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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie

Edited by: Éva Buchi, Claudia Polzin-Haumann, Elton Prifti and Wolfgang Schweickard

ISSN: 0084-5396

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The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

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Éva Buchi, ATILF, Nancy, France; Claudia Polzin-Haumann, Elton Prifti and Wolfgang Schweickard, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

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Spanish in Africa/Africa in Spanish

Current challenges and methodologies in Afro-Hispanic linguistics

Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli, Reynaldo Romero

Volume 489 in this series

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Since the 1960s, Afro-Hispanic linguistics has produced vital knowledge at the intersection of African diaspora studies and Spanish sociolinguistics – yet many misconceptions persist in research literature. To challenge those biased assumptions, the contributions gathered in this volume present current research on Afro-Hispanic varieties from both sides of the Atlantic (Equatorial Guinean Spanish, Palenquero, Afro-Puerto Rican Spanish from Loíza, San Andrean [Colombia] Raizal Spanish) and address the influence of Portuguese-based Creoles on Afro-Hispanic varieties during the early colonial era.

Conceived in cooperation with students, activists, social workers, civil servants, and researchers who work with Afro-Hispanic languages and communities (as well as with other languages and communities who suffer linguistic, social, and racial marginalization), this volume adopts a social justice framework that seeks tangible, material, and quality-of-life improvements for the speech communities in which it investigates. It includes best practices for empirical research, recruitment of respondents and informants, fieldwork and archival work, and pedagogical and community-facing applications of research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111340647
ISBN:: 9783111340647
ISBN:: 9783111340692
ISBN:: 9783111340678
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Pidgins and Creoles
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Diskurstraditionen der Argumentation

Eine Korpusanalyse von Bittschriften der Serie "Esclavos" der Corte Suprema von Quito (1702–1849)

Jennifer Gabel de Aguirre

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The study deals with petitions from the Esclavos series of the Ecuadorian National Archives from court cases of the Corte Suprema de Quito in the period 1702–1849, in which enslaved people were involved directly. The focus is on the study of argumentative strategies as discourse traditions: including topoi, linguistic means of constructing ethos and pathos, and linguistic marking of argumentative functions and structures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111058894
ISBN:: 9783111058894
ISBN:: 9783111059693
ISBN:: 9783111058498
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Macrosintaxis del español

Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez

Volume 488 in this series

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This work offers a substantial advance in the study of the macrosyntax of Spanish. Situated in the field of discourse realization, it provides theoretical foundations and a precise methodology. It describes the units of discourse, the new categories that must be taken into account to describe speech (operators, connectors and constructions), and integrates the diachronic aspect, in a dynamic vision of the language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111315454
ISBN:: 9783111315454
ISBN:: 9783111315799
ISBN:: 9783111314853
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Romance motion verbs in language change

Grammar, lexicon, discourse

Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger

Volume 487 in this series

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Cross-linguistically, motion verbs are frequently involved in language change and feature a wide array of motion-related constructions. The aim of this volume is to grasp more completely the typological characteristics and the developmental potential of motion verbs and to acknowledge the formal and functional diversity of motion-related constructions in Romance languages. To this end, the contributions in this collection provide synchronic and diachronic as well as typologically oriented studies that focus on motion verbs and single- and multi-verb constructions that have received scant attention to date. These include verbal periphrases, (pseudo-/semi-)copula and pseudo-coordinated constructions in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French and French-based Creoles. In comparison to previous research on Romance languages, the present volume also adopts a broader perspective on language change, taking into account not only grammaticalization processes but also discursive, lexical and pragmatic phenomena such as the development of discursive, quotative or mirative functions. The studies build on functional, usage-based and constructionist models of language change and rely on corpus-based as well as experimental empirical approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111247403
ISBN:: 9783111247403
ISBN:: 9783111248141
ISBN:: 9783111248998
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
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Diacronía de las perífrasis fasales

Origen, evolución y vigencia

Mar Garachana Camarero, Esther Artigas Álvarez

Volume 486 in this series

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The book provides an overview of the evolution of phasal periphrases from Latin to Spanish, from the perspective of diachronic construction grammar, grammaticalization and discourse traditions. It also addresses the periphrastic character of phasal structures, as well as aspects that have been marginalized to date (chains of periphrases, possibility of double passivization or dialectal variation).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111340968
ISBN:: 9783111340968
ISBN:: 9783111340869
ISBN:: 9783111341057
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Historische lexikalische Semantik und Linked Data

Modellierung von Ressourcen der mittelalterlichen Galloromania für das Semantic Web

Sabine Tittel

Volume 485 in this series

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At the intersection between the semantic web and historical linguistics, this study focuses on lexical semantics to examine the potential modeling of resources from Old and Middle French as well as Old Gascon as linked data. The objective is to establish structural and conceptional data interoperability across resources and to provide access to data across different disciplines, domains, and languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111326481
ISBN:: 9783111326481
ISBN:: 9783111327525
ISBN:: 9783111326344
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
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Convergenze plurilingui

Incroci e convivenze linguistiche tra Medioevo e prima età moderna

Alice Martignoni, Franco Pierno

Volume 484 in this series

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The concepts of "plurilinguism" and "multilingualism" are normally used in studies dealing with current linguistic realities observed in communities of speakers. This volume collects eleven essays which apply these categories to historical settings, spanning a period from the Middle Ages until the late Renaissance. It demonstrates that contacts between languages have, for centuries, characterized and shaped the linguistic realities of Europe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111318356
ISBN:: 9783111318356
ISBN:: 9783111318554
ISBN:: 9783111318042
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Vulnus amoris

The Transformations of “Love’s Wound” in Medieval Romance Literatures

Gaia Gubbini, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Volume 483 in this series

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The concept of love’s wound has haunted European culture for centuries. This book investigates this fundamental concept in Medieval French, Occitan, and Italian literature – with the purpose of tracing its transformation through a selection of medieval literary masterpieces, sacred and profane. The imagery of love’s wound is analysed with multiple approaches, considering also representations of the theme in manuscript illuminations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110721737
ISBN:: 9783110721737
ISBN:: 9783110721645
ISBN:: 9783110721805
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
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Book 2023

Mehrsprachigkeit und Identitätsbildung im Großherzogtum Luxemburg

Eine sprachbiografische und diskurslinguistische Untersuchung im superdiversen Kontext

Caroline Pinter

Volume 482 in this series

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Based on qualitative research, this book addresses the tension between language and identity in the context of the complex multilingual situation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The connection between multilingualism and identity is explored both from the individual perspective, through language biographical interviews, and from the societal perspective, through press texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111117379
ISBN:: 9783111117379
ISBN:: 9783111118826
ISBN:: 9783111114484
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: French
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The MIHI EST construction

An instance of non-canonical subject marking in Romanian

Mihaela Ilioaia

Volume 481 in this series

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This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries.

The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111055466
ISBN:: 9783111055466
ISBN:: 9783111055626
ISBN:: 9783111055022
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
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Phraséologie et terminologie

Paolo Frassi

Volume 480 in this series

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The contributions gathered in this volume are dedicated to the identification, terminographical description and representation of polylexemic terminological units (phrasemes, in particular phrases and collocations) used in a variety of specialty languages (marketing, chemistry, law, international trade, medicine).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749854
ISBN:: 9783110749854
ISBN:: 9783110749892
ISBN:: 9783110749595
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
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Book 2023

Silbentyp und Wortschatz im diachronen Sprachkontakt

Zentrum und Peripherie in phonotaktischen Systemen und im Lexikon romanischer Sprachen

Matthias Heinz, Förderverein zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

Volume 479 in this series

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Syllable types and lexicon are subject to diachronic language contact influences. Phonotactics and loanword vocabulary in Romance languages tend toward syllable simplification, but complex structures also persist, especially in learned loanwords. Furthermore, complex syllables can result from the tendency to erase unstressed vowels. In a center-periphery arrangement of the system, a phonotactic typology of the Romance languages is thus developed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110648423
ISBN:: 9783110648423
ISBN:: 9783110648577
ISBN:: 9783110585445
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
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Textkomplexität und Textverständlichkeit

Studien zur Komplexität spanischer Prosatexte

Katharina Dziuk Lameira

Volume 478 in this series

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The work combines quantitative and qualitative methods for measuring text complexity using Spanish prose texts as an example. The possibilities and limitations of operationalizing semantic text complexity are demonstrated using the example of metaphor. Finally, a questionnaire study examines the extent to which the identified linguistic complexity profiles are related to empirically obtained data on the comprehensibility of the texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111034829
ISBN:: 9783111034829
ISBN:: 9783111035079
ISBN:: 9783111034638
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Second Language Acquisition
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance

Assimilatory, dissimilatory and diphthongization processes

Daniel Recasens

Volume 477 in this series

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The book investigates historical patterns of vowel diphthongization, assimilation and dissimilation induced by consonants – mostly (alveolo)palatals – in Romance. Compiling data from dialectal descriptions, old documentary sources and experimental phonetic studies, it explains why certain vowels undergo raising assimilation before (alveolo)palatal consonants more than others. It also suggests that in French, Francoprovençal, Occitan, Rhaetoromance and dialects from northern Italy, mid low vowel diphthongization before (alveolo)palatal consonants started out with the formation of non-canonical falling diphthongs through off-glide insertion, from which rising diphthongs could emerge at a later date (e.g., Upper Engadinian OCTO ‘eight’ > [ɔc] > [ɔ(ə̯)c] > [wac]). Both diphthongal types, rather than canonical falling diphthongs with a palatal off-glide, could also give rise to high vowels (dialectal French [li] < LECTU, [fuj] < FOLIA). This same Gallo-Romance diphthongization process operated in Catalan ([ʎit], [ˈfuʎə]). In Spanish, on the other hand, mid low vowels followed by highly constrained (alveolo)palatals became too close to undergo the diphthongization process ([ˈletʃo], [ˈoxa]).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110990805
ISBN:: 9783110990805
ISBN:: 9783110990942
ISBN:: 9783111000459
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
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Testi trevigiani della prima metà del Trecento

Edizione, commento linguistico e glossario

Francesca Panontin

Volume 476 in this series

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This volume describes the scripta used in Treviso in the first half of the fourteenth century, based on the study of different practical texts. The analysis of an accounting notebook allows for the first time to describe the more municipal variety of the Treviso dialect, while the edition of a handful of short legal texts helps reconstruct the characteristics of a vernacular influenced by Venetian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981391
ISBN:: 9783110981391
ISBN:: 9783110795677
ISBN:: 9783110981414
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Diskursive Kämpfe

Agonalität im politischen Sprachgebrauch am Beispiel des französischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampfs 2017

Thea Göhring

Volume 475 in this series

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The subject of the volume is the negotiation of competing claims to validity and truth of statements in discourse with a focus on the concept of "discursive combat." Based on a specially developed theoretical and methodological approach to the study of agonal discourses, linguistic manifestations of agonality are recorded and made visible using the example of the 2017 French presidential election campaign.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981537
ISBN:: 9783110981537
ISBN:: 9783110981766
ISBN:: 9783110995459
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
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Saggio di glossario dialettale diacronico (A–B) del «Baldus» di Teofilo Folengo

Federico Baricci

Volume 474 in this series

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This volume provides a glossary (A–B) of the northern Italian dialectal lexicon found in the four redactions of Teofilo Folengo’s Baldus (1517–1544), the most important literary work written in macaronic Latin. The glossary is preceded by an introduction providing detailed information on Folengo’s language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110697872
ISBN:: 9783110697872
ISBN:: 9783110697704
ISBN:: 9783110697957
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
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Book 2023

French theories on text and discourse

Driss Ablali, Guy Achard-Bayle

Volume 473 in this series

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It could be alleged that present-day French linguistics is characterized by a specific connection between the epistemology of text and that of discourse. The contributions gathered in this volume aim to reconsider this link – or dichotomy? – in light of the latest research developments. They are organized in three parts: the first explores the text-discourse connection, while the second and third tackle the epistemologies of text and discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794434
ISBN:: 9783110794434
ISBN:: 9783110794335
ISBN:: 9783110794496
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Structuralism
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
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The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages

An empirical analysis of nominal aspectuality with focus on French

Désirée Kleineberg

Volume 472 in this series

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While previous research on collective nouns in Romance languages mostly adopts a semasiological and theoretical perspective focusing mainly on one single language, the present study takes an onomasiological and comparative approach which is strongly based on empirical evidence.

