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Merchants of Innovation
The Languages of Traders
Av Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1844 kr
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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or …
Scribes as Agents of Language Change
Av Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1791 kr
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The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, …
Lexical and Structural Etymology
Beyond Word Histories
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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Traditionally, etymology is concerned with the study of lexical items. However, in this book etymology is understood more generally as a research approach concerned with the question of how a particular word or structure came into existence. As a result, etymology can investigate the origin of …
Prepositional Clauses in Spanish
A Diachronic and Comparative Syntactic Study
Inbunden, 2013
2113 kr
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This book presents an analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses ( ) - complement and adverbial clauses. The goal is to examine the syntax and evolution of those clauses and their components in Spanish, contrasting them with other European languages.Prepositional argument and adjunct clauses are …
Spanish Clitics on the Move
Variation in Time and Space
Inbunden, 2017
1844 kr
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This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary agreement through clitics in non-standardized variation data from Limeño Spanish contact varieties (LSCV). As such it is concerned with diachronic …
Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change
The Development of Double Object Clitic Clusters from Medieval Florentine to Modern Italian
Inbunden, 2015
1844 kr
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This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter. Based on an exhaustive analysis of data collected from medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts we offer a novel analysis of the rise of the …
Grammatical Reconstruction
The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea
Av Don Daniels
Inbunden, 2020
1794 kr
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Celtic Hypothesis
Evaluating the Evidence of Brythonic Influence on Early English
Av Judith Owen
Inbunden, 2027
2197 kr
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Applying modern language contact theories to the linguistic evidence for Brythonic influence on English reveals problems with standard arguments supporting the Celtic Hypothesis. The hypothesis claims that early English was significantly influenced by the Brythonic language due to imperfect …
Diachronic Development of Modal Expressions in Chinese
From Late Archaic to Middle Chinese
Inbunden, 2024
2317 kr
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The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic diachronic developments of modals from lexical to functional categories as upward movement on a functional spine. The temporal framework of the study …
Bantoid and Bantu in Cameroon
An Historical Reassessment
Av Rebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1752 kr
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This volume focuses on Bantu and the other Bantoid languages of southern Cameroon. This region served as the cradle of the Bantu Expansion, where the Bantu populations separated from the other Bantoid groups. As a result, there are important historical questions about linguistic relationships …
Grammatical Reconstruction
The Sogeram Languages of New Guinea
Av Don Daniels
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology …
Oblique Subjects in Germanic
Their Status, History and Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2023
1657 kr
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Excavating Language
Linguistic Connections across Latin, Greek, and Modern European Languages
Av Bridget Drinka, Claus Ehrhardt
Inbunden, 2026
1787 kr
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The volume represents a cohesive yet multifaceted approach to themes, issues, and controversies concerning the role that Latin and Greek played in providing a template for the structural patterns and lexicon of the modern-day European languages. The authors engage in a careful examination of the …
Proto-Australian
Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language
Av Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer
Inbunden, 2024
2002 kr
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This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. Using the standard methodologies of historical linguistics, the authors show that nearly all Australian languages descend from PA. …
Beyond Recorded History
Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics
Av Marwan Kilani, Rasmus G. Bjørn
Inbunden, 2026
2155 kr
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Historical contact linguistics have a long tradition in the comparative linguistic science. As past human landscapes become increasingly illuminated through new methods and data from ancient genetics and archaeology, it is time to integrate the wealth of information from historical linguistics in a …
Spatial Diffusion of Linguistic Changes
New Methods and Theoretical Perspectives
Av Andrés Enrique-Arias, Carlota de Benito Moreno m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1787 kr
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The study of language variation from a geographical perspective has become the subject of renewed interest thanks to new theoretical, empirical and technological developments, such as advances in the study of language and dialect contact, the creation of new dialectal corpora or the availability of …
Oblique Subjects in Germanic
Their Status, History and Reconstruction
Häftad, 2025
339 kr
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East Baltic Subjunctive
A Contribution to the Historical Morphology of Infinitive-Based Verbal Formations
Av Simon Fries
Inbunden, 2025
1828 kr
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The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. Setting out with a general discussion of the historical relation between the two East Baltic languages, this book …
