The acquisition of diminutives [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by Ineta Savickiene, Wolfgang U. Dressler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 352 p |
Disciplina | 401/.93 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SavickienėIneta
DresslerWolfgang U. <1939-> |
Collana | Language acquisition & language disorders |
Soggetto topico |
Language acquisition
Grammar, Comparative and general - Diminutives |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15501-6
9786612155017 90-272-9289-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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The acquisition of diminutives [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by Ineta Savickiene, Wolfgang U. Dressler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 352 p |
Disciplina | 401/.93 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SavickienėIneta
DresslerWolfgang U. <1939-> |
Collana | Language acquisition & language disorders |
Soggetto topico |
Language acquisition
Grammar, Comparative and general - Diminutives |
ISBN |
1-282-15501-6
9786612155017 90-272-9289-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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The acquisition of diminutives : a cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by Ineta Savickiene, Wolfgang U. Dressler |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 352 p |
Disciplina | 401/.93 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SavickieneIneta
DresslerWolfgang U. <1939-> |
Collana | Language acquisition & language disorders |
Soggetto topico |
Language acquisition
Grammar, Comparative and general - Diminutives |
ISBN |
1-282-15501-6
9786612155017 90-272-9289-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
The Acquisition of Diminutives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Form and meaning of diminutives in Lithuanian child language -- 1. Diminutives in Lithuanian -- 3. Data -- 4. The Development of diminutives in child language -- 5. Formal aspects of diminutives -- 6. Productivity and transparency of diminutives -- 7. Semantics of diminutives -- 8. Pragmatics of diminutives -- 9. Concluding remarks -- Diminutives in Russian at the early stagesof acquisition -- 1. Description of the adult target system -- 1.1 Diminutives from different parts of speech -- 1.2 Diminutives and hypocoristics -- 1.3 Diminutive grammar -- 1.4 Augmentatives and other related affixes -- 1.5 Diminutive use -- 2. Material -- 2.1 Previous studies on Russian child diminutives and augmentatives -- 2.2 The present study -- 2.3 Frequency of diminutives in the speech of children and caregivers -- 2.3.1 Quantitative characteristics of diminutives: the case of Varja -- 2.3.2 Quantitative characteristics of diminutives: the case of Filipp -- 2.3.3 Comparison of the two children -- 2.4. Semantic, pragmatic and structural functions of diminutives -- 2.4.1 Semantic and pragmatic role of diminutives (Varja) -- 2.4.2 The structural role of diminutives (Filipp) -- 2.4.3 Comparison of the two children -- 3. Discussion and conclusions -- The acquisition of diminutives in Croatian -- 1. A short description of the adult target system -- 1.1 Masculine -- 1.2 Feminine -- 1.3 Palatalized and nonpalatalized forms -- 1.4 Dialectal suffixes -- 1.5 Homophonous suffixes -- 1.6 Augmentatives -- 1.7 Adjective and verbal diminutives -- 1.8 Hypocoristics -- 2. The data -- 3. Antonija's acquisition of diminutives -- 3.1 The quantitative analysis -- 3.2 Diminutives - simplex contrasts -- 3.3 The distribution of the diminutive suffixes -- 3.4 Errors.
