic Voices - European Quills
"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.
Hispanisation
Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume gives the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of Austronesia and the Americas. It is emphasized that one can draw far-reaching conclusions from the presented borrowing facts fo...
Changing Hearts
This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and ‘accommodated’ to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.
Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective
For the first time place names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names from personal names and common nouns. It is shown that the behavior of place names in morphology and syntax frequently disagrees with the rules established for other word classes independent of the language’s genetic affiliation, grammatical structure, and geographic location. Place names boast a grammar of their own. They are candidates for the status of a distinct word class. The special grammar of place names comes frequently to the fore in the domain of spatial relations. This fact is explained with reference to functional notions.
Art and War in the Pacific World
"Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history: its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting, and destruction of images, objects, buildings, and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change
Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-induced changes are defined as dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. A variety of explanations are identified and their relationships are analyzed. Only a multifaceted methodology enables this fine-grained approach to contact-induced change. A range of methodologies are proposed, but the chapters generally have their roots in a typological perspective. The contributors recognize the precautionary principle: for example, they emphasize the difficulty of studying languages that...
Join Us!
This publication documents the project ¡Únete! / Join us! created by Spanish artist Jordi Colomer (born 1962) for the Spanish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Colomer's project combines video, sculpture and architecture in an exploration of the relationship between individual and community.
La Santa Sede y la Agenda 2030. Celebración de la Festividad de San Pablo. Barcelona, 27 de enero de 2023. Universitat Abat Oliba
Bernadito C. Auza, nacido en Talibon (Filipinas), el 10 de junio de 1959. Recibió la ordenación sacerdotal el 29 de junio de 1985. Es doctor en Teología. Ingresó en el servicio diplomático de la Santa Sede el 1 de junio de 1990. Ha prestado sus servicios en las nunciaturas apostólicas de Madagascar, Bulgaria, Albania, en la sección para las Relaciones con los Estados de la secretaría de Estado y en la representación permanente de la Santa Sede ante la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) en Nueva York. Fue nombrado nuncio apostólico en Haití el 8 de mayo de 2008. Desde el 1 de julio de 2014 fue el observador permanente de la Santa Sede ante la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) en Nueva York y ante la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) desde el 16 de julio del mismo año. Nombrado nuncio apostólico en España y en el Principado de Andorra el 1 de octubre de 2019. Presentó las cartas credenciales ante S. M. el rey de España don Felipe VI el 16 de enero de 2020.
