Date: 10-Sep-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Ramat, Roma (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
Subtitle: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 88
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Paolo Ramat
Editor: Elisa Roma
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230986 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 162.00
Abstract:
This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic (historical) angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena. Therefore, methodological key words of this book are 'areal typology' and 'linguistic area'. The issues addressed cover such diverse aspects of language structure and change as verb morphology, relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases, conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal constructions, reduplication and early translations of the Gospels. These topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will interest researchers in typological, historical, functional and general linguistics.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Typology
Language Family(ies): Celtic
Germanic
Romance
Semitic
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