When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory
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Author |
: Andrew Nevins |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2022-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316516379 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316516377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory by : Andrew Nevins
Illustrated with fascinating examples throughout, this book shows the transformative effect minoritized languages have on linguistic theory. It introduces key concepts in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.
Author |
: Andrew Nevins |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2022-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009034272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009034278 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory by : Andrew Nevins
For decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority of linguistic theory. However, minoritized languages can also provide fascinating contributions to our understanding of the human language faculty. This pioneering book explores the transformative effect minoritized languages have on mainstream linguistic theory, which, with their typically unusual syntactic, morphological and phonological properties, challenge and question frameworks that were developed largely to account for more widely-studied languages. The chapters address the four main pillars of linguistic theory – syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology – and provide plenty of case studies to show how minoritized language can disrupt assumptions, and lead to modifications of the theory itself. It is illustrated with examples from a range of languages, and is written in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.
Author |
: D. Gary Miller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556040775124 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Change and Linguistic Theory by : D. Gary Miller
This v. 1 book investigates a large range of changes and their motivations in all parts of the grammar and lexicon. The core argument is that, in the absence of a Grand Unification Theory in linguistics, a natural language changes. Changes occur in successive formal grammars.
Author |
: Muriel Norde |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027267474 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027267472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exaptation and Language Change by : Muriel Norde
This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic exaptation, its demarcation from other processes of linguistic change, and indeed the question of whether it is a useful concept in historical linguistics at all. The contributions in the present volume reflect these diverging points of view. Along with a comprehensive introduction, covering the history of the notion of exaptation from its conception in the field of biology to its adoption in linguistics, the book offers extensive discussion of the concept from various theoretical perspectives, detailed case studies as well as critical reviews of some stock examples. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics.
Author |
: Covadonga Lamar Prieto |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2024-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110799392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110799391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages by : Covadonga Lamar Prieto
The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their lives in less than optimal environments. Precisely for that reason, the theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge, creating a situation in which "language" is just one of the elements. This collection of essays proposes to recover the centrality of bilingualism, biculturalism and bidialectalism in the understanding of the different social, cultural and political processes of historical and contemporary language justice. It provides relevant theoretical and practical frameworks on the latest studies in linguistic justice as applied to minoritized languages and linguistic varieties such as Korean in Los Angeles, USA, Arabic in Spain, or Náhuat in Central America. Analyzing the acquisition, maintenance and attrition of these languages both in digital and physical environments, the volume contributes to expanding our knowledge of the sociolinguistic, educational, political and social realities that occur in minoritized languages.
Author |
: Jeremy King |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027264558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027264554 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change by : Jeremy King
This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The volume addresses, and challenges, current theoretical assumptions on the nature of language variation and contact-induced change through empirically-based linguistic research. The sustained contact between Spanish and other languages in different parts of the world has given rise to a wide number of changes in the language, which are driven by a concomitance of different linguistic and social processes. This collection of articles provides new insight into such phenomena across the Spanish-speaking world.
Author |
: Matt Coler |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2023-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783985540624 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3985540624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe by : Matt Coler
This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora. Most of the contributions are empirically-oriented studies presenting first-hand data based on original fieldwork, and a few focus directly on the methodological issues in such research. Owing to the multifaceted nature of contact and diaspora phenomena (e.g. the intrinsic transnational essence of contact and diaspora, and the associated interplay between majority and minoritized languages and multilingual practices in different contact settings, contact-induced language change, and issues relating to convergence) the disciplinary scope is broad, and includes ethnography, qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition. Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiöryś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil.
Author |
: Matt Coler |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2023-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961104048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961104042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe by : Matt Coler
This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora. Most of the contributions are empirically-oriented studies presenting first-hand data based on original fieldwork, and a few focus directly on the methodological issues in such research. Owing to the multifaceted nature of contact and diaspora phenomena (e.g. the intrinsic transnational essence of contact and diaspora, and the associated interplay between majority and minoritized languages and multilingual practices in different contact settings, contact-induced language change, and issues relating to convergence) the disciplinary scope is broad, and includes ethnography, qualitative and quantitative sociolinguistics, formal linguistics, descriptive linguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition. Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiöryś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil.
Author |
: Renée DePalma |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2015-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789463001878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9463001875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revitalizing Minority Voices by : Renée DePalma
Whose voices are taken into account in language policy and planning and whose have been ignored or more actively silenced? This is the central question addressed in this book. What are the political and social factors that have helped to create these historical exclusions, in terms of endangerment and loss of traditional languages? What are the global influences on the local landscape of languages and linguistic rights? What are the implications for cultural heritage and identity? In analyzing these questions and reporting on research in an array of countries, the chapter authors also suggest ways forward toward designing more inclusive policies and practices in educational contexts, whether in the context of obligatory schooling or in less formal educational contexts. UNESCO estimates that at least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Such statistics remind us that the linguistic diversity that characterizes the human condition is a fragile thing, and that certain languages need to be cultivated if they are to survive into the 21st century and beyond. The chapters in this volume originated as presentations at the XV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013). They represent several global regions, namely Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. They provide analyses of language policy and politics at the local, regional, national and transnational levels, grass-roots linguistic revitalization initiatives, and the attitudes of minority and majority speakers toward minoritized languages and cultures and towards intercultural and multilingual education programs./div
Author |
: Willem Fase |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027241016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027241015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages by : Willem Fase
The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.