The Diachrony of Written Language Contact : A Contrastive Approach / Nikolaos Lavidas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavidas, Nikolaos, author.

Series:

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 15.

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical and Comparative.

Languages and Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Other Title:

A Contrastive Approach

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Summary:

Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the history of translation as related to grammatical changes in English and Greek in a contrastive way. In this respect, emphasis is placed on the analysis of diachronic retranslations: the book examines translations from earlier periods of English and Greek in relation to various grammatical characteristics of these languages in different periods and in comparison to non-translated texts.

Contents:

Intro

‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎Figures and Tables

‎Figures

‎Tables

‎Part 1. Written Language Contact and Grammatical Change in English and Greek

‎Chapter 1. Written Language Contact and Translations

‎1.1. Introduction

‎1.2. Terminology of Language Contact

‎1.3. Written Language Contact

‎1.3.1. Translations and Diachronic Linguistics. Translations as a Source of Change and as Evidence of Change

‎1.3.2. Translations as a Typical Example of Written Language Contact

‎Chapter 2. Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change: Landmarks in the Development of Early Translations

‎2.1. Introduction

‎2.2. Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change in English

‎2.2.1. Biblical vs. Non-biblical Translations in the History of English

‎2.2.2. Written Contact and Grammatical Change vs. Translation Effects in the History of English

‎2.2.3. The Role of Retranslations in Diachronic Linguistic Studies

‎2.3. Greek in Written Contact: History of Early Translations

‎2.3.1. Introduction. Translations in the History of Greek

‎2.3.2. History of Translation and Language History: Later Developments in the Diachrony of Greek

‎2.3.3. Greek Intralingual Translations and Their Characteristics

‎2.3.4. The Case of Biblical Greek

‎2.3.5. Biblical Translations into Later Greek

‎Chapter 3. Biblical Translations

‎3.1. The Corpus of Biblical Translations: Source of Evidence of Grammatical Change

‎3.1.1. Biblical Translations as a Corpus

‎3.1.2. Biblical Translations: The Parameter of Intralingual Translations

‎3.2. Biblical Translations as Factor of Grammatical Change

‎3.3. English Biblical Translations: Examples of Corpus-Based Surveys

‎Chapter 4. Intralingual Translations: Two Directions-to the Past or to the Present

‎4.1. Introduction.

‎4.2. Intralingual Translations as Evidence of Grammatical Change

‎4.3. Types of Greek Intralingual Translations

‎4.4. Retranslations and Their Relation to Intralingual Translations

‎Chapter 5. Examples of Studies on Grammatical Change in English through Translations

‎5.1. Introduction

‎5.2. Translations and Multilingualism in the History of English

‎5.3. Grammatical Characteristics and the Effect of Other Languages in the Diachrony of English

‎Chapter 6. From Syntactic Diglossia and Universal Bilingualism to What Diachronic Translations Can Tell Us about Grammatical Multiglossia

‎6.1. A Theoretical Proposal: Grammatical Multiglossia

‎6.2. Historical Grammatical Multiglossia, L2 and Bilingualism

‎6.3. Historical Grammatical Multiglossia and Ferguson's Diglossia

‎6.4. Historical Grammatical Multiglossia as Related to (Semi-)natural Change

‎Part 2. Data: English and Greek Translations and Grammatical Change

‎Chapter 7. English Data

‎7.1. Introduction

‎7.2. Voice, Argument Structure and Transitivity in English Biblical Diachronic Retranslations

‎7.2.1. English Diachronic (Re)translations of the New Testament

‎7.3. Voice and Transitivity in English Diachronic Biblical vs. Non-biblical Translations

‎7.3.1. Corpus Survey

‎7.4. English Biblical vs. Non-biblical Diachronic Retranslations: Borrowing of Word-Formation Morphology

‎7.4.1. Corpus Survey

‎7.4.2. Concluding Remarks

‎Chapter 8. Greek Data

‎8.1. Greek Diachronic Retranslations of the New Testament: Voice and Argument Structure

‎8.1.1. Data

‎8.2. Greek Diachronic Retranslations: Phrase Matching Approach

‎8.2.1. Qualitative and data-driven analysis. Phrase matching approach

‎8.2.2. Data

‎8.3. Greek vs. English Data: An Approach to the Diachrony of Written Language Contact

‎Chapter 9. Conclusion.

‎Appendix 1. Further Information on the Texts of the Corpus

‎Appendix 2. (i) The Corpus of Translations of Biblical Texts

(ii) The Corpus of Translations of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae

‎References

‎Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lavidas, Nikolaos The Diachrony of Written Language Contact

ISBN:

9789004503564

9004503560

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004503564 DOI