Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas
Author: Osamu Hieda,Christa König,Hiroshi Nakagawa
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027207692

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Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa, although some demonstrate, with examples from non-African linguistic data, including Amazonian and European languages, how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.

Linguistic Areas

Linguistic Areas
Author: April McMahon
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780230287617

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The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New case studies are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics

From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics
Author: Pieter Muysken
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027231001

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From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the Guapore-Mamore (Amazon) regions have never before been studied in an areal perspective, and yet other areas are involved in current debates. The insight has gained ground that languages owe many of their characteristics to the languages they are in contact with over time. Yet the nature of these areal influences remains a matter of debate. Furthermore, areas are often hard to define. Hence the title: a shift from linguistic areas as concrete and circumscribed objects to a new way of doing linguistics: areally. New findings include the observation that there may be many more language areas than previously recognized. The book is primarily directed at linguists working in descriptive, comparative, historical and typological linguistics. Since it covers linguistic areas from four continents, it will have a wide appeal.

Linguistic Areas

Linguistic Areas
Author: Yaron Matras,April McMahon,Nigel Vincent
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006
Genre: Comparative linguistics
ISBN: 1349545449

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The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New case studies are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.

Shared Grammaticalization

Shared Grammaticalization
Author: Martine Robbeets,Hubert Cuyckens
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027272140

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This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) — the languages in focus —as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.

Language Dispersal Diversification and Contact

Language Dispersal  Diversification  and Contact
Author: Mily Crevels,Pieter Muysken
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780198723813

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This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America.

Space in Language and Linguistics

Space in Language and Linguistics
Author: Peter Auer,Martin Hilpert,Anja Stukenbrock,Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110312027

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This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections. Specifically, the book aims to interconnect the following research areas: Language, space, and geography Grammar, space, and cognition Language and interactional spaces The contributions in this book cover geographical language variation within and across languages, language use in stationary and mobile interactional spaces, computer-mediated communication, and spatial reasoning across languages. This range of issues showcases the thematic and methodological breadth of research on language and space. In order to identify interconnections, the respective contributions are accompanied by commentaries that highlight common threads.

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Author: Heiko Narrog,Bernd Heine
Publsiher: Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198795841

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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these processes languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages, revealing a number of unique pathways as well as shared features.