Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2014. — 314 p. — (Colloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht 50). — ISSN: 1437-7829, ISBN: 978-3-631-62926-0; E-ISBN: 978-3-653-03229-1. LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual and multicultural international research network on language acquisition and language education. The current research focus is on Identity Construction in Language Education. This...
21-22 mars 2007, au Centre de Presse d’El-Moudjahid, Alger. Alger: HCA, 2007 — 307 p. — (Tiẓrigin n Usqamu Unnig n Timmuzγa - Editions du Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité) — ISBN: 978-9947-865-01-9. Il n’est un secret pour personne que l’alphabet appelé communément «libyco-berbère», le Tifinagh, est le plus vieux système de transcription utilisé par les amazighs pour la...
Translated from Spanish by Francisca Rojas del Canto. — Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005 — xx + 345 p. — ISBN: 90-04-12835-2. English version of Adrados’ Historia de la lengua griega , Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1999. As the author writes: “My aim is to write a balanced history of the Greek language, leaning neither towards ancient nor medieval or Modern Greek. Also, I will explore...
Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2015. — 339 p. — (Studia Fennica Linguistica 18). — ISBN: 978-952-222-673-0; ISBN: 978-952-222-798-0; ISBN: 978-952-222-799-7. In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to...
Translated by Leonard Pearl, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2016. — 285 p. — (Studia Fennica Linguistica, 17). — ISBN: 978-952-222-387-6; 978-952-222-748-5; 978-952-222-751-5; 978-952-222-748-5. Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides...
Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2008. — 591 p. — (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 7). — ISBN: 978-88-8453-771-3; ISBN: 978-88-8453-770-6. This book contains the contributions of the Italian delegation to the XIV International Congress of Slavists (Ocrida [Ohrid], 10-16 September 2008). Divided into three macrosections (Philology and Linguistics; Literature, Culture and...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — xxiv + 656 p. — ISBN: 9789462982703, E-ISBN: 978-90-4853-274-2. This is the first volume of a series of books (the first two devoted to nouns and noun phrases) which aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language. The structure of the project, that is, the eight areas in which...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — viii + 597 p. —‒ ISBN: 9789462982710, E-ISBN: 978-90-4853-275-9. This is the second volume of a series of books (the first two devoted to nouns and noun phrases) which aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language. The structure of the project, that is, the eight areas in which...
Revista Española de Lingüística — 2006 — Vol. 35.2 — p. 551-579 — ISSN: 0210-1874. El burušaski [B], pronúnciese [burúšaski], se habla actualmente en los abruptos valles de los ríos Yasin y Hunza, al norte de la región pakistaní de Gilgit. Durante mucho tiempo se ha considerado una lengua aislada, es decir, sin parentesco genético reconocido, situándose por lo tanto al mismo...
Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 2007. — 59 p. — ISBN: 978-92-806-4231-5. Este estudio pretende reflejar el estado social y lingüístico de las lenguas de las nacionalidades indígenas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana hasta inicios del año 2007. En el año 2007, en la Amazonía ecuatoriana, se hablan las siguientes lenguas: a’ingae (cofán), paikoka (baikoka), waotededo, aentschicham,...
A la memoria de Alejandro Mendoza. — Quito, Ecuador: Instituto de Idiomas, Ciencias y Saberes Ancestrales (IICSAE), 2017 — 130 p. El Ecuador es un país intercultural y plurinacional conformado por diferentes nacionalidades y pueblos. La población indígena ecuatoriana posee sus propias lenguas y se encuentra asentada en las cuatro regiones del país. En la Región Costa se ubican las...
Köln: MAP, Modern Academic Publishing, Universität zu Köln, 2015 — xiv + 421 p. — ISBN: 978-3-946198-08-6, ISBN: 978-3-946198-09-3, ISBN: 978-3-946198-10-9, ISBN: 978-3-946198-11-6. During the sixteenth and seventeenth century large parts of Italy were under Spanish dominion, the consequence of which was a linguistic contact that lasted over 200 years. However, due to the...
