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The prodigal tongue : dispatches from the future of English
Mark Abley, author of 'Spoken Here', presents an exploration of the way that the English language as it is spoken around the world is likely to transform and be transformed during the 21st century.
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Evolutionary Phonology
Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.
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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
This book essentially argues for the importance of word frequency as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. In other words, the roles of words and other linguistic phenomena such as morphology, phonology, and syntax are highly influenced by low, medium, or high frequency with which they occur. The book includes three decades of influential research in one thematic source. It provides an introductory overview that traces the development of thinking on this important subject. The discussion covers word frequency in lexical diffusion, morphophonemics, lexical and morphological conditioning of alternations using Spanish verbs as example, rules and schemas in the development and use of the English past tense, morphological classes as natural categories, regular morphology and lexicon, sequentiality as the basis of constituent structure, and mechanisms of change in grammaticization.
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The decline of the French passé simple
This book discusses the features of the alleged disappearance and uses over time of the passé simple, while testing its vitality against contemporary corpora. Now evolving as a stylistic marker, that tense has not yet been superseded.
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Amisches und mennonitisches Shwitzer im Vergleich
Die zwei Varietäten von Shwitzer, amisches Shwitzer und mennonitisches Shwitzer, gehen beide auf das Berndeutsche zurück. Obwohl beide Sprechergruppen, Amische und Mennoniten, seit der Immigration ihrer Vorfahren nebeneinander leben, haben sich die Sprachen äusserst unterschiedlich entwickelt. Das mennonitische Shwitzer hat sich kaum vom Berndeutschen wegentwickelt. Das amische Shwitzer hat hingegen das berndeutsche Lexikon bewahrt, zeigt in seiner Grammatik aber starken kontaktinduzierten Sprachwandel ausgelöst durch den Kontakt mit dem Pennsylvaniadeutschen.
Shwitzer, a lesser-known variety of German, comes in two varieties: one spoken by Old Order Amish, one by Mennonites. Even though both groups of speakers have been living side by side for more than 150 years, the two varieties have developed maximally diverse. Mennonite Shwitzer has preserved the Bernese German grammar and lexicon, while Amish Shwitzer still has a largely Bernese German lexicon. Its grammar, however, shows massive contact-induced change influenced by Pennsylvania German.
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Amisches und mennonitisches Shwitzer im Vergleich
Die zwei Varietäten von Shwitzer, amisches Shwitzer und mennonitisches Shwitzer, gehen beide auf das Berndeutsche zurück. Obwohl beide Sprechergruppen, Amische und Mennoniten, seit der Immigration ihrer Vorfahren nebeneinander leben, haben sich die Sprachen äusserst unterschiedlich entwickelt. Das mennonitische Shwitzer hat sich kaum vom Berndeutschen wegentwickelt. Das amische Shwitzer hat hingegen das berndeutsche Lexikon bewahrt, zeigt in seiner Grammatik aber starken kontaktinduzierten Sprachwandel ausgelöst durch den Kontakt mit dem Pennsylvaniadeutschen.
Shwitzer, a lesser-known variety of German, comes in two varieties: one spoken by Old Order Amish, one by Mennonites. Even though both groups of speakers have been living side by side for more than 150 years, the two varieties have developed maximally diverse. Mennonite Shwitzer has preserved the Bernese German grammar and lexicon, while Amish Shwitzer still has a largely Bernese German lexicon. Its grammar, however, shows massive contact-induced change influenced by Pennsylvania German.
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Eine linguistische Annäherung an das Thema Sprachverfall. Mit Berücksichtigung der Frage, ob Sprachwandel Gegenstand des DaF-Unterrichts sein soll
The concept of language decadence can be interpreted in different ways: as mixing of languages, language deterioration, or language loss. As linguists are aware, all these manifestations commonly attributed to so-called language decadence are actually phenomena of language change. The debate on language decadence, while fascinating to publik opinion, is based upon an abstract inconsistent view of language as a perfect, immutable instrument, to be used according to precise rules. Nevertheless, it is unavoidable in foreign language instruction to refer to rules and to a manageable model of standard language. The transmission of awareness about language change can avoid the creation of myths about language decadence. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change
In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the recent trend away from critiques of hegemonic practices and towards the description of alternative and minority practices that has been labelled Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA). Through an in-depth case study of intercultural development discourse, the book goes beyond the top-down model of power in CDA and the oppositional approach of PDA to develop a model of power in language as multifaceted and potentially collaborative. This model is used to analyse the particular circumstances of the case study, but is primarily presented as a framework for practical applied linguistic contributions within a wide range of sociocultural contexts. Drawing on social and linguistic theory and methods from a range of functional and applied approaches to language, the book explores the connections between language form and social function, the contextual constraints on discursive action and the potential for the renegotiation of existing discourses and social practices.
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Contact des langues et plurilinguisme dans la Romania
Long description: Les situations hétérogènes de contact linguistique et le plurilinguisme présentent toujours un défi épistémologique pour la recherche. Le type de contact linguistique, les langues impliquées, les enjeux sociaux d’une société et ses groupes sociaux différents ainsi que la culture du plurilinguisme sont des facteurs importants qui en font un objet de recherche très complexe et difficilement généralisable. Ce volume contient des études qui essaient d’apprivoiser cette complexité en analysant des situations différentes de contact linguistique et de plurilinguisme en Amérique et en Europe pour en montrer les enjeux et proposer de nouvelles théories et méthodes multidisciplinaires pour les appréhender. Le volume contient également des discussions sur les nouvelles possibilités de recueillir des données linguistiques relevant des usages stigmatisés ou des sources nouvelles pour analyser aussi bien l’usage linguistique que les évaluations que les gens en font ainsi que les métadiscours qui circulent sur ces usages.
Biographical note: Benjamin Peter est titulaire d’un doctorat sur la construction discursive de l’andalou et habilitant dans le domaine des temps verbaux dans les variétés du français parlées en Amérique. Il travaille actuellement à l’Université de Kiel.
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