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Lavidas Nikolaos |
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Internal and External Causes of Language Change : The Naxos Papers |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BergsAlexander |
van GelderenElly |
SitaridouIoanna |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On Internal vs. External Change -- 3 Historical Overview -- 4 Learnability and Other Parameters of the Different Types of Change -- 5 The Studies in the Volume -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part I: The Role of Typological Aspects and Structural Characteristics in Language Change -- 2: The Prehistory of Weak Adjectival Phrases in Old Norse -- 1 Weak Adjectival Inflection in Germanic -- 2 Weak Adjectival Inflection in Old Icelandic -- 2.1 From Proto-Norse to Old Norse -- 2.2 Adjectival Article and Adjectival Phrases -- 3 From Proto-Indo-European to (Proto-) Germanic -- 3.1 Adjectives in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) -- 3.2 Adjectives in (Proto-) Germanic -- 3.3 The Weak Inflection: N-Stems -- 4 Adjectives in North Germanic -- 4.1 Proto-Norse and Viking Period: Epithets and the Appositive Article -- 4.2 Viking Period: Phrasal Reanalysis -- 5 Open Issues -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Development of Absolute Participial Constructions in Greek -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background: Absolute Participial Constructions in Ancient Greek and Elsewhere -- 2.1 Absolute Constructions -- 2.2 Absolute Participial Constructions in Ancient Greek and Their Fate -- 3 Absolute Participial Structure -- 3.1 Participles as Mixed Verb-Adjective Projection -- 3.2 Participial |
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Structure as a Small Clause -- 3.3 Absolute Participial Constructions as Prepositional Structures -- A Formal Analysis of AG Prepositional Phrase Structure -- 3.4 Participial Structure and Genitive Absolute Construction -- 4 The Historical Development of the Absolute Constructions and the Role of the pcase Head -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4: Synecdochic Chains and Semantic Change: The Case of the Upper Limbs in Homeric Greek. |
1 Introduction: Synecdochic Chains and Upper Limbs -- 1.1 Research Questions and Aims -- 1.2 Semantic Change, Synecdochic Changes and Synecdochic Chains -- 1.3 The Synecdochic Chain 'Upper Limbs' -- 2 The Upper Limbs in Homer -- 2.1 An Overview on Frequency and Morphology -- 2.2 An Approach to the Semantic Roles of χείρ kheír, πῆχυς pêkhus and βραχίων brakhíōn -- 3 Determining Which Segment is Referred -- 3.1 Factors and Possible Classification -- 3.2 Analysis of χείρ kheír as Segmental Usage -- 3.3 Analysis of χείρ kheír as Suprasegmental or Holistic Usage -- 3.4 Analysis of πῆχυς pêkhus and βραχίων brakhíōn -- 4 Final Considerations -- 4.1 Need for Specificity and Semantic Relevance -- 4.2 Need for Specificity Across Languages: Two Practical Cases -- 4.3 Core Parts and Synecdochic Stray Field -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 5: The Development of the Copular Participial Periphrases in Ancient Greek: Evidence for Syntactic Change and Reconstruction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Preliminaries -- 2.1 Participles in IE -- 2.2 Problems of Categorization -- 2.3 Problems of Diachronic Analysis -- 3 Participial Periphrases in Greek: Emergence and Evolution -- 3.1 An Outline -- 3.2 Stages of Diachronic Development -- Archaic Greek: Perfect Restructuring and the Emergence of Periphrastic Constructions -- Classical Greek: The Rise of Constructional Gradience -- Post-Classical Greek: From Constructional Gradience to Grammaticalization -- 4 Verbalizing the Greek Periphrases: The Mechanism of Change and Its Implications -- 4.1 Analogy and Constructional Schemas -- 4.2 The Question of Semitic Interference -- 4.3 Periphrasis and Participle in PIE: Evidence for Reconstruction -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 6: Verb-Adjective Combinations in Late Modern English: Syntactic Reanalysis and Analogical Generalisation -- 1 Introduction. |
2 Theoretical Background -- 3 Aims -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 The Corpus -- 4.2 Data Retrieval and Analysis -- 5 Results and Discussion -- 5.1 Verb-Adjective Combinations during the Years 1750-1850 -- 5.2 Verb-Adjective Combinations between Syntactic Reanalysis and Analogy -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 7: The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Discourse Markers: Grammaticalization or Pragmaticalization? The Case of Romanian atunci "then" and apoi "afterwards" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Discourse Markers, Grammaticalization, and Pragmaticalization -- 3 The Romanian Marker Atunci "Then" -- 4 The Romanian Marker Apoi "Afterwards" -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Linguistic Diachronies and the Role of Language Contact -- 8: Long-Distance Metathesis of Liquids in Romance: A Property Theory Analysis of Diachronic Change -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-Distance Metathesis of Liquids in Romance -- 2.1 Metathesis Patterns in LDM Languages -- 2.2 Further Remarks on LDM -- 2.2.1 The Motivation of LDM -- 2.2.2 The Attested LDM Typology -- 3 Phonological Analysis of Attested Grammars -- 3.1 OT in a Nutshell -- 3.2 Con and Gen of the LDM Typology -- 3.3 The Phonological Computation -- 3.3.1 The Factorial Typology -- 3.3.2 The Constraint Hierarchies -- 4 Property Analysis -- 4.1 The Properties That Define the LDM Typology -- 4.2 Language Change in PT -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 9: Documenting Corfioto: Evidence for Contact-Induced Grammaticalization in the Romance Variety |
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of the Jewish Community of Corfu -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Classification, Vitality, and Present Data of Corfioto -- 1.1.1. Language Classification -- 1.1.2. Language Vitality Assessment -- 1.1.3. Documentation and Present Data -- 1.2 A Historical and Sociolinguistic Overview of the Jewish Community of Corfu. |
1.2.1. Contact Between Greek and Italo-Romance in Corfu -- 1.2.2. The Jewish Presence in Corfu -- 1.2.3. Written Language Sources of the Corfiot Jews -- 1.2.4. Previous Documentation of Oral Data -- 2 Two Contact-Induced Phenomena in Corfioto -- 2.1 Tense and Mood in Corfioto -- 2.2 Morphophonological Specialization in the Paradigm of the Verb 'Have' -- 2.3 Future Periphrasis -- 2.4 An Areal Linguistics Explanation to Contact-Induced Grammaticalization: Evidence from the Balkan Sprachbund -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- 10: Gender Hypercharacterization in Modern Judeo-Spanish Adjectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Diachronic Overview -- 3 Data -- 3.1 Kual and tal -- 3.2 Denominals in -al/-ar -- 3.3 Adjectives in -(i)or -- 4 Analysis -- 4.1 Internal Change -- 4.2 External Influence -- 4.3 Language Policy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 11: The RUKI Rule in Indo-Iranian and the Early Contacts with Uralic -- 1 Introduction -- 2 RUKI Rule and the Loanwords in Uralic -- 2.1 Indo-Iranian Loans into Uralic -- 2.2 The RUKI Rule -- 2.3 Earlier Views on RUKI and the Loanwords into Uralic -- 2.4 Indo-Iranian Loanwords in Uralic Showing RUKI -- Words Showing the Effects of the RUKI Rule (Uralic *š ← Indo-Iranian *š) -- Possible Counter-Examples -- Uralic *s Instead of *š -- Ambiguous Cases: Uralic Forms Point to Either *s or *š -- 3 Comparison with the Baltic and Balto-Slavic Loanwords in Finnic and Other Western Uralic Languages -- 4 The Substitution of Sibilants in Alleged Proto-Indo-European or North-West Indo-European Loans -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Index. |
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