3.5 The meaning of Antonija's diminutives -- 4. Conclusion -- Diminutives in Greek child language -- 1. Introduction* -- 2. Diminutives, hypocoristics and augmentatives in MG -- 2.1 Morphology -- 2.1.1 Derivational aspects of diminutives -- 2.1.2 Hypocoristics and augmentatives -- 2.1.3 The inflection of diminutives -- 2.2 Semantic and pragmatic aspects of MG diminutives and hypocoristics -- 3. The data -- 4. The development of diminutives in child language -- 4.1 Quantitative aspects -- 4.2 Derivational development of diminutives -- 4.3 Inflectional development of diminutives -- 5. The semantics and pragmatics of affectivity: hypocoristics -- 5.1 Hypocoristics vs. diminutives in child speech and child-directed speech -- 5.2 Α suffix for creating one's personal affectionate world: the case of -ina -- 6. Conclusions: Form and function of diminutives in Greek as compared to other languages -- The role of diminutives in the acquisition of Italian morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of Italian diminutives -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Emergence and evolution of diminutives -- 5. Suffix allomorphy -- 6. Semantic and pragmatic aspects -- 7. Do diminutives facilitate the acquisition of inflection? -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- The acquisition of diminutives in Spanish -- A useful device -- 1. The diminutives in Spanish -- 2. Objectives -- 3. Description of the corpus -- 4. Quantitative Descriptive Overview -- 4.1 Child-directed speech -- 4.2 Distribution across Word classes -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. Qualitative analysis -- 5.1 The first contrasts -- 5.2 Morphophonology and selection of suffixes -- 5.3 Spontaneity and imitation in use of diminutives -- 5.4 Constructing a morphological system -- 6. Semantics and pragmatics of diminutives -- 6.1 The hipocoristics and diminutives: semantics and pragmatics -- 6.2 Nouns' semantic groups and diminutive. 7. Conclusions -- A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch1 -- 1. Adult diminutive system -- 2. Data -- 3. Development -- 3.1 Early emergence -- 3.2 Frequencies in child speech -- 3.3 Frequencies in cds -- 4. Form oppositions -- 5. Diminutive distribution -- 5.1 First emergence -- 5.2 The frequency of allomorphs -- 6. Comparing cds with ads -- 7. Conclusion -- Diminutives and Hypocoristics1 in Austrian German (AG)2 -- 1. German adult language -- 2. The acquisition data -- 3. Distribution of the different diminutive classes -- 4. Frequency ranking of diminutives -- 5. Time course -- 5.1 Jan -- 5.2 Katharina -- 6. Form oppositions and mini-paradigms -- 6.1 Jan's form oppositions -- 6.2 Katharina's form oppositions -- 6.3 Form oppositions in the input -- 7. Semantic groups of diminutives -- 8. Evidence for diminutive acquisition -- 8.1 Semantic and pragmatic evidence for diminutive acquisition in Jan's data -- 8.2 Semantic and pragmatic evidence for diminutive acquisition in Katharina's data -- 9. Comparison of Jan's and Katharina's diminutives -- 10. Conclusion -- Acquisition of diminutives in Hungarian1 -- 1. Description of the adult language -- 1.1 Diminutive formation in Hungarian -- 1.2 Declension of diminutives -- 1.3 Functional aspects of diminutives -- 2. Description of the databases -- 2.1 Panna's database -- 2.2 Miki's database -- 2.3 The applied "data purification" -- 3. Description of the findings on Miki and Panna -- 3.1 Overall view of the children's use of diminutives in the corpuses -- 3.1.1 Panna -- 3.1.2 Miki -- 3.1.3 Comparing Panna's and Miki's use of diminutives -- 3.2 Distribution of different diminutive classes -- 3.3 Evolution of the children's diminutive use in time -- 3.4 Emergence of diminutives and their simplex counterparts -- 3.5. Formal productivity. 3.6. Semantic and pragmatic aspects of diminutive acquisition -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- Diminutives in Finnish child-directed and child speech -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Types of diminutives in Finnish -- 1.2 Pejoratives and augmentatives -- 1.3 Hypocoristics -- 2. Formal aspects of diminutives in Finnish -- 2.1 The simplex bases -- 2.2 Formation by regular affixation -- 2.3 Formation of diminutives by stem modification -- 3. Semantics and pragmatics of diminutives -- 4. Morphophonological aspects of Finnish diminutives -- 5. Diminutives in the speech of two Finnish-speaking children -- 5.1 The material: classes of diminutives and the frequency of diminutives -- 5.2 Tuulikki: diminutives in diary material and recordings -- 5.2.1 The first diminutives and the trochaic bias -- 5.2.2 Tuulikki's own diminutive types in the diary material -- 5.2.3 Tuulikki's diminutives in the recordings -- 5.2.4 Summary of Tuulikki's diminutives -- 5.3 Tuomas: diminutives in diary material and recordings -- 6. Conclusion -- The (scarcity of) diminutivesin Turkish child language* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Diminutives and hypocoristics in Turkish grammar -- 2.1 -cik -- 2.2 Other diminutives (or other forms of -cik) -- 2.3 -Iş/-Oş and other hypocoristics -- 3. Method -- 4. Diminutives are rare in child speech -- 5. An error -- 6. Scarcity of diminutives in cds -- 7. Conclusion -- Acquiring diminutive structures and meanings in Hebrew -- An experimental study -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Borrowed Hebrew diminutives -- 1.2 Native Hebrew diminutives -- 1.2.1 Juvenile diminutives -- 1.2.2 Conventional-derivational diminutives -- Linear formation -- Reduplication -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Population -- 2.2 Research tasks and procedure -- 2.3 Analysis -- 2.3 Predictions -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Study tasks -- 3.2 Further analyses -- 3.2.1 Explanation: animacy. 