Against this background and in analogy to the verbal domain, the work elaborates further the functional category of nominal aspectuality which describes the construal of extra-linguistic entities as well as the linguistic means reflecting it. In this sense, collective nouns are systematically compared with other (nominal) means of expression of collectivity in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, focusing especially on object mass nouns, which have hardly been studied so far for Romance languages. On the basis of corpus analyses and acceptability judgement studies, a holistic picture is thus drawn of the semantic-syntactic and derivational properties of various noun types in the synchrony of present-day language as well as of the diachronic lexicalisation paths of these very nouns.

The work thus contributes to the understanding of the verbalisation of pluralities by linking and complementing previous monodimensional approaches and, above all, by placing them on a broad empirical basis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110784695
ISBN:: 9783110784695
ISBN:: 9783110784794
ISBN:: 9783110784589
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
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La fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra Quattrocento e Cinquecento

Edizione critica dei volgarizzamenti della «Biblioteca storica», libri I–II

Cecilia Sideri

Volume 471 in this series

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This volume analyzes the fortune of books I–V of Diodorus Siculus’ "Bibliotheca historica" in the 15th and 16th centuries, based on the study of the first two translations into Italian. Published anonymously, they both derived from Poggio Bracciolini’s 1449 Latin version. The study investigates the history of these two texts, reconstructing, as much as possible, the context of their production, and offers a critical parallel edition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747966
ISBN:: 9783110747966
ISBN:: 9783110740431
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Translation Studies
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
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Intimität in der Sprache

Eine Neukonzeption des zärtlichen Sprechens am Beispiel des chilenischen Spanisch

Britta Steinke

Volume 470 in this series

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While much scholarly attention has already been paid to some of the various phenomena of affectionate language – for example pet names and diminutive constructions – the same cannot yet be claimed for affectionate language as such. The author of this volume is the first to present a theory of affectionate modes of speaking, grounding it empirically using a corpus study of Chilean Spanish.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110772708
ISBN:: 9783110772708
ISBN:: 9783110772784
ISBN:: 9783110772647
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Traducción bíblica e historia de las lenguas iberorrománicas

Andrés Enrique-Arias

Volume 469 in this series

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The contributions gathered in this volume explore the possible uses of Bible translations to open new perspectives in the history of Iberian Romance languages. In addition to the linguistic description of Bible translations, they provide innovative analyses of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena of high theoretical interest, thus contributing to improve our historical understanding of Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770766
ISBN:: 9783110770766
ISBN:: 9783110770803
ISBN:: 9783110770674
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Portuguese
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En torno a la delimitación de determinadas categorías lingüísticas

María Martínez-Atienza de Dios

Volume 468 in this series

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This volume delves into the relationships and limits existing between the syntax, morphology, lexicon, semantics and pragmatics of the Spanish language. Tackling each a specific issue, the ten contributions draw on solid linguistic arguments, which proves their scientific value and will undoubtedly inspire more research in this field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767834
ISBN:: 9783110767834
ISBN:: 9783110767902
ISBN:: 9783110767797
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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El queísmo en la historia

Variación y cambio lingüístico en el régimen preposicional del español (siglos XVI–XXI)

José Luis Blas Arroyo, Mónica Velando Casanova

Volume 467 in this series

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The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis of a broad corpus of texts close to the pole of immediacy, the study analyzes the factors that have determined this variation at various points in time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110766851
ISBN:: 9783110766851
ISBN:: 9783110766813
ISBN:: 9783110766868
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
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Textualität im italienischen Nonstandard

Distanzsprachliche Kompetenz und textkonstituierende Verfahren in autobiographischen Texten aus dem 20. Jahrhundert

Andrea Herbst

Volume 466 in this series

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This volume looks at ten private autobiographies by (in part) literate eyewitnesses from the First World War with little writing practice to examine semantic-cognitive (coherence) and grammatical-structural (cohesion) textual contexts. It asks to which extent writers who usually only communicated orally were able to coherently and cohesively create long, complex texts by utilizing the means of written language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765830
ISBN:: 9783110765830
ISBN:: 9783110765878
ISBN:: 9783110765762
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
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Book 2021

I dialetti del Piemonte orientale

Contatto e mutamento linguistico

Lorenzo Ferrarotti

Volume 465 in this series

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This study analyzes the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics of dialect contact among Galloitalic dialects in Eastern Piedmont, which have been reconstructed with the analysis of several linguistic features. They have been examined at several levels of linguistic analysis, with special attention to the diatopic and diachronic variation. The study makes use of a great array of sources for linguistic data, such as field interviews, linguistic atlases, descriptive grammars, and historical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760187
ISBN:: 9783110760187
ISBN:: 9783110760132
ISBN:: 9783110760248
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
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Codex oblitus

Curtius Rufus in der italienischen Übersetzung von Lodrisio Crivelli: Analyse zur Edition des Mscr.Dresd.Ob.47

Josephine Klingebeil

Volume 464 in this series

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The Dresden manuscript Ob.47 is a completely unknown, vernacular translation of the life of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus, of which only one transmission exists. The text and manuscript were written in the mid-fifteenth century in Milan, with the historian Lodrisio Crivelli named as the translator. This volume provides a comprehensive philological analysis of the artifact, accompanied by an edition that is freely available online.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750034
ISBN:: 9783110750034
ISBN:: 9783110750089
ISBN:: 9783110748161
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Translation Studies
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Sabers per als laics

Vernacularització, formació, transmissió (Corona d’Aragó, 1250–1600)

Isabel Müller, Frank Savelsberg

Volume 463 in this series

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This volume brings together contributions by specialists from a variety of disciplines discussing the epistemological history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the transmission of knowledge in the Crown of Aragon. They consider, among other things, the materiality of texts, the linguistic models employed, the persistence of ancient models of perceiving the world, up to the establishment of new ways of thinking and knowledge transfer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110430622
ISBN:: 9783110430622
ISBN:: 9783111254678
ISBN:: 9783110438994
ISBN:: 9783110430738
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Science
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Morphologie comparée du mentonnais et du ligurien alpin

Analyse synchronique et essai de reconstruction

Werner Forner

Volume 462 in this series

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At the border between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, the dialects spoken in Menton as well as in the Roya and Nervia Valleys share distinctive systemic traits – morphophonological, in particular – that are absent in the neighboring varieties (Niçard, Costal Ligurian, Piedmontese). Based on a broad empirical dataset, the study isolates these archaic – and nowadays unique – Gallo-Italic traits, showing their clear affinity with Proto-Ligurian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755893
ISBN:: 9783110755893
ISBN:: 9783110755855
ISBN:: 9783110755954
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Il glossario latino-bergamasco (sec. XV) della Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova (ms. 534)

Nuova edizione con commento linguistico, note lessicali e indici delle voci

Alessandro Aresti

Volume 461 in this series

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The 15th-century ms. 534 of Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova (Italy) contains an extensive Latin-Bergamasco glossary, known through its 1893 edition prepared by the German scholar Jean Etienne Lorck. This publication offers a new edition of this text, based on 21st-century editing principles and standards, and helps gain valuable new insight into the broad linguistic and lexical material the glossary preserves.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599060
ISBN:: 9783110599060
ISBN:: 9783110596762
ISBN:: 9783110596465
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Marcado diferencial de objeto y semántica verbal en español

Diego Romero Heredero

Volume 460 in this series

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The book examines the impact of verbal semantics – telicity and affectedness, mostly – on differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. It presents two studies providing empirical evidence for earlier claims and, additionally, integrates the results into an explanatory model based on the concept of prominence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751734
ISBN:: 9783110751734
ISBN:: 9783110751574
ISBN:: 9783110751772
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Differential Object Marking in Romance

The third wave

Johannes Kabatek, Philipp Obrist, Albert Wall, Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 459 in this series

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After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this “third wave” of studies on DOM in Romance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716207
ISBN:: 9783110716207
ISBN:: 9783110646566
ISBN:: 9783110716238
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Gestaltphonologische Interpretation von Vokalsequenzierungen

Eine Studie zum Portugiesischen, Spanischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Rumänischen

Alexander M. Teixeira Kalkhoff

Volume 458 in this series

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This study presents a phenomenological approach to word-internal vowel sequencing. Diphthongs and hiatuses are thus not objects of examination a priori; instead, as relational sequencing patterns, they are effects of the Gestalt qualities that determine the word structure, which manifest in prominences, syllabification, rhythm, and temporal and phonetic structure, and keep the word recognizable as a whole in the flow of speech.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729733
ISBN:: 9783110729733
ISBN:: 9783110729795
ISBN:: 9783110716160
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond

Miriam Bouzouita, Renata Enghels, Clara Vanderschueren

Volume 457 in this series

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This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It brings together nine case studies that deal with contact between languages found in the Iberian Peninsula (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Basque), between Spanish or Portuguese and another language (such as English), and between different varieties from Europe and other continents. The volume thus unites views from two fields that rarely interact: contact linguistics and dialectology. It discusses the mechanisms and consequences of language contact within the Ibero-Romance world, a geographical space characterised by a high rate of multilingual speakers and settings. The contributions deal with various combinations of convergence and divergence, for example between different varieties of the same language, language stability despite contact, as well as less studied aspects, such as the relation between language contact and second language acquisition, the linguistic landscape perspective of language contact, and divergence in linguistic identity construction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110736250
ISBN:: 9783110736250
ISBN:: 9783110736311
ISBN:: 9783111273730
ISBN:: 9783110739657
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Schreiben im Ersten Weltkrieg

Französische Briefe und Tagebücher wenig geübter Schreiber aus der deutsch-französischen Grenzregion

Lena Sowada

Volume 456 in this series

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What shape does written language usage take in the diaries and letters of people with little routine or experience in writing? This volume looks at the geopolitical and historical context, the acquisition of written language and individual writing socialisation in order to examine this kind of writing on various linguistic levels as the expression of a heterogenous range of writing skills and different written language usage norms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719161
ISBN:: 9783110719161
ISBN:: 9783111266015
ISBN:: 9783110718799
ISBN:: 9783110719352
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Sprachpflegediskurse in Deutschland und Frankreich

Öffentlichkeit – Geschichte – Ideologie

Vera Neusius

Volume 455 in this series

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This contrastive discourse linguistic study examines language planning in Germany and France as a public, historical and ideological discourse system. Using critical theories and broad empirical documentation, it demonstrates the complexity of language planning discourses in transnationally connected knowledge societies and illuminates them against the backdrop of the language behaviour of the actors involved.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723915
ISBN:: 9783110723915
ISBN:: 9783110718102
ISBN:: 9783110724059
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Policy and Planning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Les normes de prononciation du français

Une étude perceptive panfrancophone

Marc Chalier

Volume 454 in this series

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This volume deals with the plurality of French pronunciation norms from a panfrancophone perspective. Using linguistic productions from model speakers, as well as perceptions and representations from non-expert informants, it compares the traditional Parisian norm to the Swiss and Quebecois norms. Results show a bicentric trend with two dominant norms in Europe (Paris) and North America (Quebec).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707540
ISBN:: 9783110707540
ISBN:: 9783110707649
ISBN:: 9783110707434
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Fremdwörter in der italienischen Sportsprache (1920–1970)

Lexikalischer Wandel unter dem Einfluss des faschistischen Fremdwortpurismus im Spiegel von «La Stampa»

Gesine Seymer

Volume 453 in this series

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Loanwords in Italian, in particular in the language of sport, were subject to vehement replacement attempts during fascism (1922–1943). This study examines the relationships between linguistic transformation and puristic intervention by taking an onomasiological, corpus-based approach, throws new light on fascist loanword purism and reveals mechanisms of lexical transformation in Italian (sporting) language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713657
ISBN:: 9783110713657
ISBN:: 9783110713510
ISBN:: 9783110713671
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

El conocimiento compartido

Entre la pragmática y la gramática

Susana Rodriguez Rosique, Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

Volume 452 in this series

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The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711172
ISBN:: 9783110711172
ISBN:: 9783110995954
ISBN:: 9783110711158
ISBN:: 9783110711233
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Der Sprachtypus des Französischen in Grammatik und Paragrammatik

Eine funktionell-strukturelle Analyse der Einzelsprache unter Berücksichtigung der Sprachtypen der Allgemeinen Typenlehre

Bettina Kretz

Volume 451 in this series

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This typological linguistic study determines its object, modern French, holistically in that its comprehensive typology takes into account everything that possesses form or morphology in a language. It provides a functional-structural and typological interpretation of not just grammar, but also semantically affine word formations, which it conceives of as “paragrammar”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693966
ISBN:: 9783110693966
ISBN:: 9783110694017
ISBN:: 9783110693843
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Fremder Text – fremde Welt?

