The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography

2023-09-30
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography

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  • Author: Marco Condorelli
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108801412
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1075

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.

Standardising English Spelling

2022-04-07
Standardising English Spelling

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  • Author: Marco Condorelli
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009090747
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English. This pioneering book explores new avenues of investigation into spelling development by looking at the Early Modern English period, when irregular features across graphemes became standardised. It traces the development of the English spelling system through a number of 'competing' standards, raising questions about the meaning of 'standardisation'. It introduces a new model for the analysis of large-scale graphemic developments from a diachronic perspective, and provides a new empirical method geared specifically to the study of spelling standardisation between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The method is applied to four interconnected case studies, focusing on the standardisation of positional spellings, i and y, etymological spelling and vowel diacritic spelling. This book is essential reading for researchers of writing systems and the history of English.

The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics

2024-05-31
The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics

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  • Author: Danko Šipka
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108967906
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1177

The linguistic study of the Slavic language family, with its rich syntactic and phonological structures, complex writing systems, and diverse socio-historical context, is a rapidly growing research area. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook provides a systematic review of cutting-edge research in Slavic linguistics. It covers phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexicology, and sociolinguistics, and presents multiple theoretical perspectives, including synchronic and diachronic. Each chapter addresses a particular linguistic feature pertinent to Slavic languages, and covers the development of the feature from Proto-Slavic to present-day Slavic languages, the main findings in historical and ongoing research devoted to the feature, and a summary of the current state of the art in the field and what the directions of future research will be. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in theoretical linguistics, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics and Slavic/East European Studies.

The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition

2023-07-27
The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Jennifer Cabrelli
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108962742
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1009

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing. It features 30 approachable chapters covering topics such as multilingual language acquisition, education, language maintenance and language loss, multilingual code-switching, ageing in the multilingual brain, and many more. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of the state of the art in its topic, while offering comprehensive access to the specialized literature, through carefully curated citations. It also serves as a methodological resource for researchers in the field, offering chapters on methods such as case studies, corpora, artificial language systems or statistical modelling of multilingual data.

Introducing Historical Orthography

2022-09-22
Introducing Historical Orthography

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  • Author: Marco Condorelli
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009100731
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Historical orthography - the study of how writing systems have changed over time - is a rapidly growing area of historical linguistics. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to this exciting focus of research. Written in an engaging and accessible way, it surveys the purposes and methods of this field, and how it has developed as a discipline over time. The volume also discusses the various levels of analysis that historical orthography can carry out, as well as key historical orthographic processes, such as standardization and language change. It covers a range of non-western and western languages, including English, in order to discuss the breadth of typological issues that can arise in the documentation of writing systems. The book also establishes links between orthography and a range of other related disciplines, a quality which makes it an essential resource for advanced students of orthography and writing systems, and historical linguistics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

2011-03-24
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

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  • Author: Peter K. Austin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 113950083X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 581

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. The volume is relevant not only to researchers in language endangerment, language shift and language death, but to anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the world. It is accessible both to specialists and non-specialists: researchers will find cutting-edge contributions from acknowledged experts in their fields, while students, activists and other interested readers will find a wealth of readable yet thorough and up-to-date information.

The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

2022-08-18
The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

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  • Author: Chu-Ren Huang
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108349668
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 883

The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and its diverse socio-historical background, is already a long-established and vast research area. With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. Chapters are divided into four thematic areas: writing systems and the neuro-cognitive processing of Chinese, morpho-lexical structures, phonetic and phonological characteristics, and issues in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. By following a context-driven approach, it shows how theoretical issues in Chinese linguistics can be resolved with empirical evidence and argumentation, and provides a range of different perspectives. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies involving the Chinese language. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the fascinating field of Chinese linguistics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

2017-03-09
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

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  • Author: Adam Ledgeway
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316720586
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1321

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy

2012-03
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy

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  • Author: Bernard Spolsky
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 768

This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.

The Sociopragmatics of Stance

2021-11-15
The Sociopragmatics of Stance

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  • Author: Peter J. Grund
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027258236
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem (Massachusetts) in 1692–1693, it showcases how witnesses and the recorders of their ca. 450 depositions deployed linguistic features to signal the evaluation of experiences with alleged witchcraft, the intensification of those experiences, and the sources of the witnesses’ knowledge. The resulting stance profiles for groups of depositions, witnesses, and recorders highlight varying strategies of claiming, supporting, and boosting the importance of the evidence and the role of the witnesses within the community of practice. With its innovative focus on sociopragmatic variation in a historical community, the book demonstrates the essential contribution of synchronic-historical research to the analysis, description, and theorization of stance and historical English more broadly.