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"This volume gathers together contributions on selected linguistic aspects of Postclassical Greek, as well as offering a general introduction to the language of this period. It aims at representing interdisciplinary research on Postclassical Greek from such subdisciplines as corpus analysis, papyrology and paleography, sociolinguistics, multilingualism and historical linguistics." --Back cover.
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This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations.
Historical & comparative linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology --- Classification
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This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.
Baltic languages. --- Language and languages. --- Linguistics. --- Baltic languages --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Research --- Research. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Balto-Slavic languages --- Typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Indo-European languages --- Classification --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Langues baltes --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Recherche --- Baltic Languages. --- Morphosyntax. --- Phonology. --- Typology.
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