Zu Störungen im Organisationsablauf beim Verstehen fremdsprachlicher Texte

Johanna Wolf

Volume 450 in this series

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Text comprehension processes have long been neglected by pedagogy but are the focus of this empirically based study. How do processes like these take place from the perspective of cognition theory and text linguistics? Which interference factors impede the comprehension of texts in foreign languages? The book also provides a theoretical model that can be used to provide support in second language teaching.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685442
ISBN:: 9783110685442
ISBN:: 9783110685411
ISBN:: 9783110685503
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Le suffixe */-'ur-a/

Recherches sur la morphologie dérivationnelle du protoroman

Bianca Mertens

Volume 449 in this series

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Looking at the Protoromance suffix */-'ur-a/, this study offers new insights into Protoromance derivational morphology. After reconstructing and analyzing some 45 Protoromance etyma containing the suffix */-'ur-a/, it details the phonological, morphological and semantical properties of said suffix in a variational perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694918
ISBN:: 9783110694918
ISBN:: 9783110693942
ISBN:: 9783110694963
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad

Estudio diacrónico de «preciso»/«precisamente», «justo»/«justamente», «exacto»/«exactamente» y «cabal»/«cabalmente»

Katharina Gerhalter, FWF

Volume 448 in this series

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This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, and exacto / exactamente, it is above all concerned with the development of three pragmatic-discursive functions: focalization, affirmation, and reformulation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669831
ISBN:: 9783110669831
ISBN:: 9783110633603
ISBN:: 9783110670073
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Demonstrative Kennzeichnungen im Altfranzösischen

Funktionalität und Diachronie

Sarah Bürk

Volume 447 in this series

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The study expands our understanding of the functions of proximal and distal demonstratives using the example of Old French. For the first time, in addition to referential anchoring, the author uncovers the ontological type of the “reference object.” The combination of these two criteria creates a functional profile that sheds new light on the diachrony of cist and cil.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110648393
ISBN:: 9783110648393
ISBN:: 9783110646900
ISBN:: 9783110992045
ISBN:: 9783110645385
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

La prefijación ablativa y su representación semántico-conceptual

Equivalencias interlingüísticas entre alemán, lenguas clásicas e iberorromances

Elia Hernández Socas

Volume 446 in this series

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This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Spanish, Galician, and Catalan), and German. Based on the contrastive study of what is here labeled ‘preverbial systems’ and the interlingual comparison of prefixed verbs, it identifies the semantic and syntactic functions that can be attributed to these elements.

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar la aportación de los prefijos, específicamente de tipo ablativo, a distintas clases de verbos en las lenguas clásicas, iberorromances y alemán. A partir del estudio intralingüístico de los que consideramos sistemas preverbiales y de la comparación interlingüística de verbos prefijados pretendemos determinar las funciones semánticas y sintácticas atribuibles a estos elementos.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654110
ISBN:: 9783110654110
ISBN:: 9783110645361
ISBN:: 9783110653205
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Classical Languages, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

«’E parole de Roma»

Studi di etimologia e lessicologia romanesche

Vincenzo Faraoni, Michele Loporcaro

Volume 445 in this series

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This volume gathers etymological, lexicological, and lexicographical studies of the Romanesco dialect, written by the most renowned experts in Romanesco and/or Italian linguistics. Considering all historical phases of Romanesco, past and present, they discuss a great number of words and word forms in relation to standard Italian and other varieties of Italian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677492
ISBN:: 9783110677492
ISBN:: 9783110544060
ISBN:: 9783110677553
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

L’andalú – Sprache, Dialekt oder lokale Mundart?

Zur diskursiven Konstruktion des Andalusischen

Benjamin Peter

Volume 444 in this series

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The study presents societal discourse on the status of Andalusian as a language, dialect, or local variant, starting from the basic principles of variation linguistics and linguistic anthropology. Using a newly developed method, it investigates the multiple social contexts in which Andalusian is discursively employed as a way to identify the respective (re)valorizations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659771
ISBN:: 9783110659771
ISBN:: 9783110656749
ISBN:: 9783110658620
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) 3

Entre idioroman et protoroman

Éva Buchi, Wolfgang Schweickard

Volume 443 in this series

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The third volume of the DÉRom contains about forty new lexicographical articles, documenting mainly hereditary Protoromance etyma, but also Gallic borrowings. The theoretical section gathers chapters discussing questions such as the Idioromance infrastructure of the DÉRom, polysemy, synonymy, and the substrates of Protoromance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654264
ISBN:: 9783110654264
ISBN:: 9783110652901
ISBN:: 9783110652826
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Composizione italiana in diacronia

Le parole composte dell’italiano nel quadro della Morfologia delle Costruzioni

M. Silvia Micheli

Volume 442 in this series

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This volume provides a detailed overview of compounding in Italian, from the earliest stages until today. Based on an analysis of data from different corpora, it describes the compound words that Italian has created in the course of the centuries, highlighting elements of continuity with Latin as well as innovative aspects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652161
ISBN:: 9783110652161
ISBN:: 9783110652253
ISBN:: 9783110651553
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Il veneziano «de là da mar»

Contesti, testi, dinamiche del contatto linguistico e culturale

Daniele Baglioni

Volume 441 in this series

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«Veneziano de là da mar», ‘Venetian from beyond the sea’, this is how Gianfranco Folena referred to vernaculars of the eastern Mediterranean (Dalmatia, Aegean Sea, western Asia) that were strongly influenced by the Venetian dialect. This volume gathers new contributions by leading specialists which discuss this particularly interesting case of language contact outside of Italy in the Middle Ages and in the beginning of the early modern era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110652772
ISBN:: 9783110652772
ISBN:: 9783110652444
ISBN:: 9783110777673
ISBN:: 9783110652819
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Des parlers d’oïl à la francophonie

Contact, variation et changement linguistiques

Andreas Dufter, Klaus Grübl, Thomas Scharinger

Volume 440 in this series

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The twelve contributions gathered in this volume explore the history of the French language expansion, putting emphasis on the changes brought about by diatopic variation and language contact. They also analyze the role of language policies and normative representations on the dissemination of French, both in Europe and worldwide.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541816
ISBN:: 9783110541816
ISBN:: 9783110776768
ISBN:: 9783110539868
ISBN:: 9783110539677
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Semantische und diskurstraditionelle Komplexität

Linguistische Interpretationen zur französischen Kurzprosa

Kerstin Meier

Volume 439 in this series

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Starting from two premises, that texts are “greater than the sum of their parts,” and that text semantics and discourse traditions are closely linked, this study develops a linguistically based definition of semantic and discourse-traditional complexity and a model for analyzing it. This model is applied to a corpus of French short prose works to uncover patterns of complexity and connections between complexity and ambiguity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655063
ISBN:: 9783110655063
ISBN:: 9783110653953
ISBN:: 9783110653830
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

La «Chirurgia Magna» di Bruno da Longobucco in volgare

Edizione del codice Bergamo MA 501, commento linguistico, glossario latino-volgare

Emanuele Ventura

Volume 438 in this series

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This volume presents a study of the vernacular tradition of Chirurgia magna, one of the most important chirurgical treatises of the Middle Ages. Alongside an edition of the 15th-century Bergamo vernacular translation, based on ms. MA 501, it provides a historical-linguistic analysis and a glossary meant to illustrate the relationship between Latin and the vernacular in the formation of a medical terminology in the 14th and 15th centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624595
ISBN:: 9783110624595
ISBN:: 9783110624106
ISBN:: 9783110625448
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Desplazamiento, incoación y causación

Sobre la cuasi-sinonimia y gramaticalización de «poner» y «meter» en español

Marie Comer

Volume 437 in this series

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This volume focuses on the Spanish locative verbs "poner" and "meter". By means of logistic regression analyses, the parallels and differences in the spatial relations they denote are established. The thesis also zooms in on their linguistic behavior as auxiliaries in inchoative and causative periphrases. In addition, a historical corpus study describes the grammaticalization of the verbs, starting from the 13th century up to now.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110662757
ISBN:: 9783110662757
ISBN:: 9783110658316
ISBN:: 9783110660029
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Storia sacra e profana nei volgarizzamenti medioevali

Rilievi di lingua e di cultura

Michele Colombo, Paolo Pellegrini, Simone Pregnolato

Volume 436 in this series

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This volume discusses medieval volgarizzamenti of historical writings (religious as well as profane). All fourteen studies recognise the fact that in the late Middle Ages, these texts were an important meeting point for elitist and popular culture which mutually stimulated each other. At the same time, different worlds of knowledge came together as history, mythology, hagiography, and biblical narration were considered to form one entity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110611113
ISBN:: 9783110611113
ISBN:: 9783110608571
ISBN:: 9783110608649
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Constructing Us

The First and Second Persons in Spanish Media Discourse

Miguel A. Aijón Oliva

Volume 435 in this series

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Developments in the analysis of linguistic variation show the need for a theoretical model whereby variants are viewed as cognitively-based communicative choices. In this book, the analysis of the first and second grammatical persons in Spanish media discourse illustrates an approach to linguistic structure and usage as motivated by the need to create meaning at all semiotic levels.

Rather than mere sets of deictic forms, persons constitute arrays of functional strategies used by speakers to develop certain representations of themselves and others. The degree of salience attributed to some participant through grammatical configuration – including features like person, way of formulation and syntactic function – strongly conditions the discursive role of that participant, as well as the communicative situation at large. Methodologically, the demonstration conjugates the analysis of quantitative usage patterns with that of specific instances of choice, in order to elucidate the stylistic potential of syntactic forms in media contexts.

Understanding variation as the construction of meaning is essential to the scientific advancement of linguistics as an inherently social and cognitive discipline.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643442
ISBN:: 9783110643442
ISBN:: 9783110766028
ISBN:: 9783110640779
ISBN:: 9783110635645
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

La composicionalidad temporal del perfecto compuesto en español

Estudio sincrónico y dialectal

Susana Azpiazu Torres

Volume 434 in this series

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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633658
ISBN:: 9783110633658
ISBN:: 9783110633016
ISBN:: 9783110632989
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Diaphasische Variation und syntaktische Komplexität

Eine empirische Studie zu funktionalen Stilen des Spanischen mit einem Ausblick auf das Französische

Robert Hesselbach

Volume 433 in this series

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This empirically oriented study examines the connection between conceptual orality/literacy and the degree of syntactic complexity in modern European Spanish – and in part, in French. For this purpose, the author syntactically analyzed a stylistically heterogeneous corpus of over 10,000 sentences, both qualitatively and quantitively.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592290
ISBN:: 9783110592290
ISBN:: 9783110589795
ISBN:: 9783110588828
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Clases y categorías en la semántica del español y sus interfaces

Dolores García Padrón, Héctor Hernández Arocha, Carsten Sinner

Volume 432 in this series

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This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphology, and syntax. From a number of different perspectives, the essays study phenomena such as lexicalization, grammaticalization, lexical and grammatical classes, compositionality, argument structure, lexical aspects, and the categories of language and reality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637700
ISBN:: 9783110637700
ISBN:: 9783110633924
ISBN:: 9783110633627
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Interfaces
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Variation im städtischen Raum

Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zur intraurbanen Koexistenz von «ʒeísmo» und «ʃeísmo» in Buenos Aires

Katharina Link

Volume 431 in this series

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In Buenos Aires, the coexistence of the voiced “ʒeísmo” and the voiceless “ʃeísmo” is a striking phonetic characteristic that remains a highly dynamic phenomenon. This urban dialectological and sociolinguistic study uses a diasystemic perspective to focus on the synchronal distribution of the pre-palatal variants and discusses both place and group specific and pragmatic factors influencing the variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637663
ISBN:: 9783110637663
ISBN:: 9783110633849
ISBN:: 9783110633597
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Der Verbalanschluss im Spanischen