3.2.2 Explanation: dimensions -- 3.2.2 Production: Lexicalization -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 The explanation task -- 4.2 The production task -- Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition -- 1. The pervasiveness of diminutives in cds -- 2. Diminutives aid word segmentation -- 3. Diminutives aid morphology acquisition -- 4. Why so many diminutives? Towards an explanation of the nature of cds -- Conclusions -- Subject Index -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. |
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The acquisition of Japanese as a second language / / edited by Kazue Kanno |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 495.6/8007 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KannoKazue |
Collana | Language acquisition & language disorders |
Soggetto topico |
Japanese language - Acquisition
Japanese language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers Second language acquisition |
ISBN |
1-282-16333-7
9786612163333 90-272-9913-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
THE ACQUISITION OF JAPANESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1. SLA Research and Japanese; CHAPTER 2. Implicit Negative Feedback; CHAPTER 3. Tasks and Learners' Output in Nonnative-Nonnative Interaction; CHAPTER 4. SPOT: A Test Measuring "Control" Exercised by Learners of Japanese; CHAPTER 5. Retesting a Universal: The Empty Category Principle and Learners of (Pseudo)Japanese; CHAPTER 6. L2 Acquisition of Japanese Unaccusative Verbs by Speakers of English and Chinese
CHAPTER 7. Who Knows What and Why? The Acquisition of Multiple Wh-Questions by Adult Learners of English and Japanese; CHAPTER 8. Gapping and Coordination in Second Language Acquisition; CHAPTER 9. Acquisition of Verb Gapping in Japanese by Mandarin and English Speakers; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Analogical modeling : an exemplar-based approach to language / / edited by Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, Dilworth B. Parkinson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (427 pages) |
Disciplina | 417/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SkousenRoyal
LonsdaleDeryle ParkinsonDilworth B. <1951-> |
Collana | Human cognitive processing |
Soggetto topico |
Analogy (Linguistics)
Psycholinguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-16154-7
9786612161544 90-272-9694-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Analogical Modeling -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: The basics of Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 1: An overview of Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 2: Issues in Analogical Modeling -- Part II: Psycholinguistic evidence for Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 3: Skousen's analogical approach as an exemplar-based model of categorization -- Part III: Applications to specific languages -- Chapter 4: Applying AnalogicalModeling to the German plural -- Chapter 5: Testing Analogical Modeling -- Part IV: Comparing Analogical Modeling with TiMBL -- Chapter 6: A comparison of two analogical models. Tilburg Memory-Based Learner versus Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 7: A comparison of Analogical Modeling to Memory-Based Language Processing -- Chapter 8: Analogical hierarchy Exemplar-based modeling of linkers in Dutch noun-noun compounds -- Part V: Extending Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 9: Expanding k-NN analogy with instance families -- Chapter 10: Version spaces, neural networks, and Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 11: Exemplar-driven analogy in Optimality Theory -- Chapter 12: The hope for analogous categories -- Part VI: Quantum computing and theexponential explosion -- Chapter 13: AnalogicalModeling and quantum computing -- Part VII: Appendix -- Chapter 14: Data files for Analogical Modeling -- Chapter 15: Running the Perl/C version of the Analogical Modeling program -- Chapter 16: Implementing the Analogical Modeling algorithm -- Index -- In the series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING (HCP). |
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Animacy and reference : a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics / / Mutsumi Yamamoto |
Autore | Yamamoto Mutsumi <1942-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Studies in language companion series |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Animacy
Reference (Linguistics) English language - Animacy Japanese language - Animacy English language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese Japanese language - Grammar, Comparative - English |
ISBN |
1-282-16299-3
