Markedness and Language Change (eBook)

The Romani Sample

Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras (Autoren)

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2006
498 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110197594 (ISBN)

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The book challenges the conventional notion of Markedness – a very central albeit controversial concept in linguistic theory. The authors investigate the structural representation of a selection of semantic categories in a sample of some 100 varieties of Romani, which have been separated and dispersed throughout Europe during the past six centuries. Generalizations are made on the kind of structural changes that are attested in the sample, and the extent to which certain semantic-conceptual values are found to be 'marked' or 'unmarked', following a series of criteria, and a new, 'dynamic' model of Markedness is proposed. Special attention is given to grammatical borrowing and the role of language contact in language change.

Viktor Elšik teaches at the Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhalt

Frontmatter 1
Contents 9
Chapter 1 Introduction: Markedness and asymmetry in language 25
Chapter 2 The Markedness Hypothesis 31
Chapter 3 Toward a communication-based model of asymmetry in language 52
Chapter 4 The sample: Methodological considerations 72
Chapter 5 Early Romani 92
Chapter 6 Number 109
Chapter 7 Person 126
Chapter 8 Gender 162
Chapter 9 Degree 169
Chapter 10 Negation 180
Chapter 11 Cardinality 186
Chapter 12 Discreteness 197
Chapter 13 Tense, aspect, and mood 212
Chapter 14 Modality 227
Chapter 15 Transitivity 235
Chapter 16 Case and case roles 242
Chapter 17 Localisation 263
Chapter 18 Orientation 295
Chapter 19 Indefiniteness 305
Chapter 20 Ontological category 319
Chapter 21 Lexicality 336
Chapter 22 Associativity 346
Chapter 23 Chronological compartmentalisation 348
Chapter 24 Criteria for asymmetry and their distribution across categories 358
Chapter 25 Patterns of asymmetry 371
Chapter 26 Conceptual motivations for asymmetry 401
Chapter 27 Concluding remarks 430
Backmatter 434

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
• Reihe/Serie: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w ill., Numerous tab. 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: language change • Markedness • Markiertheit • Romani • Romani language • Romani language; Markedness; Language Change • Sprachwandel
• ISBN-13: 9783110197594 / 9783110197594