Kognitiv-syntaktische Analyse nominaler und satzwertiger Akkusativobjekte

Jakob Egetenmeyer

Volume 430 in this series

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In Spanish, when nominal and clausal accusative objects follow verbs, there are always two possible realizations: with or without a differential object marking (DOM) – finite or infinite. The study describes in detail the semantics of these structures and explains the formal opposition based on the principle of complexity iconization. Corpus and experimental data support the theoretical approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110595826
ISBN:: 9783110595826
ISBN:: 9783110595161
ISBN:: 9783110592887
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen in Argentinien

Pressediskurse in Zeiten der Krise

Simone Maria Mwangi

Volume 429 in this series

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Crisis events, often understood as forces of nature, may also be perceived in entirely different ways, depending on the language and cultural context. Thus, the 2014 Argentine debt default was interpreted in public discourse as a challenge to be overcome and served as a discourse on national identity. This discourse-linguistic study examines the other side of the crisis and a pattern of resilient engagement with adversity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110620726
ISBN:: 9783110620726
ISBN:: 9783110617955
ISBN:: 9783110617610
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Leggere la «Vita Nuova»

Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung und literarischen Rezeption der «Vita Nuova» von Dante Alighieri im Trecento

Myrtha de Meo-Ehlert

Volume 428 in this series

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This study of the first handwritten and literary reception records of the Vita Nuova provides an innovative addition to our understanding of Italian poetry of the Trecento. Studying the reception of the Vita Nuova through its textual vehicles, taking a literary textual analysis as a departure point for a paleographic examination and cultural historical evaluation, is an innovation in Dante research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110620504
ISBN:: 9783110620504
ISBN:: 9783110617603
ISBN:: 9783110617801
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Polysémie, usages et fonctions de « voilà »

Gilles Col, Charlotte Danino, Stéphane Bikialo

Volume 427 in this series

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The use of voilà in French is rapidly increasing. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to this phenomenon, the authors point out explanatory factors that lead them to a functional hypothesis: by gathering scattered pieces of information and turning them into a perceptible ensemble, voilà enhances cognitive grouping.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622454
ISBN:: 9783110622454
ISBN:: 9783110621204
ISBN:: 9783110565119
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Topic- und Focus-Markierung im Altitalienischen

Frédéric Nicolosi

Volume 426 in this series

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This volume focuses on the historical pragmatics of the Italian language. The aim is to show the necessity of including the pragmatic function of language in order to adequately describe Old Italian syntax. It examines syntactically marked constructions in 13^th and 14^th century narrative texts that serve to express particular discursive functions, primarily in relation to topic and focus marking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614114
ISBN:: 9783110614114
ISBN:: 9783110611557
ISBN:: 9783110611380
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Briefe aus den Jahren 1869 bis 1910

Gustav Gröber, Frank-Rutger Hausmann

Volume 425 in this series

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Gelehrtenkorrespondenzen sind eine der authentischsten Quellen der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Von dem Romanisten Gustav Gröber (1844–1911), der in Leipzig promoviert, in Zürich habilitiert wurde und danach in Breslau und Straßburg i.E. als Professor wirkte, gibt es bisher nur zwei publizierte Briefausgaben (mit Philipp August Becker und Hugo Schuchardt). Dank intensiver Suche konnten ca. 1000 weitere Briefe und Postkarten Gröbers aus europäischen und überseeischen Archiven und Bibliotheken zusammengetragen werden, die umfassend über seine Stellung als international anerkannter Forscher, akademischer Lehrer, Wissenschaftsorganisator und Herausgeber der bis heute bestehenden "Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie", des immer noch als Standardwerk geltenden "Grundriss der romanischen Philologie" sowie einer zu ihrer Zeit viel benutzten, aber heute kaum noch bekannten Textreihe (Bibliotheca romanica) informieren. Fast sämtliche Briefe sind auf Deutsch abgefasst, damals eine der Hauptsprachen der Gelehrtenrepublik.
Kurzporträts der Korrespondenten, eine ausführliche Bibliographie und ein Verzeichnis aller Doktoranden (darunter 19 spätere Professoren) Gröbers runden den Band ab.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110588132
ISBN:: 9783110588132
ISBN:: 9783110709704
ISBN:: 9783110585704
ISBN:: 9783110585650
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Knowledge
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: History of Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Non-prototypical Clefts in French

A Corpus Analysis of “il y a” Clefts

Lena Karssenberg

Volume 424 in this series

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This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known il y a clefts – of both presentational-eventive and specificational type – and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic,　semantic and discourse-functional properties.

In addition to an extensive literature review and a comparison with Italian c’è clefts and with French c’est clefts, the strength of the study lies in the critical approach it develops to the common definition of clefts. Several commonly used criteria for clefts are applied to the corpus data, revealing that these criteria often lead to ambiguous results. The reasons for this ambiguity are explored, thus leading to a better understanding of what constitutes a cleft. In this sense, the analysis will be of interest to specialists of Romance and non-Romance clefts alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586435
ISBN:: 9783110586435
ISBN:: 9783110584202
ISBN:: 9783110583755
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Allegorese als Ambiguierungsverfahren

Eine kognitiv-semantische und diskurstraditionelle Analyse mittelalterlicher romanischer Predigten

Mirjam Sigmund

Volume 423 in this series

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This study examines the function of allegorism in a total of 63 Romance language sermons from six 12^th and 13^th century sermon collections. A cognitive-semantic analysis of 250 individual allegories shows the ways that the authors of these sermons found opportunities for interpretative creativity within highly conventional patterns of interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586411
ISBN:: 9783110586411
ISBN:: 9783110584219
ISBN:: 9783110583724
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Cognitive Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Central Catalan and Swabian

A Study in the Framework of the Typology of Syllable and Word Languages

Javier Caro Reina

Volume 422 in this series

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In contrast to previous approaches to phonological typology, the typology of syllable and word languages relates the patterns of syllable structure, phoneme inventory, and phonological processes to the relevance of the prosodic domains of the syllable and the phonological word.

This volume proves how useful this kind of typology is for the understanding of language variation and change. By providing a synchronic and diachronic account of the syllable and the phonological word in Central Catalan (Catalan dialect group) and Swabian (Alemannic dialect group), the author shows how the evolution of Old Catalan and Old Alemannic can be explained in terms of a typological drift toward an increased relevance of the phonological word.

Further, the description of Central Catalan and Swabian allows to identify common strategies for profiling the phonological word and thus makes an important contribution to research on prosodic phonology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110573060
ISBN:: 9783110573060
ISBN:: 9783110570755
ISBN:: 9783110555387
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Le français parlé informel

Stratégies de topicalisation

Márton Gergely Horváth

Volume 421 in this series

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Based on a set of oral corpora, this study offers a thorough analysis of topicalizing constructions in informal spoken French – both from a prosodic-syntactic and pragmatic-discursive point of view.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110571318
ISBN:: 9783110571318
ISBN:: 9783110568844
ISBN:: 9783110566741
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Latin tardif, français ancien

Continuités et ruptures

Anne Carlier, Céline Guillot-Barbance

Volume 420 in this series

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Even though a rich written tradition documents the evolution from Latin to French, the crucial transition from Late Latin to Old French in the oral language remains partially obscure. Thanks to a corpus-based approach and the collaboration of Latinists and French historians, this edited volume sheds a new light on this missing link.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110551716
ISBN:: 9783110551716
ISBN:: 9783110550009
ISBN:: 9783110489637
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Español y portugués en contacto

Préstamos léxicos e interferencias

Dolores Corbella, Alejandro Fajardo

Volume 419 in this series

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The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110552027
ISBN:: 9783110552027
ISBN:: 9783110550238
ISBN:: 9783110549966
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Portuguese
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko

Eine sprecherzentrierte Studie zur Vitalität des yukatekischen Maya

Julia Montemayor Gracia

Volume 418 in this series

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Nearly 15 years after the formal recognition of indigenous peoples and their rights, this study uses the example of Yucatec Maya to examine Mexico’s complex multilingual tradition. Offering a speaker-centric perspective on the vitality of Maya, this comprehensive study paints a differentiated picture of the current situation of the language. It thus promises to be a valuable aid to future speaker-oriented revitalization projects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547245
ISBN:: 9783110547245
ISBN:: 9783110545128
ISBN:: 9783110544749
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of the Americas
Subject:: Languages of the Americas, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Anthropological Linguistics and Ethnolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Il «Thesaurus pauperum» pisano

Edizione critica, commento linguistico e glossario

Giuseppe Zarra

Volume 417 in this series

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Medieval medicine is a field of study still largely unexplored, due mainly to the absence of modern editions of texts.
One of these texts is the Thesaurus pauperum, a collection of recipes prepared with natural (and easily accessible) ingredients, conceived as a manual for self-medication. The extraordinary success of this work is proved by its large number of Latin witnesses and by the abundant vernacular translations.
The book presents for the first time the critical edition of the Thesaurus pauperum in ancient Pisan vernacular: the text is transmitted by six manuscripts, and dates back to the 14th century. This critical edition is completed with the linguistic analysis of the text and with a glossary of botanical and medical terms. A general introduction put this work in context, offering a survey of medieval medicine and dealing specifically with the different Italian translations of the Thesaurus pauperum. This book provides an useful contribution to the study of history of medicine and to the study of Italian linguistics, thanks to the description of ancient Pisan vernacular and to the lexicological analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110543261
ISBN:: 9783110543261
ISBN:: 9783110541038
ISBN:: 9783110538502
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Verbstellungsmuster im Altfranzösischen

Ein Beitrag zur historischen Syntaxforschung aus diskurstraditioneller Perspektive

Eva Varga

Volume 416 in this series

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Attempts at a typological classification of Old French have led to the question of whether Old French is a verb-second language. This study reformulates the question by analyzing syntactical data using systems theory and discourse tradition. Are language systems pertinent for understanding Old French syntax? Or should Old French syntax instead be explained using a discourse tradition that does not rely on systems?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110536591
ISBN:: 9783110536591
ISBN:: 9783110534580
ISBN:: 9783110534382
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Philologie und Grammatik

Georg A. Kaiser, Harald Völker

Volume 415 in this series

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This edited volume documents an attempt to integrate philological and grammatical approaches, kept strictly separate in traditional Romance language research, and to enable dialogue between proponents of each discipline. Philology and Grammar brings together two worlds that have more to say to each other than one might have suspected.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527766
ISBN:: 9783110527766
ISBN:: 9783110525496
ISBN:: 9783110524635
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Konzeptionelle Nähe und sprachliche Routinisierung

Konversationelle Selbstreparaturen im Französischen

Johanna Stahnke

Volume 414 in this series

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The study investigates prosodic, lexical, and syntactic variation in conceptual proximity and distance based on the example of conversational self-repair in French. In proximal speech, speakers tend to recontextualize corrections that would disrupt discourse with less grievous paraphrases. This procedure relies on conceptual proximity in conversation, and potentially leads to linguistic routinization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527155
ISBN:: 9783110527155
ISBN:: 9783110524727
ISBN:: 9783110523836
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Avertiv und Proximativ

Eine korpusbasierte synchrone und diachrone Untersuchung der romanischen Sprachen

Sarah Schwellenbach

Volume 413 in this series

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This work undertakes a first-ever corpus-based synchronic and diachronic study of the avertive and proximative in Romance languages while considering both Latin and Ancient Greek. It systematically charts and verifies new pathways of grammaticalization based on corpus linguistics.