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2016. — 401 p.
This book tells the story of the renaissance of the Kaurna language, the language of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains in South Australia, principally over the earliest period up until 2000, but with a summary and brief discussion of developments from 2000 until 2016. It chronicles and analyses the efforts of the Nunga...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. — 233 p. — (Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, Band 199). — ISBN: Print 9783525208687 — ISBN: E-Book 9783647208688. One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into...
Tlalpan, CDMX, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 2018. — xiv + 257 p. — (Serie de gramáticas de lenguas indígenas de México 15). Esta gramática presenta una descripción del chinanteco de Comaltepec. Primero se explica algo de la región donde se habla, la forma de presentación de los ejemplos y dos rasgos básicos que se encuentran en ellos. 1.1. La gente y la lengua...
Columbia, University of South Carolina, 1994. — 232 p.
This Ph.D. dissertation is a decriptive grammar of Shawnee, a Central Algonkian (Algonquian) language. At present Shawnee is spoken by only two hundred old people in Oklahoma, thus it is a seriously endangered language. Formerly, the Shawnee inhabited the Ohio Valley, i.e. Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia,...
Juiz de Fora [Minas Gerais, Brasil]: [Universidade de Juiz de Fora], 1999. — viii + 56 p. ‒ ISBN: 85-900758-1-8. Maxacalis ou Maxakali, também chamados Maxacaris, é a denominação de um grupo indígena que habita três porções de terras descontínuas nos municípios de Machacalis, Santa Helena de Minas, Bertópolis, Ladainha e Teófilo Otoni, no vale de Mucuri, no nordeste do estado...
Madrid: Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces, 2008. — 725 p. — ISBN13: 978-84-8004-713-5. This substantial volume treats the kinship anthropology. In the introduction the author deals with topics such as ethnocentrism and anthropology, culture and society, the kinhip for us (El parentesco para nosotros ), biology and culture, history of the discipline. Chapter 1 concerns...
Dissertação de Mestrado […] como requisito parcial para obtenção do título de Mestre em Lingüística. Campinas, SP: [Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem], 2000. — x + 144 p. Os índios Maxakalí habitam as cabeceiras do rio Itanhém, no nordeste de Minas Gerais, próximo à fronteira com o estado da Bahia, região do vale do Jequitinhonha. As aldeias...
In: Munske Horst Haider (ed.). Sterben die Dialekte aus? Vorträge am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Dialektforschung an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 22.10.-10.12.2007 . Erlangen-Nürnberg: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2008 — p. 1-29. Nach einem kurzen Abriss der Geschichte und Typologie des Friesischen wird die Situation des...
Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie (Dr. Phil) durch die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. 1. Gutachter: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Fritz Serzisko. — Düsseldorf: Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 2016. — x + 235 p. Zaza language, also called Zazaki, Kirmanjki and Dimli, is an...
Archivio Glottologico Italiano , Primo Volume. — Roma, Torino, Firenze, Ermanno Loescher, 1873. — LVI + 556 (612) p.
The first issue of the first linguistic journal published in Italy ( Archivio Glottologico Italiano ) was entirely devoted to the so called Ladin (later Rhaeto-Romance) dialects, i.e. Romansh, Dolomitic Ladin and Friulian dialects ( Saggi Ladini means ‘Ladin...
Inaugural-Dissertation in der Philosophischen Fakultät II (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften) der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Erlangen-Nürnberg: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2005 — vii + 227 p. Dans notre dissertation «La situation linguistique à l’île Maurice. Les développements récents à la lumière d’une enquête empirique»,...
