LINGUIST List 17.2251

Sat Aug 05 2006

Books: Historical Linguistics/Lexicography/ Socioling: Varella

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Directory         1.    Philipp Waelle, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek: Varella

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Message 1: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek: Varella
Date: 03-Aug-2006
From: Philipp Waelle <p.waellepeterlang.com>
Subject: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek: Varella


Title: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek Series Title: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics Vol. 7 Published: 2006 Publisher: Peter Lang AG
                http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&VID=10526

Author: Stavroula Varella Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: U.K. £ 33
Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: U.S. $ 56.95
Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: Europe EURO 47.10 Comment: for Germany and Austria EURO 50.40 (incl. VAT)
Abstract:

Cypriot is unique among the Modern Greek dialects in possessing such avariegated vocabulary - testimony, indeed, to the chequered history of theisland. This book presents a thorough investigation of the foreigncomponent of the Cypriot lexis. It traces, firstly, the relevantsocio-cultural factors that gave rise to it. It presents, secondly, adetailed account of how words from sources as diverse as Romance, Arabic,Turkish and English became fully nativised and indistinguishable from thenative stock. A fresh case study of language contact and lexical borrowing,it addresses such issues as the extent of lexical borrowing, the types ofvocabulary borrowed, the relationship between the social integration andthe structural adaptation of loans, and the degree and predictability ofthe phonological, morphological and even semantic modification affectingforeign words.

Contents:

Cultural/linguistic contacts in Cyprus and lexical borrowingLoanwords: systematic correspondences and etymologyLoanword phonology and morphologyCultural borrowing and semantic adoptionSemantic shifts in a cross-linguistic context.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Lexicography                             Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)
Written In: English (eng )

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