This study was awarded the Elise Richter Preis of Deutscher Romanistenverband 2017 and the Prize of the Offermann-Hergarten-Stiftung 2020.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110526745
ISBN:: 9783110526745
ISBN:: 9783110524390
ISBN:: 9783110523928
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Onomastik des Rolandsliedes

Namen als Schlüssel zu Strukturen, Welthaltigkeit und Vorgeschichte des Liedes

Gustav Adolf Beckmann

Volume 411 in this series

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This ambitious examination of all the proper names in the Chanson de Roland shows that it is finely structured even up to the smallest scenes, and substantially worldlier than has been generally assumed. This makes it possible to retrace the outlines of the Chanson’s long prehistory, though with diminishing certainty, as far back as the Frankish defeat of 778.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110494945
ISBN:: 9783110494945
ISBN:: 9783110634464
ISBN:: 9783110491883
ISBN:: 9783110474718
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Onomastics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Altfranzösisch in hebräischer Graphie

Teiledition und Analyse des Medizintraktats «Fevres»

Julia Zwink

Volume 410 in this series

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Only a few works on medical theory are extant in 14^th-century Old French. This book includes a partial edition and translation along with historical, dialectological, and source-analytic studies about an anonymous treatise on fever written after 1300 in Hebrew characters in eastern France. The medical vocabulary in Fevres is explained in glossaries that include many first-known references.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490039
ISBN:: 9783110490039
ISBN:: 9783110487152
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Asia
Subject:: Semitic Languages
Subject:: Hebrew
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Anglizismen in Hispanoamerika

Adoption und Integration, Nivellierung und Differenzierung

Hendrik Detjen

Volume 409 in this series

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This work undertakes a first empirical and comparative investigation of Anglicisms in 12 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Unity and diversity are key themes in the study, which analyzes the use of English in daily newspapers, placing special emphasis on the graphic and morphological integration of borrowed terms. The study’s findings relativize existing notions of the influence exerted by English in the region, both in terms of its extent and its geographical distribution.

Winner of Fakultätspreis der Philosophischen Fakultät (Kiel University) 2016

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110489736
ISBN:: 9783110489736
ISBN:: 9783110487688
ISBN:: 9783110487169
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Marcadores derivados de verbos de movimiento

Una aproximación cognitiva a su polifuncionalidad

Sanne Tanghe

Volume 408 in this series

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This study focuses on the polyfunctionality of discourse markers derived from verbs of motion in Spanish. Based on an extensive corpus of spoken language it provides a detailed analysis of the association between their functional behavior and their concrete and formal expression (position, prosody, combinations). In line with the cognitive approach, the investigation also explores the link between the pragmatic uses of the markers and the conceptualization of their lexical bases (the verb forms). The findings stress the importance of an integrated approach to the description of markers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110489019
ISBN:: 9783110489019
ISBN:: 9783110487107
ISBN:: 9783110486667
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Hacia un enfoque múltiple de la polisemia

Un estudio empírico del verbo multimodal «sentir» desde una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica

Marlies Jansegers

Volume 407 in this series

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This study focuses on the formalization of a fundamental experience of human existence: the act of perception. Unlike most other linguistic research dealing with the "prototypical" verbs of visual and auditory perception, it concentrates on the complicated polysemy of the multimodal verb sentir. The findings provide important new insight into the linguistic expression of perception in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476972
ISBN:: 9783110476972
ISBN:: 9783110475074
ISBN:: 9783110474701
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Passione Trivulziana

Armonia evangelica volgarizzata in milanese antico. Edizione critica e commentata, analisi linguistica e glossario

Michele Colombo

Volume 406 in this series

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This book provides an edition and a linguistic analysis of a Passion of the Christ written in old Milanese prose and preserved in a 15th-century manuscript. The study discusses the dating of this text, the geographical context, and its dependence on a Latin model. It also analyzes its relationship with other known prose Passions and identifies their sources. A concluding word glossary highlights the most interesting and obscure words and terms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110480283
ISBN:: 9783110480283
ISBN:: 9783110478280
ISBN:: 9783110476491
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Lingüística de corpus y lingüística histórica iberorrománica

Johannes Kabatek, Carlota de Benito Moreno

Volume 405 in this series

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How and in which direction(s) is research in Ibero-Romance historical linguistics evolving? Now that the initial enthusiasm for the possibilities of digital corpora has worn off, the essays gathered in this volume reflect a more critical approach: corpora are being refined, while researchers discuss not only how reliable and representative they can be, but also ways in which to tackle certain gaps of the discipline.

¿Por dónde va la lingüística histórica iberorrománica? Superada ya la fase de entusiasmo inicial por las nuevas posibilidades que ofrecían los grandes corpus digitales, los estudios de este volumen muestran cómo actualmente predomina una visión más crítica: se refinan los propios corpus, se plantean cuestiones como la fiabilidad y la representatividad y se pone remedio a ciertos defectos que perduraban en la disciplina hasta hace pocos años.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110462357
ISBN:: 9783110462357
ISBN:: 9783110460506
ISBN:: 9783110460223
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Portuguese
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Los sefardíes de Bulgaria

Estudio y edición crítica de la obra «Notas istorikas» de Avraam Moshe Tadjer

Amor Ayala

Volume 404 in this series

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Avraam Moshe Tadjer published his Notas istorikas sovre los djudyos de Bulgaria i la komunita de Sofya in Judeo-Spanish and Rashi script in 1932. The work is an essential document for the history of this Sephardic community and one of the last Judeo-Spanish texts published in Bulgaria before World War II. This book offers a critical edition of Notas istorikas preceded by a detailed cultural-historical and linguistic study.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110458473
ISBN:: 9783110458473
ISBN:: 9783110456493
ISBN:: 9783110452709
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish Literature
Subject:: Modern Jewish Literature
Subject:: Jewish Languages
Subject:: Ladino, Judeo-Spanish
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Los relacionantes locativos en la historia del español

Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta

Volume 403 in this series

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There is no survey study to date that would have analyzed the history of spatial relations in Castilian Spanish, i.e. the prepositions, transitive adverbs as well as prepositional and adverbial locutions used for the spatial localization of entities. Based on an extensive corpus, this book offers a complete diasystematic characterization of these aspects and discusses new hypotheses with regard to their correlations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110458510
ISBN:: 9783110458510
ISBN:: 9783110456592
ISBN:: 9783110452716
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) 2

Pratique lexicographique et réflexions théoriques

Éva Buchi, Wolfgang Schweickard

Volume 402 in this series

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This second volume on the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) contains forty new lexicographical articles as well as an extensive theoretical section which discusses various questions pertaining to the methods, problems and implications of comparative reconstruction in Romance linguistics (phonology, semantics, grammar, geolinguistics and cartography).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110453614
ISBN:: 9783110453614
ISBN:: 9783110451573
ISBN:: 9783110450262
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Deutsch-italienische Lexikographie vor 1900

Die Arbeiten des Sprach- und Kulturmittlers Francesco Valentini (1789–1862)

Anne-Kathrin Gärtig

Volume 401 in this series

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This study presents the history of bilingual German-Italian lexicography prior to 1900. It provides a detailed analysis of the lexicographical and language didactic works of Francesco Valentini, a Roman scholar working in Berlin. Through his example, it shows how a foundation was created for a modern lexicography of equivalence in the first half of the 19^th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449891
ISBN:: 9783110449891
ISBN:: 9783110447828
ISBN:: 9783110447729
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Textes français privés des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Gerhard Ernst

Volume 400 in this series

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Expanded edition of 10 French private texts from different regions, with a lot of new comments on spelling, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Revealing the authors’ differences in social status and education, they convey contrasting attitudes toward the linguistic standard of their time. The linguistic form of the original handwritten texts is strictly respected; graphical aids have been added to enhance their readability.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110482003
ISBN:: 9783110482003
ISBN:: 9783110480030
ISBN:: 9783110470871
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Diaries, Letters and Journals
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Scripto sopra Theseu Re

Il commento salentino al «Teseida» di Boccaccio (Ugento/Nardò, ante 1487)

Marco Maggiore

Volume 399 in this series

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Scripto sopra Theseu Re is an anonymous commentary on Boccaccio’s epic poem Teseida, preserved in a 15th-century manuscript written in old Salentino dialect. Unedited to date and barely known even by Boccaccio experts, the commentary is one of the most extensive and significant texts written in the southern part of medieval Italy. The two volumes offer the first critical edition of the commentary as well as analyses of its sources and language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110436471
ISBN:: 9783110436471
ISBN:: 9783110433791
ISBN:: 9783110441529
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Las relaciones interoracionales en español

Categorías sintácticas y subordinación adverbial

María Victoria Pavón Lucero

Volume 398 in this series

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Este volumen recoge diversos estudios sobre la subordinación adverbial en español. Este fenómeno comprende una multiplicidad de estructuras sintácticas en las que intervienen categorías gramaticales como las preposiciones, conjunciones y adverbios, que, en comparación con otras, han recibido poca atención desde el punto de vista de la sintaxis formal. Los fenómenos se analizan teniendo en cuenta el panorama lingüístico actual, por lo que se exponen explicaciones y generalizaciones cuyo alcance va más allá de la gramática de una lengua particular.

El volumen está dividido en dos partes. En la primera se presentan los planteamientos generales que han guiado los trabajos que lo componen y se analizan diversas cuestiones de índole diacrónica. La segunda parte recoge una serie de trabajos de tipo sincrónico que revisan cuestiones relacionadas con las diferentes estructuras sintácticas que tradicionalmente se han acogido como parte de la subordinación adverbial y, en consecuencia, los diferentes tipos de categorías sintácticas que encabezan estas construcciones.

En definitiva, el lector encontrará en esta obra una selección de trabajos que tratan de aportar luz al fenómeno de la subordinación adverbial en el caso particular del español.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429213
ISBN:: 9783110429213
ISBN:: 9783110429282
ISBN:: 9783110437911
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Les grammairiens italiens face à leur langue (15e–16e s.)

Laurent Vallance

Volume 397 in this series

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Based on the broadest corpus ever analyzed (25 grammars published between 1440 and 1586), this study offers a comprehensive view of grammatical thought during the Italian Renaissance – the first of its kind since the works of Trabalza (1908) and Kukenheim (1932). Devoting a particular attention to the historical context, the method and structure of each work, it highlights three linguistic innovations: article, compound tenses, and conditional.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110427585
ISBN:: 9783110427585
ISBN:: 9783110427615
ISBN:: 9783110370942
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Nähesprachliches Italienisch im Ruhrgebiet und in Catania

Vergleichende phonetisch-prosodische Untersuchungen

Judith Kittler

Volume 396 in this series

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This study focuses on the spoken language of Italian-speaking inhabitants of the Ruhr Area. It offers an objective, quantifiable presentation of the differences in the forms of speech in pronunciation and prosody and examines the language spoken by Italians in the Ruhr Area in terms of phonetic and prosodic variations compared to Italian speakers in the province of Catania.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110416107
ISBN:: 9783110412277
ISBN:: 9783110416107
ISBN:: 9783110416237
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Sprache und Raum in der Romania

Fallstudien zu Belgien, Frankreich, der Schweiz und Spanien

Felix Tacke

Volume 395 in this series

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The study examines the connections between language and space, focusing on “linguistic territoriality.” The author discusses the behavioral patterns of language communities, which manifest themselves in the appropriation and defense of “language areas,” by illuminating conflict situations in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Spain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110407136
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040692-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040713-6
ISBN:: 9783110407242
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Sujetos pronominales en el español porteño

Implicaciones pragmáticas en la interfaz sintáctico-fonológica

Andrea Peškova

Volume 394 in this series

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Combinando distintas perspectivas como la gramática generativa, la gramática tradicional y estudios empíricos ‘variacionistas’, el libro aborda el uso de los sujetos pronominales en el español hablado en Buenos Aires (porteño) y abarca dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, determina las condiciones de uso de los sujetos explícitos e implícitos, tanto categóricos como variables. En este sentido, ya que el ‘sujeto nulo’ se asume como forma no marcada del sujeto, la cuestión fundamental es explicar la variante explícita del pronombre sujeto de la misma. Se observa que el sujeto expreso funciona unas veces como foco, tópico contrastivo o desambiguador, y otras como alternación del tópico (shift topic) o como marcador de la frontera de un tema ‘episódico’ nuevo. En segundo lugar, se describen sistemáticamente las diferentes funciones pragmáticas (foco, diferentes tipos de tópico) que asumen los pronombres sujeto en la interfaz sintáctico-prosódica. De este modo, el presente trabajo constituye una contribución importante al estudio de las características sintácticas y prosódicas de los sujetos pronominales explícitos en el habla espontánea de una variedad del español.