Berlin: Language Science Press , 2017 — xvi, 487 p. — (Morphological Investigations 2). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-022-4. Diese Arbeit quantifiziert und analysiert die absolute Komplexität in der Nominalflexion von 17 alemannischen Dialekten, der deutschen Standardsprache sowie des Mittel- und Althochdeutschen. Als Datengrundlage dienen Ortsgrammatiken. Die theoretische Grundlage...
Colaboradores Manuel Chan Kꞌin, Antonio Chan Kꞌin. Tlalpan, CDMX, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 2018. — xvi + 510 p. — (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves” 51). La lengua maya lacandona es una de las muchas lenguas mayas que se hablan en los estados de Chiapas, Yucatán y Quintana Roo; en la República Mexicana; y en los países de...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 395 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 1). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-026-2; 978-3-96110-027-9. This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 359 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 2). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-028-6; 978-3-96110-029-3. This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using...
Belém: MPEG, 2015. — 393 p. — ISBN: 978-85-61377-80-9. O Fórum Landi tem a satisfação de apresentar ao público interessado Diccionario da lingua geral do Brasil que se falla em todas as villas, lugares e aldeas deste vastissimo Estado, 1771 , Cidade do Pará transcrito e estudado pela lingüista Cândida Barros e pelo bacharel em letras Antônio Lessa, cujo original se encontra na...
Préface de Nicholas Kasirer. — Ottawa, Ontario: Artois Presses Université ‒ Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2008. — xii + 502 p. — (Regards sur la traduction). — ISBN: 978-2-7603-0687-5. Cet ouvrage étudie les conditions d’émergence historiques et discursives du «droit de (la) traduction» et du droit qui l’administre: le droit d’auteur. Privilégiant une approche...
Ottawa, Ontario: University of Ottawa Press, 2006. — viii + 344 p. — (Perspectives on translation). — ISBN13: 978-0-7766-0624-8, ISBN10: 0-7766-0624-7. Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of...
Paris: Plon, 1921 (2010) ‒ 486 p. Electronic edition of the original book published in 1921 (a printed edition appeared in 2003 in Paris, Nouvelle Cité). It is considered a quite hagiographic biography (see, e.g., “René Bazin et Charles de Foucauld: un rendez-vous manqué?” by Dominique Casajus, in Impacts 34.2-4 (2000), pp. 149-163) even though written just a few years after the...
Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Arlington. Texas: The University of Texas at Arlington, 2011 / [Austin, Texas]: SIL International, 2013. — xv + 324 p. — (SIL e-Books 53). — ISBN: 978-1-55671-344-6. This dissertation describes the segments...
Copenhague, Danemark: Museum Tusculanum Press-University of Copenhagen (Etudes Romanes 57) — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-87-635-0874-2, ISSN: 1901-9092. This work is a contribution to the understanding of some diachronic and synchronic aspects of the grammatical relation Indirect Object hitherto not studied: (i) grammaticalization (from the 12th to the 21st century) of cross reference...
Edmonton, AB, Canada: University of Alberta, Department of Linguistics, 2004. — iii + 112 p. Upper Necaxa Totonac (a.k.a. Patla-Chicontla Totonac) is a member of the Totonac-Tepehua language family, an easily recognizable genetic grouping of languages with (to date) no demonstrable ties to any other Mesoamerican language. Relatively little work has been done on the family and the...
2ª edizione riveduta e migliorata. — Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente, 1942 — x+ 335 p. Mentre i dialetti berberi dell’Algeria, del Marocco e del Ṣáḥara son stati oggetto di ampie ricerche, e su parecchi di essi esistono importanti lavori, quello del Gebel Nefûsa, che pure tiene nella linguistica berbera uno dei posti più notevoli, è assai impefettamente conosciuto. Il nefûsi, al...
Revised edition. — Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press, The Australian National Press, 2007. — xviii + 385 p. — ISBN: 9781921313127. Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood’s Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the field. Now that work has been fully revised and includes a...
Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1971. — viii + 129 p. The studies which comprise this volume have arisen out of the work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and, with one exception, are written by members of that Institute. The majority of the languages dealt with are spoken, and have been studied, within the borders of Brazil, but...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 ‒ xxiv + 349 pp. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 8). ‒ ISBN: 978-0-19-870178-1 This volume is devoted to the diachronic study of Italian dialects and dedicated to Mair Parry, Professor Emerita of Bristol University (see the Preface by Anna Laura and Giulio Lepschy). The book consists in two parts: Verbal...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. — xii + 338 p. — (Amsterdam Academic Archive). — ISBN: 90-5356-859-X. In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — xxiv + 306 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–874526–6. This volume provides the first ever large-scale comparative treatment of there sentences (there copula NP), reporting the results of a survey of Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects of Italy. The volume comprises detailed discussions of focus structure, predication and argument realization, the...
Santa Ana, California: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1973. — vii + 105 p. Cuiva or Cuiba (Kuiva, Cuiba-Wámonae, Chiricoa, Hiwi, Maiben, Deja) is a central Guahiban (Guajiboan, Wahívoan, Guahiboan) language that is spoken by about 2,300 people in Colombia and additional 650 in Venezuela. In Colombia, Cuiva is spoken among those who live and who are born surrounding the...
[Dallas, Texas]: SIL International, 2013. — 395 p.
This reference grammar of Muna is a digital reprint of René van den Berg’s 1989 Ph.D. dissertation, defended at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands (this version was published in Dordrecht-Holland / Providence-U.S.A.: Foris Publications, 1989). Muna is an Austronesian language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, spoken by...
Con la colaboración de Luisa Maffi, Universidad de California en Berkeley. Athens, Georgia, USA: Laboratorio Etnolingüístico, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Georgia, 1997. — 184 p. Tzeltal or Ts'eltal or Tseltal (the last form is preferred by the indigenous writers) is a Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas, mostly in Los Altos, in the municipalities...
Madison, University of Wisconsin, 1971. — 585 p.
Tulu is a South Dravidian language which possesses some special peculiarities, mainly in its verbal system. The estimated number of speakers is 2 millions but maybe there are many more. Tulu is spoken in the south west part of the Indian state of Karnataka and in the Kasaragod district of Kerala and even though an unwritten...
Utmoor, Adilabad District, Andhra Pradesh, India, Integrated Tribal Development Agency, In Association with SIL International, Partners in Language Development, 2008 – 164 p.
The contents of this phrasebook in 5 languages is practically expressed in its long title. The western reader has to know simply that from top down the central column contains phrases and sentences in...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xii, 323 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 16). — ISBN: 978-3-946234-99-9; 978-3-96110-020-0. The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg...
Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2012. — 332 p. — ISBN: 978-3-205-78729-7. The present monograph focuses on the history of Italian literature and language in Austria's Habsburg past, covering the period from the Peace of Campoformido between Napoleon and Francis II in 1797 to the end of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918. The study reveals that Italian court poetry was amazingly...
Ianua, Revista Phlologica Romanica, 2, 1-47, 2001. — 47 p. This paper discusses the well known current opinion that Sardinian is the most archaic Romance language. The huge amount of data about Sardinian dialects accumulated in the last century seem to contradict, at least partially, the traditional assumption of the archaicity of the Sardinian linguistic space. Endogeneous...
Paris: Université Paris 8 - Saint Denis, 2003, 335 pp
This dissertation investigates the temporal systems of Standard Arabic, Syrian
Arabic and Modern Hebrew. The syntactic configuration put forward in this
thesis is based on the idea that tense and aspect are to be defined by the same
set of relations holding between time spans. The relations between each pair of
time...
Columbus, The Ohio State University Press (Theoretical Developments in Hispanic Linguistics [1]), 2017 ‒ vi + 236 p. ‒ ISBN: 9780814213261 (cloth; alk. paper), ISBN: 081421326X (cloth; alk. paper). Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and...