9786612162992 90-272-9876-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ch. 1. What is 'Animacy'? -- Ch. 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? -- Ch. 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese -- Ch. 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy -- Ch. 5. Agency and Animacy -- Ch. 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy -- Appendix. Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus. Case Study 1. Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei ('One Million Yen Rice Cracker' or 'Three Million Yen'). Case Study 2. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Case Study 3. Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News. Case Study 4. Newsweek. Case Study 5. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan. Case Study 6. Scientific American. Case Study 7. 'Tetsuko no Heya'. Case Study 8. Viewpoints. |
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Yamamoto Mutsumi <1942-> | ||
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery |
Autore | Xiao Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 303 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 495.1/563 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McEneryTony <1964-> |
Collana | Studies in language companion series |
Soggetto topico | Chinese language - Aspect |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-16014-1
9786612160141 90-272-9501-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453594503321 |
Xiao Richard | ||
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery |
Autore | Xiao Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 303 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 495.1/563 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McEneryTony <1964-> |
Collana | Studies in language companion series |
Soggetto topico | Chinese language - Aspect |
ISBN |
1-282-16014-1
9786612160141 90-272-9501-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782316303321 |
Xiao Richard | ||
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Aspect in Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study / / Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery |
Autore | Xiao Richard |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 303 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 495.1/563 |
Altri autori (Persone) | McEneryTony <1964-> |
Collana | Studies in language companion series |
Soggetto topico | Chinese language - Aspect |
ISBN |
1-282-16014-1
9786612160141 90-272-9501-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Aspect in Mandarin Chinese -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Introduction -- Notes -- 2. Two-component aspect theory -- Notes -- 3. Situation aspect -- Notes -- 4. The perfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 5. The imperfective aspects in Chinese -- Notes -- 6. Aspect marking in English and Chinese -- Notes -- 7. From the study of aspect to contrastive grammar -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- The series Studies in Language Companion Series. |
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Xiao Richard | ||
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Aspects of multilingualism in European language history / / edited by Kurt Braunmuller, Gisella Ferraresi |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.44/6/094 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BraunmullerKurt <1948->
FerraresiGisella |
Collana | Hamburg studies on multilingualism |
Soggetto topico |
Multilingualism - Europe - History
Languages in contact - Europe - History |
ISBN |
1-282-16079-6
9786612160790 90-272-9601-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Multilingualism in European language history: The default case -- The contents of the contributions -- References -- Oceano vox: You never know where a ship comes from -- 1. Ships, trade and language -- 2. Multilingualism and the lexis of shipping -- 3. Multilingualism and ships' names: Some specific examples -- Notes -- References -- Language contact and bilingualism in Flensburg in the middle of the 19th century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The linguistic situation of Flensburg from the Middle Ages until the 19th century -- 3. The nationalist period of the 19th century -- 4. Language use in Flensburg in the middle of the 19th century -- 4.1. Case study 1: The family Christiansen-Fromm -- 4.2. Case study 2: The family Mechlenburg-v. Bentzen -- 5. Concluding remarks about monolingual and bilingual linguistic behaviour -- Unpublished data -- Notes -- References -- Written and spoken languages in Bergen in the Hansa era -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Norwegians and the Germans -- 2.1. The Hansa era in Bergen -- 2.2. Double diglossia? -- 2.3. A kind of bilingual community? -- 3. Grammatical changes -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The merger of the feminine and the masculine genders -- 3.3. Suffixed definite article on proper nouns -- 4. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Vyborg -- 1. Vyborg: A multilingual city -- 2. The Karelian border region -- 3. Viborg and the Kingdom of Sweden -- 4. The Viborg governorship -- 5. Viborg and the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland -- 6. Viborg and the Republic of Finland -- 7. Viborg Swedish -- 8. German loans in Viborg Swedish -- 9. Finnish loans in Viborg Swedish -- 10. Russian loans in Viborg Swedish -- 11. Ein echter Wiburger geht auf allen Vieren -- Note.
