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Record Nr.

UNINA9910984504703321

Titolo

Fragments of Languages : From ‘Restsprachen’ to Contemporary Endangered Languages / / edited by Daniele Baglioni, Luca Rigobianco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9789004694637

9004694633

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; ; 23

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Disciplina

418/.007/054

Soggetti

Language and languages

Multilingualism

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Rethinking Fragmentariness and Reconstruction: An Introduction -- Daniele Baglioni and Luca Rigobianco -- 2 Fragments of Greek in Babylonian -- Paola Corò -- 3 Fragments of ‘Solar Royal Compositions’ in the Pharaonic Tradition: ‘Unterweltsbücher’ and Other Related Texts in the Late Egyptian Versions -- Emanuele Ciampini -- 4 ‘Restsprachen’ in Ancient Anatolia: Direct and Indirect Sources, Transmission, and Reconstruction -- Stella Merlin, Valerio Pisaniello and Alfredo Rizza -- 5 Ancient Greek as a Fragmentary Language: What Is ‘Alexandrian Greek’? -- Federico Favi and Olga Tribulato -- 6 The Fragmentarily Attested Languages of Pre-Roman Italy: Interpreting, Reconstructing, Classifying -- Anna Marinetti and Patrizia Solinas -- 7 ‘Restsprachen’ and Language Contact: Latin, Etruscan, and the Sabellic Languages -- Luca Rigobianco -- 8 Reconstructing a Language from Fragmentary and Discontinuous Records: Andalusi Romance (So-Called ‘Mozarabic’) -- Marcello Barbato and Laura Minervini -- 9 Indirectly Attested Dalmatian Romance Varieties: Survey and Perspectives -- Nikola Vuletić -- 10 What Remains of an Atypical ‘Restsprache’: The



Mediterranean Lingua Franca -- Daniele Baglioni -- 11 ‘Restsprecher’ and Hypercharacterizing Informants between Veglia and Capraia -- Lorenzo Filipponio -- 12 On the Translation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Mòcheno: Linguistic Analysis and Connection to the Extinct Variety of Vignola -- Federica Cognola -- 13 Semi-Speakers and Data Reliability: The Case of the Cimbrian Variety of Foza -- Francesco Zuin -- 14 Notes on the Morphology and Syntax of a ‘Restsprache in Re’: Istro-Romanian -- Michele Loporcaro -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of languages. Furthermore, by adopting an innovative perspective, the book aims to test the application of the concept of fragmentation to languages which are not commonly included in the categories of ‘Corpussprache’, ‘Trümmersprache’, and ‘Restsprache’. This is the case with diachronic or diatopic varieties — of even well-known languages — which are only attested through a limited corpus of texts as well as with endangered languages. In this latter case, not only is the documentation fragmented, but the very linguistic competence of the speakers, due to the reduction of contexts of language use, interference phenomena with majority languages, and consequent presence of semi-speakers. See Less