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Textual parameters in older languages / edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reneen, Lene Schsler.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics (11th : 1993 : University of California, Los Angeles)
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 195.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 195
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (467 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub., c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid generalizations; recognizing the influence of textual parameters, conversely, raises a myriad of issues for the practice and theory of historical linguistics.The 12 essays in this collection apply this approach in analyses of anaphora, non-finite verbal forms, particles, punctuation, word order and other phenomena in a wide range of languages including Ancient Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin, Heian Japanese, Medieval Greek, Old French, Old Russian, Middle English, and Modern Danish. An in-depth introduction by the editors lays out the goals of the textual parameters approach, and considers the methodological and theoretical consequences of the evidence presented in the book as a whole.
- Contents:
- TEXTUAL PARAMETERS IN OLDER LANGUAGES
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- On Textual Parameters and Older Languages
- Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On Working with Older Languages
- The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI
- Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin
- The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The Case of Anon
- Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit
- Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil
- Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese
- Robert Keayne's Notebooks: A Verbatim Record of Spoken English in Early Boston?
- Textual Authenticity: Evidence from Medieval Greek
- Parameters Underlying Punctuation in Older Russian Texts
- The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A Case Study in Language Contact and Language Change
- A la Recherche du Word Order Not Quite Perdu: A methodological progress report
- Index of Languages
- Index of Subjects
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
- Notes:
- Includes revised versions of papers originally presented at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612163739
- 9781282163737
- 1282163736
- 9789027299604
- 9027299609
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