References -- Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lithuanian-Belarusian transition zone as a centre of structural convergences -- 3. The political and linguistic situation before the partitions (until end of 18th century) -- 4. The main ethno-and sociolinguistic changes after 1795 until WW I -- 4.1. Urban vs. rural varieties -- 4.2. Belarusian -- 4.3. Lithuanian -- 4.4. Diachronic changes of the borders between Lithuanian (East Baltic) and Belarusian (East Slavic) dialects -- 4.5. The appearance of Polish rural varieties in the Lithuanian-Belarusian borderlands -- 5. The inter-war period -- 6. Pieces of reconstruction on the basis of some most recent findings -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Appendices -- Abbreviations of languages (varieties) -- Maps -- Sources of maps -- Notes -- References -- Swedish and Swedish -- 1. Stratification in language: Education and condescension. Noreen's stylistic scale -- 2. Educated speech - and honourable: Noreen and Hof -- 3. Pioneers of grammar: The oldest explicit testimony of diglossia -- 4. The Reformation Bible: A deliberate mix of standards? -- 5. The Vadstena friars: Deliberate selection? -- 5.1. St. Birgitta's Revelations -- 5.2. The Pentateuch paraphrase -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Did Latin influence German word order? -- 1. Behaghel's theory -- 2. The presence and role of Latin in the German Middle Ages -- 3. Some notes on Latin word order -- 3.1. General remarks -- 3.2. Archaic and classical Latin -- 3.3. Word order in Latin main and subordinate clauses -- 3.4. Clause marking -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. Some notes on Early New High German word order -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The data against Latin influence -- 4.3. German syntax prior to standardization -- 4.4. The chancery language. 4.5. Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- From unity to diversity in Romance syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Unity: Clitic placement in medieval and early Renaissance Portuguese and Spanish -- 2.1. Unmarked main clauses: Enclisis and proclisis as variant patterns -- 2.2. Subordinate finite clauses and main clauses with proclisis triggers: Proclisis, interpolation, and OV order -- 2.3. A gradual change in clitic placement through the medieval period -- 3. The broken unity: Divergent outcomes of syntactic change -- 4. A diachronic generative syntax approach to clitic placement in Romance, with special reference to Portuguese and Spanish -- 4.1. Modern Romance vs. Old Romance -- 4.2. Change in clitic placement in Portuguese and Spanish: From unity to diversity -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Sardinian between maintenance and change -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- 2. Language contact through the ages -- 3. Sardinian as a Romance language -- 4. Aspects of language shift -- 5. Codeswitching as an indicator for maintenance and shift -- 5.1. Data and methodology -- 5.2. Quantitative results -- 5.3. Qualitative investigation -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Language contact and Maltese intonation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Maltese and its development in the context of multilingualism -- 2.1. The Maltese language and bilingualism in Malta -- 2.2. Geographical and historical context -- 2.3. Origins and development of Maltese -- 2.4. The rise of multilingualism -- 3. The segmental phonology of Maltese -- 3.1. Consonantal phonemes -- 3.2. Vowel phonemes -- 4. Lexical stress in Maltese -- 4.1. The case of antepenultimate stress -- 4.2. Lexical stress assignment in Maltese from a comparative perspective -- 5. The intonation of Maltese -- 5.1. Intonation in declaratives with late focus. 5.2. Intonation in yes-no questions with late focus -- 5.3. Intonation in WH-questions -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series HAMBURG STUDIES ON MULTILINGUALISM. |
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