El libro aborda el uso de los sujetos pronominales en el español de Buenos Aires con un enfoque tanto teórico como empírico. Basándose en datos espontáneos, primero, se investiga la influencia de diferentes factores internos al sistema de la lengua en la expresión y la omisión de los sujetos pronominales, y después, se analizan los correlatos sintácticos y prosódicos de los sujetos explícitos con diferentes funciones discurso-pragmáticas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110416398
ISBN:: 9783110415759
ISBN:: 9783110416398
ISBN:: 9783110416459
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

I «Diarii» di Marin Sanudo (1496–1533)

Sondaggi filologici e linguistici

Francesco Crifò

Volume 393 in this series

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The Diarii, faithful chronicle of the years between 1496 and 1533 written by the Venetian patrician Marino Sanuto, are considered an indispensable reference work for research on the late Renaissance. This present study provides a detailed linguistic and philological analysis of the Diarii, based on the edition Fulin et al. (1879–1903) as well as on excerpts of autographic manuscripts (Marc.It. VII, 228–286).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406405
ISBN:: 9783110406405
ISBN:: 9783110406481
ISBN:: 9783110404364
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Desarrollo sociolingüístico del voseo en la región andina de Colombia (1555–1976)

Ana María Díaz Collazos

Volume 392 in this series

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Sobre la historia del voseo, o el uso informal del pronombre «vos» y su morfología, se han hecho estudios con datos restringidos a cortos períodos de tiempo, lo que imposibilita el conocimiento global de su desarrollo lingüístico. Este libro ofrece una exposición completa de la evolución histórica del voseo en la región andina de Colombia desde el siglo XVI hasta el XX, en contraste con el mundo hispano. Vos evoluciona a partir de un pronombre latino plural hacia uno singular de respeto, que se populariza como tratamiento familiar en el siglo XVI y se estigmatiza. Desaparece de la escritura desde mediados del siglo XVII hasta principios del siglo XIX (período latente). Este libro documenta voseo en el período latente; realiza un análisis cuantitativo de los contextos lingüísticos y sociales de voseo en obras literarias y cartas privadas; y delinea la evolución morfológica. De esta manera, no solo ofrece datos novedosos para los investigadores interesados en las formas de tratamiento en español y sus orígenes, sino que hace un planteamiento metodológico de utilidad para sociolingüistas, filólogos y analistas del discurso.

El voseo, o el uso del pronombre «vos» en el trato informal, se destaca por su variedad morfológica, potencialidad expresiva y variación sociolingüística. Este estudio analiza tales aspectos de la evolución colonial y moderna del voseo en una variedad del español, la que se habla en la región andina de Colombia. Integra herramientas cuantitativas y cualitativas con base en ejemplos tomados de obras literarias, cartas y expedientes judiciales.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110404142
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040370-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040414-2
ISBN:: 9783110404227
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Binominal Quantifiers in Spanish

Conceptually-driven Analogy in Diachrony and Synchrony

Katrien Dora Verveckken

Volume 391 in this series

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Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1.

This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406733
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040371-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040673-3
ISBN:: 9783110406832
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Autorschaft und Autorität in den romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters

Susanne A. Friede, Michael Schwarze

Volume 390 in this series

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The contributions gathered in this volume discuss how, in which contexts, and under which circumstances “authorship” is constituted in medieval Romance literatures. Special focus is placed on the important question of how authority is established and conveyed in literary texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366297
ISBN:: 9783110370645
ISBN:: 9783110366297
ISBN:: 9783110394368
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

El castellano de Getxo

Estudio empírico de aspectos morfológicos, sintácticos y semánticos de una variedad del castellano hablado en el País Vasco

Christine Paasch-Kaiser

Volume 389 in this series

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Este estudio está dedicado al castellano hablado en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca (CAV o País Vasco) y, en particular, en Getxo. La autora investiga si el castellano hablado en esta región es una única variedad, o bien se compone de diversas variedades, con un núcleo común, usadas por los diferentes grupos de hablantes de la comunidad de comunicación vasca.

En la parte teórica, el estudio responde a esta pregunta elaborando una definición de qué debe entenderse por «castellano del País Vasco», teniendo en cuenta diversos factores sociales relevantes a la hora de describir la comunidad de comunicación vasca. Le precede un amplio repaso de otros trabajos dedicados al castellano hablado en la CAV.

En virtud de la definición propuesta se añade un estudio basado en un corpus oral de 20 entrevistas con informantes castellanohablantes monolingües de Getxo. Realizado desde una perspectiva variacional, dicho estudio analiza, cualitativamente, 17 fenómenos lingüísticos que se suelen considerar característicos del castellano del País Vasco. Asimismo, se proporcionan datos cuantitativos sobre la ocurrencia de cada fenómeno. A partir de sus resultados, la autora razona cuáles de los fenómenos estudiados forman parte del castellano de Getxo.

El trabajo, realizado desde una perspectiva variacional, estudia el castellano hablado en el País Vasco y, en particular en Getxo. La parte teórica propone una definición sobre el concepto «castellano del País Vasco», y la empírica estudia 17 fenómenos lingüísticos en un corpus oral de 20 entrevistas con castellanohablantes monolingües. El libro proporciona resultados interesantes para la investigación de la variedad lingüística de Getxo.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366518
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037056-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036651-8
ISBN:: 9783110394375
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Las familias de palabras

Relaciones entre morfología, semántica y estructura argumental en las raíces «dec(ir)» y «sag(en)»

Héctor Hernández Arocha

Volume 388 in this series

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For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study of the lexical structures commonly understood as ‘word families’ and the theoretical and methodological bases of their analysis. Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, the study discusses different theoretical approaches and positions.

El presente volumen estudia – por primera vez de forma comparativa tanto en la lingüística hispánica como germánica – las estructuras léxicas denominadas tradicionalmente «familias de palabras» y las bases teórico-metodológicas de su análisis. En él se discuten los desarrollos teóricos surgidos, sobre todo pero no exclusivamente, en Alemania, España y Francia, ejemplificándolos con las familias derivadas de las raíces dec(ir) y sag(en).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366198
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037093-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036619-8
ISBN:: 9783110394351
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Das zweigeteilte Baskenland

Sprachkontakt, Sprachvariation und regionale Identität in Frankreich und Spanien

Claudia Schlaak

Volume 387 in this series

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This work undertakes an empirical analysis of current linguistic circumstances in the Basque Country. The two Basque subpopulations living on French and Spanish territory are compared and contrasted in terms of various parameters, including the prevalence of Basque cultural traditions and language, and related attitudes about Basque identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366877
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037239-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036687-7
ISBN:: 9783110393309
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Welten in Sprache

Zur Entwicklung der Kategorie «Modus» in romanischen Sprachen

Martin G. Becker

Volume 386 in this series

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This study makes an important contribution to the theory of language change by analyzing the evolution of the French modal system from its origins in Late Latin through français classique, based on newer textual corpora and using the framework of a modal semantic approach. These developments are compared to those of other Romance languages, with the Italian modal system serving as a foil to emphasize contrast.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110342833
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034216-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034283-3
ISBN:: 9783110394948
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

La liturgia del «trobar»

Assimilazione e riuso di elementi del rito cristiano nelle canzoni occitane medievali

Gianluca Valenti

Volume 385 in this series

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This study investigates the influence of medieval liturgy on the literary work of Occitan poets during the 12th and 13th centuries. It focuses on the diverse effects emanating from metrical hymn structure, sacraments, prayers, and the veneration of the saints, and additionally explores the specific impact of liturgical metaphors on the language of the troubadours.

Il presente lavoro indaga l’influenza della liturgia medievale sui componimenti dei poeti occitani (secc. XII–XIII). L’analisi mostra l’influsso, sui trovatori, della struttura metrico-melodica di inni e prosule, dei sacramenti, di formule liturgiche, di preghiere e letture bibliche, della gestualità del fedele a messa, del culto dei santi e, infine, di alcune metafore di origine liturgica, come ad esempio quella del «fuoco d’amore».

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110340242
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034021-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034024-2
ISBN:: 9783110395327
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Liturgical Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

The Châteauroux Version of the «Chanson de Roland»

A Fully Annotated Critical Text

Marjorie Moffat

Volume 384 in this series

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Here at last is a fully annotated critical edition of the Châteauroux text of the Chanson de Roland. Even in the Corpus edition, C was represented by a simple transcript.

The Roland Corpus edition of 2005 took Venice 7 as the base text and V7 laisses 92A and 108A were relegated to Appendix A. This obscured crucial evidence demonstrating the greater authority of C as representing the shared model and the role of V7 as modifier of that model. Close comparison of C with V7 and of both texts with the other versions disproves the Segre thesis of the anteriority of V7.

In this edition, the aim is always to provide an authentic text with minimal emendation, so as to show the salient characteristics of C, but to discuss its readings in detailed footnotes. All arguments are solidly based on textual analysis throughout and particularly in C’s repetitions and associated assonanced passages. In addition, the linguistic characteristics are studied and the historical background to C pre-1328 and its possible route from Venice to Paris between 1746 and 1792 investigated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339741
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033961-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033974-1
ISBN:: 9783110373103
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Die frühen Übersetzungen aus dem Englischen ins Französische

Am Beispiel der Nordamerikaliteratur (1572–1700)

Maria Hegner

Volume 383 in this series

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The earliest translations from English to French have rarely been the objects of careful study. This volume provides detailed empirical analyses of the strategies employed by French translators of early English travel reports on North America. It offers new insights on the history of translation and on aspects of the history of the English and French languages during the 16th and 17th centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333398
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033226-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033339-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Translation Studies
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Aspektualität

Ein onomasiologisches Modell am Beispiel der romanischen Sprachen

Sarah Dessì Schmid

Volume 382 in this series

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This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the classification and interpretation of aspectual characteristics of facts. Differently from traditional approaches, that differentiate between the grammatical and lexical aspect of the verb and analyze the grammatical aspect by looking at only one language and by raising semasiological questions, this study understands aspectuality to be a content category that comprises the lexical aspect and asserts itself across the languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110334449
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032725-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033444-9
ISBN:: 9783110393644
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom)

Genèse, méthodes et résultats

Éva Buchi, Wolfgang Schweickard

Volume 381 in this series

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The Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) presents the first attempt at etymologizing the ancestral vocabulary of the Romance languages since the publication of Meyer-Lübke’s REW. Deviating from practices commonly accepted and applied in etymological research, the DÉRom adopts a method that has so far, due to the extensive documentation of written Latin, been dismissed as being little viable for Romance Studies: the comparative analysis of grammar, used to reconstruct proto-Romance lexemes. This volume contains some 250 articles, written and revised by 40 specialists in Romance linguistics based in twelve countries, as well as a detailed presentation of the theoretical groundwork of this project.

Le DÉRom constitue la première tentative d’étymologisation du lexique héréditaire roman depuis le REW. Se détournant des pratiques reconnues en étymologie romane, le DÉRom adopte une méthode jugée jusque là peu rentable en raison du témoignage massif du latin écrit : la grammaire comparée-reconstruction. Le présent volume comporte 250 articles, précédés d’une présentation détaillée des prémisses théoriques du dictionnaire.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313482
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031244-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031348-2
ISBN:: 9783110394863
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Interkulturelle Behördenkommunikation

Eine gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung zu Verständigungsproblemen zwischen Migranten und Behördenmitarbeitern in Berlin und Buenos Aires

Katharina Rosenberg

Volume 380 in this series

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Communication between government authorities and immigrants is a topic of current relevance, posing difficulties for both sides. Drawing on 279 real conversations between immigrants and authorities in Berlin and Buenos Aires, this book discusses the causes of communicationproblems in an intercultural context and viable options for dealing with them.It isrelevant for both research and practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309539
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030822-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030953-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Group and Organizational Communication
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Planctus Magistrae Doloris

Volgarizzamento in antico veronese

Paolo Pellegrini

Volume 379 in this series

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This is a new critical and commented edition of the Planctus Magistrae Doloris, a vernacular old Veronese prose version of a Planctus Mariae that was copied in the second half of the 14th century. While a first transcription was published in 1891 by Gustav Oehlert, the current editor has succeeded in identifying the Latin version the vernacular text was drawn from, allowing him to clarify some difficult passages. Moreover, the author has established a stemma codicum of the three manuscripts that transmit the Latin text, illuminating the branch of the tradition on which the vernacular depends. This edition also contains a detailed linguistic commentary and glossary.

Il libro offre una nuova edizione critica e commentata del Planctus Magistrae Doloris, versione in antico volgare veronese di un Planctus Mariae, stesa nella seconda metà del XIV secolo. Mentre una prima trascrizione era stata pubblicata nel 1891 da Gustav Oehlert, il nuovo editore è riuscito a identificare il testo latino da cui il volgarizzamento discende, il che ha consentito anche di chiarirne alcuni passaggi problematici. Inoltre fornisce uno stemma codicum dei tre manoscritti che conservano il testo latino, identificando il ramo della tradizione testuale.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110307856
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028888-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030785-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Deutsche und französische Pressetexte zum Thema ‚Islam‘

Die Wirkungsmacht impliziter Argumentationsmuster

Daniela Wehrstein

Volume 378 in this series

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This analysis of German and French newspaper articles on Islam focuses not on what is stated directly, but instead on what is implied between the lines. While exposing implicit patterns of argumentation, the author explores the communicative strategies they elicit in the reader. Especially when considering a controversial and emotionally charged issue, it is worthwhile to look at underlying meaning in journalistic writing and at the ways in which it contributes to shaping a social discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110307757
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030262-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030775-7
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Public and Political Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Infinitivo y sujeto en portugués y español

Un estudio empírico de los infinitivos adverbiales con sujeto explícito

Clara Vanderschueren

Volume 377 in this series

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This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions.
The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of the infinitival subject, the syntactic-semantic autonomy of the clause, the verbal nature of the infinitive and clausal status of the construction. Second, Spanish and Portuguese infinitives with overt subjects are shown to have different properties: in Portuguese they are more complex and clause-like (having more prototypical subjects and infinitives closer to the verbal prototype), while Spanish infinitives with proper subjects have a simpler structure and are more nominal in nature.
More generally, this dissertation illustrates the flexible behaviour of the infinitive in different languages, even in two closely related languages.

El presente volumen se dedica a una de las construcciones más emblemáticas del iberorromance: los infinitivos adverbiales con sujetos explícitos, p.ej. al entrar Juan (esp), para eles verem o resultado (ptg). Desde una perspectiva cognitivo-funcional y con base en un amplio análisis empírico (de corpus y psicolingüístico), este trabajo trata de sacar en claro los factores que determinan el uso del infinitivo flexionado portugués y de infinitivos con sujetos nominativos explícitos en español y portugués.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110307733
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030195-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030773-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Portuguese
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Les connecteurs contenant des prépositions en français

Profils sémantiques et pragmatiques en synchronie et diachronie

Hélène Stoye

Volume 376 in this series

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This study undertakes a systematic analysis of French prepositional connectors. It explains the tendency of prepositions to form connectors and provides a model of complementary semantic and pragmatic categories covering the types, functions, and usage of connectors across a variety of genres.

L’approche «corpus driven» adoptée présente des éléments de réponse concernant l’affinité des prépositions quant à la formation de connecteurs et livre un modèle de catégories sémantiques et pragmatiques dont la jonction décrit avec précision les emplois et les règles d’usage des connecteurs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110301304
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030068-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030130-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Italoamericano

Italiano e inglese in contatto negli USA. Analisi diacronica variazionale e migrazionale

Elton Prifti

Volume 375 in this series

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The Italian migration to the United States spurred a particularly dynamic and multifarious language contact between Italian varieties and American English, which is the main object of study of this monograph. The Italian-American linguistic contact is characterized by a duration of more than 400 years, a wide geographic diffusion and a variable intensity. The author undertakes a diachronic variational analysis of its dynamics and results and provides a methodological innovation for contact studies. Foreword by Tullio De Mauro.

Tra le più note realtà linguistiche italiane all’estero spicca quella italoamericana, risultato dell’emigrazione degli italiani negli USA, contraddistinta da un dinamismo particolare. L’analisi diacronica variazionale e migrazionale delle dinamiche del contatto italoamericano rappresenta una novità metodologica nell’ambito della ricerca contattuale. L’intensità e l’estensione del fenomeno italoamericano nel tempo e nello spazio si rispecchiano nella composizione del variegato corpus di dati empirici. La prefazione è di Tullio de Mauro.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300352
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029758-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030035-2
ISBN:: 9783110482096
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Polifuncionalidad, polisemia y estrategia retórica

Los signos discursivos con base atributiva entre oralidad y escritura

Martin Hummel

Volume 374 in this series

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Polysemy and polyfunctionality are key components in the motivational structure of discourse markers. In this study the author investigates adjectival units that contribute to discourse formation in the spoken Spanish of Chile. The author shows that polyfunctionality drives not only polysemy but also grammaticalization. This grammaticalization is examined by the author in the field of tension between oral and written traditions.

La polisemia y la polifuncionalidad ocupan un papel importante en la estructura de motivación de los marcadores del discurso. El concepto de polifuncionalidad carece de una teorización adecuada y de un análisis sistemático de su interacción con la polisemia. En este sentido, se analizarán signos discursivos con base adjetival en datos orales del español chileno. Se comprueba que la polifuncionalidad actúa como motor no solo de la polisemia, sino también de la gramaticalización, enfocada desde sus relaciones dialécticas con las tradiciones oral y escrita.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110281248
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028118-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028124-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Kookkurrenz, Kontrast, Profil

Korpusinduzierte Studien zur lexikalisch-syntaktischen Kombinatorik französischer Substantive

Sascha Diwersy

Volume 373 in this series

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The book develops a corpus-induced approach to lexical semantics. Within the scope of an examination of the core claims of previous collocation studies, it embeds the notion of the “combinatory profile” in a methodological and analytical framework, providing case studies of lexical-syntactical combinatorics for substantives that indicate action disposition in French and German.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110280920
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027532-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028092-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Estudi de la llengua d’Ausiàs March a través de les col•locacions

Una aproximació semiautomàtica

Elena Sánchez López

Volume 372 in this series

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Since their first publication in 1593, the complexity and beauty of the verses by Valencian poet Ausiàs March have constituted a challenge for his readers. In this study we present an analysis of the poet’s language using an innovative methodology in the field of literary studies: the analysis of word combinations – collocations – with the support of ICT.

Based on a structurally/morphosyntactically-tagged, lemmatized corpus, we carried out an automatic extraction of the collocations in March’s work by means of a search engine optimized to work with the Old Catalan language. Thus, on the basis of the more frequent characteristic patterns of this language, we were able to obtain complete lists of collocations – in a broad sense, as defined by Sinclair in his first research studies. Subsequently, we used a control corpus in order to contextualize them and describe their usage, which allowed us to establish whether the frequent combinations found belong specifically to the author – as an intrinsic part of his style –, or to the general linguistic usage of his age – as part of established Old Catalan phraseology. Our research showed us the difficulties of studying the phraseology of old languages, as well as the productivity of the collocational analysis of an author’s language.

Des de la seua primera edició, el 1593, la bellesa dels versos del poeta valencià Ausiàs March han representat un repte per als lectors. En aquest estudi hem dut a terme una anàlisi del llenguatge d’aquest poeta mitjançant una metodologia innovadora pel que fa a la literatura: l’anàlisi de les combinacions de paraules – col·locacions – amb l’ajuda de les TIC. Entre els resultats que aporta aquesta anàlisi es troba la diferenciació entre col·locacions que formen part de l’estil de l’autor i col·locacions que són part de la llengua de l’època (fraseologia).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297690
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027519-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029769-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Verbale Obszönität bei Francisco de Quevedo

Frank Savelsberg

Volume 371 in this series

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Francisco de Quevedo’s satirical poetry is commonly viewed as grotesquely comical, a manifestation of what Bakhtin called the “Carnivalesque.” But not all of his satirical poetry fits this interpretation. In this study the author investigates the aggressivity and obscenity of Quevedo’s work, and particularly his personal invectives against Luis de Góngora, a poet of the previous generation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295955
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027464-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029595-5
ISBN:: 9783110377774
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Hispanic Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Romanische 'alba'- und 'somni'-Dichtungen

Grazyna Maria Bosy

Volume 370 in this series

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This study is a significant contribution to our understanding of the structures of lyric poetry in the Middle Ages. The book discusses the Tagelied and the often overlooked Romance dream poem, focusing on erotic variants and their poetic treatment. This anthology of Romance alba and somni poetry also includes the verse of troubadours and trouvères, Galician-Portuguese cantigas, Middle Latin selections, and texts from the scuola siciliana. Original German translations provide a basis for comparative analysis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110275148
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025946-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027514-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Les localisateurs dans les constructions existentielles

Approche comparée en espagnol, en français et en italien

Machteld Claire Meulleman

Volume 369 in this series

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This book presents a comparative study of the locative constituents used in existential constructions: ‘il y a’ in French, ‘hay’ in Spanish, and ‘c’è’ in Italian. The first part discusses their role from a morphological, discursive, semantic, and syntactic point of view. The second part analyzes the syntactic and discursive behavior of different semantic types of locatives in a large textual corpus.

Ce livre présente une analyse comparée des localisateurs utilisés dans les constructions existentielles: ‹il y a› (français), ‹hay› (espagnol) et ‹c’è› (italien). Il discute leur rôle d’un point de vue morphologique, discursif, sémantique et syntaxique et analyse le comportement syntaxique et discursif des différents types sémantiques de localisateurs dans un large corpus écrit. Il apparaît que ‹il y a› fonctionne plutôt comme un signe introducteur figé que comme un prédicat existentiel et cela dans une plus large mesure que ‹hay› et ‹c’è›.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263473
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026346-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026347-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Le chansonnier français de la Burgerbibliothek de Berne

Analyse et description du manuscrit et édition de 53 unica anonymes

Nicolaas Unlandt

Volume 368 in this series

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The Berne song book originates from the last third of the 13th century and is often considered marginal because of the Lorraine dialect and the corrupted delivery. Here it is analysed in depth for the first time. It includes a linguistic and material analysis of the manuscript followed by a new edition of 53 anonymous poems. Each poem is presented as a diplomatic transcription with critical editorial commentary. A synoptic index allows the reader to place the manuscript within the wider context of the written tradition of older northern French poetry.

Le chansonnier de Berne date du dernier quart du 13ième siècle. Souvent considéré marginal à cause de ses traditions corrompues et son dialecte lorrain, dans cette publication il fait l'objet d'une analyse approfondie. L'étude de la langue et des aspects physiques du manuscrit est suivie d'une nouvelle édition de 53 poésies anonymes. Pour chaque poésie, l'éditeur offre une transcription diplomatique et une édition critique commentée. Un index synoptique compte parmi les outils qui placent le manuscrit dans le contexte général de la tradition manuscrite de la poésie d'oïl.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263459
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026344-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026345-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Traducir la voz ficticia

Jenny Brumme

Volume 367 in this series

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In this study, the rendering of verbal expression in the translation of fictitious voices in literature is viewed in its entirety on the basis of original German and Spanish texts. Eight key works, including stories, novels, and plays from the last fifty years and their translations into other languages (English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and Rumanian), have been examined in order to deduce the means of verbal expression and the chain of variation elements that evoke and simulate orality in written texts.

Traducir la voz ficticia retoma el debate sobre los problemas que causa la traducción del habla de los personajes en la ficción literaria, partiendo de textos escritos originariamente en alemán y en español. El estudio adopta la perspectiva holística que ofrece la traducción de la oralidad para aplicarla a ocho obras clave publicadas durante las cinco últimas décadas y sus traducciones al inglés, francés, portugués, catalán y rumano. Este enfoque permite establecer cuáles son los principales elementos lingüísticos que se utilizan para simular la oralidad en el texto escrito.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263268
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026325-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026326-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Translation Studies
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Tempussemantik

Das französische Tempussystem ; eine integrative Analyse

Marie-Hélène Viguier

Volume 366 in this series

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The nature and semantic role of tenses remains controversial in current research despite important new insights. This study aims to clarify the questions raised with reference to the example of French. From a perspective based in integrative linguistics (IL), it develops a detailed new analysis of the French tense system. This analysis aims to achieve greater coherence and particularly includes uses beyond the indicative. The book is aimed at professional linguists and candidates for advanced examinations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261905
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026142-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026190-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Le costruzioni verbo-locativo in area romanza

Dallo spazio all'aspetto

Patrizia Cordin

Volume 365 in this series

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Verb-particle constructions are not only present in Germanic languages, but they are also found in Romance ones, particularly in some scarcely regulated varieties, such as old languages, dialects and substandard varieties. In this book a corpus of six hundreds of verbs+locative, taken from a Northern-Italian variety, is given and analyzed. The comparison with apparently analogous Germanic verb-particle constructions shows that the Romance ones are the result of an independent, gradual development, requiring ‑ in its final phase ‑ the expression of space (direction) and aspect (result) markers in the verb inflection.

Le costruzioni verbo+locativo, ben presenti nelle lingue germaniche, si trovano anche nelle lingue romanze, specialmente in varietà poco codificate (antiche, substandard e dialettali). In questo volume sono elencate e analizzate circa seicento costruzioni provenienti da dialetti parlati nell'Italia settentrionale, non lontano dal confine con l'Austria. Il confronto con le costruzioni apparentemente simili del tedesco mostra che il fenomeno nelle varietà romanze è risultato di un processo indipendente e graduale, che nella sua fase finale richiede l'espressione nella flessione verbale di marche di direzione e di aspetto.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261899
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026096-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026189-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Italienisch im Opernlibretto

Quantitative und qualitative Studien zu Lexik, Syntax und Stil

Anja Overbeck

Volume 364 in this series

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Does opera have its own specific language? Has libretto always been a single, clearly definable linguistic form? This study approaches the question from two different methodological directions, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses of lexis, syntax and style in selected Italian operatic libretti. By taking a primarily linguistic perspective the study fills a gap left by previous research. Up to now, libretto as a text form has been examined almost exclusively in literary, cultural or musical terms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110258349
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025832-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025834-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Lyrics and Libretti
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Guiron le Courtois

Roman arthurien en prose du XIIIe siècle

Venceslas Bubenicek

Volume 363 in this series

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The 13th-century prose novel Guiron le Courtois tells the story of the fathers of the Arthurian heroes. The third branch of the work that is presented here illustrates the development from the previous texts, Meliadus and Guiron, and offers valuable insights into the narrative techniques and literary tastes of the period around 1240.Prepared and presentedby Venceslas Bubenicek, this critical edition relies on four manuscripts.

Guiron le Courtois, roman en prose du XIIIe siècle, consacré à l’histoire des pères des héros arthuriens, se caractérise par une tradition manuscrite «éclatée». La «troisième branche» de l’œuvre, éditée présentement, permet de mesurer le degré d’avancement des deux précédentes, un Meliadus et un Guiron. Roman original, elle illustre l’évolution des techniques narratives et des goûts littéraires vers 1240.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110258271
ISBN:: 9783110256604
ISBN:: 9783110258271
ISBN:: 9783110394702
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Viaggio d’Oltremare e Libro di novelle e di bel parlar gentile

Edizione interpretativa

Anna Ciepielewska-Janoschka

Volume 362 in this series

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The codex Panciatichiano-Palatino 32 from the National Library in Florence is the oldest manuscript of the Novellino. It is the first Italian attempt to compile an organic collection of novellas, and it precedes the famous work by Boccaccio by several decades. This work represents a true-to-the original transcription of the entire manuscript with a detailed analysis of the abbreviations and graphic symbols.

Il codice Panciatichiano-Palatino 32 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze è il manoscritto più antico del famoso Novellino. Il florilegio è in verità il primo tentativo italiano di una raccolta organica di novelle antecedente una decina di anni la celebre opera boccacciana.
Il presente volume è la trascrizione fedele del codice Panciatichiano, frutto di uno studio paleografico che si avvale di un'analisi approfondita delle abbreviazioni e dei simbolismi grafici in esso contenuti.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252729
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025270-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025272-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 13th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Paleosardo

Le radici linguistiche della Sardegna neolitica

Eduardo Blasco Ferrer

Volume 361 in this series

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For scholars, paleo-Sardinian still presents many unanswered questions. This study illuminates for the first time the linguistic identity of the original inhabitants of the island by means of a systematic and structured analysis of field names in the archaic central area of Sardinia. Through a thorough comparison of the identified place name structures with respective lexicon entries of paleo-Basque and paleo-Iberian, the author can substantiate his hypothesis of an immigration from the ancient Iberian peninsula to Sardinia dating back to the Mesolithic period and the entire Neolithic period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110235609
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023559-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023560-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Onomastics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Entlehnung in der Kommunikation und im Sprachwandel

Theorie und Analysen zum Französischen

Esme Winter-Froemel

Volume 360 in this series

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This work analyzes current borrowings and integration of loan words in the French language and in other Romance languages. The studied phenomena are analyzed exclusively from the perspective of the speakers. The main aim is to elucidate the complexity of these processes ‒ how language undergoes change ‑ and to work out a model which is adequate with respect to communication theory. In particular, the study takes into account the occurrence of competing forms of loan words that differ from each other in their degree of integration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110235067
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023505-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023506-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Gualter del Hum – Gaiferos – Waltharius

Gustav Adolf Beckmann

Volume 359 in this series

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The title figure of Waltharius, an exclusive research subject of German Studies since the time of the Brothers Grimm, has become interesting for other philologies as well over the last 120 years, repeatedly in the form of “border crossings”. However, it has been impossible to reach a consensus even in the most elementary questions. Romance Studies is directly involved due to the problem complexes of Gualter del Hum, Gaiferos and the mother tongue of the Waltharius poet. Additional border crossings, however, are required to conduct new research on these problem complexes. This has become evident on the basis of new linguistic and onomastic observations in this book. Thus, almost an all-round monograph on one of the most multifaceted figures of medieval literature has evolved.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110234510
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023450-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023451-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Aufforderung im Französischen

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte sprachlicher Höflichkeit

Birgit Frank

Volume 358 in this series

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Linguistic history and cultural history are closely related. This is demonstrated in the study on the phenomenon of linguistic politeness in French requests, e.g. requesting, ordering, suggesting and advising. On a purely linguistic basis, there are indications of a development away from the concept of medieval politeness, which was primarily based on building up close relationships to a concept which among other things takes the personal freedom of the interlocutor into consideration. This change can be explained with general intellectual developments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110235586
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023557-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023558-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Die Rolle der norditalienischen Varietäten in der "Questione della lingua"

Eine diachrone Untersuchung zu Sprachbewusstsein, Sprachwissen und Sprachbewertung

Sandra Ellena

Volume 357 in this series

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Over a long period, Italian scholars discussed the norm of an Italian standard language. Finally, the language of Florentine poets of the 14th century emerged as winner in this competition of various models. Based on texts from the 13th to the 17th centuries, this book shows that in reflections on language norm, also Northern Italian dialects and common languages were frequently described, assessed and in part even defended as counter-model to the Tuscan language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252668
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025265-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025266-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Policy and Planning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Le roman de Renart

Edité d'après le manuscrit 0 (f. fr. 12583)

Aurélie Barre

Volume 356 in this series

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This book provides a critical edition of the 'O' manuscript (beginning of the 14th century) of the Roman de Renart. It is supplemented by a varia lectio which takes into account the different readings of the most important 'branches' or short texts of the Roman de Renart. The edition includes an introduction of the work from the perspective of literary studies and philology and explores in detail the main linguistic characteristics of the manuscript. Furthermore, the introduction emphasizes the adaptability within the Renart tradition and documents the creativity of a scribe who added some verses of his own to the text he copied.

L'édition du manuscrit O du Roman de Renart (début XIVe siècle environ) est une édition critique: l'établissement du texte est augmenté d'une varia lectio comparant les différentes leçons manuscrites des principales branches du Roman de Renart. Cette édition s'accompagne d'une introduction linguistique et littéraire: elle détaille les principales carac-téristiques de la langue du manuscrit; elle s'attache en outre à mettre au jour la mouvance du texte renardien et la créativité d'un copiste qui prolonge le texte d'un certain nombre de vers originaux.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110233438
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023342-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023343-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Diskursdeixis im Französischen

Eine korpusbasierte Studie zu Semantik und Pragmatik diskursdeiktischer Verweise

Christiane Maaß

Volume 355 in this series

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This study explores discourse deixis, a topic which has thus far received little attention in empirical research. Discourse deixis means the reference to parts or aspects of the ongoing discourse and/or text. Common examples are "see above" or "as I mentioned before". The approach of this study is corpus-based, that is, it identifies and classifies all discourse-deictic references in the corpora of various kinds of texts. From the evidence thus gained a new theory of discourse deixis is derived.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231564
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023155-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023156-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Ponctuation et syntaxe dans la langue française médiévale

Étude d'un corpus de chartes originales écrites à Liège entre 1236 et 1291

Nicolas Mazziotta

Volume 354 in this series

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Based on a corpus of official documents (more than 60,000 words), this study is the first to answer the question about the interdependence of punctuation and syntax in Old French. Working from theoretical reflections and detailed statistical evaluations, the author demonstrates the way in which the presence and type of punctuation were bound up with the syntactic context.

Basée sur un corpus de chartes (plus de 60000 mots), l'étude répond pour la première fois à la question «Comment la ponctuation interagit-elle avec la syntaxe dans la langue française médiévale?». Partant d'une réflexion théorique et se fondant sur des dépouillements statistiques détaillés, l'auteur montre comment la présence et la forme de la ponctuation étaient liées au contexte syntaxique.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231069
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023105-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023106-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Writing Systems and Orthography
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Chanson

Son histoire et sa famille dans les dictionnaires de langue française. Étude lexicale, théorique et historique

Jean-Nicolas de Surmont

Volume 353 in this series

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The terminology of genres of song has aroused the interest of musicologists, medievalists, and ethnomusicologists who hope with it to achieve a better understanding of their fields. The analysis presented here of the French vocabulary connected with chanson starts from a literary genre referred to by the word chanson. A corpus of 500 dictionaries and 900 studies and essays is used to examine the word chanson and its associated word family from their beginnings in Old French up to the modern French language.

La terminologie des genres chansonniers a suscité l’intérêt des musicologues, médiévistes, ethnomusicologues soucieux d’une meilleure compréhension de la production chansonnière. L’étude du vocabulaire chansonnier français met en relief l’existence d’un genre littéraire plus ou moins bref dénommé par le mot chanson. C’est du mot chanson et de sa famille lexicale, depuis ses origines en ancien français jusqu’à nos jours en français moderne, dont il sera question. Entre 450 et 500 dictionnaires de langue et thématique et 900 œuvres littéraires (essais sur la chanson, etc.) constituent le corpus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971530
ISBN:: 978-3-484-52353-1
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97153-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: French
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book Ahead of Publication 2010

Traços de mudança e de permanência em editoriais de jornais pernambucanos

Da forma ao sentido

Valeria Severina Gomes

Volume 352 in this series

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This book deals with the Press in Brazil in its historical, social and cultural context, with particular attention being paid to the strategies of printed written communication. The author reconstructs the constellation of texts into which the discursive tradition of the editorial is integrated. The emphasis is placed on the description of the features of both linguistic and extra-linguistic change and continuity which characterise leading articles published in Brazilian Portuguese in the 19th century so that the relationship between the historicity of the language and the text is impressed on the reader.

Este livro aborda as configurações históricas, sociais e culturais da imprensa; acompanha as práticas, tendências e estratégias da comunicação impressa; reconstitui a constelação de textos na qual o editorial está inserido; e descreve os traços de mudança e de permanência em termos lingüísticos e extralingüísticos na composição do editorial e no português brasileiro do século XIX, estabelecendo, assim, a relação entre a historicidade da língua e do texto.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783484523524
ISBN:: 9783484523524
ISBN:: 9783484971493
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Portuguese
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Public and Political Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2009

Nomi e volti della paura nelle valli dell'Adda e della Mera

Remo Bracchi

Volume 351 in this series

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Linguistic interdiction, with its imposition of avoiding evocative words of fearful emotions, is the cause of the pulverization of lexicon. Tracing the multiplication of referents, the diverse sectors within which prohibitions of various nature have operated in the past (and often continue to operate) are identified, in most cases in an unsuspected manner: the religious senti-ments, the wonder and fear in front of immense atmospheric and geological phenomena, the mysterious behaviour of many insects and animals, the sudden and unexplainable emergence of pathological and sickly state of mind, sexuality, death.

Ampia rassegna attraverso lo spazio e il tempo, sulle labili tracce della frammentazione onomasiologica provocata dall'interdizione linguistica, di tutte quelle realtà e sensazioni che si rivelano colpite dal divieto di pronunciarle con il loro vero nome, perché non si sentano chiamate in causa e, di conseguenza, si rendano presenti. Prendendo lo spunto dal contesto geografico dei bacini dell'Adda e della Mera, il raggio di comparazione linguistica ed etnografica viene via via allargato a tutti i dialetti ita-liani e alle principali lingue europee.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971271
ISBN:: 978-3-484-52351-7