From particular to general linguistics : selected essays 1965-1978 / by Yakov Malkiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-1998.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 3.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance philology.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (682 p.)

Other Title:

Title on half t.p.: From general to particular linguistics

From general to particular linguistics.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the great champion of etymology in linguistics as evidenced by several of the selected essays in From Particular to General Lingusitics. But here Malkiel also moves in several other subfields of linguistics and proves that whatever the subject of discussion is, it is characterized by a tenaciously co

Contents:

FROM GENERAL TO PARTICULAR LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; GUIDE TO ABBREVIATIONS; FROM PARTICULAR TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS; INTRODUCTION; A. GENETIC LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AS A GENETIC SCIENCE; B. HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS; HISTORY AND HISTORIES OF LINGUISTICS; C. CLUES AS TO DATING; RANGE OF VARIATION AS A CLUE TO DATING; D. CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE; FACTORS IN THE UNITY OF ROMANIA; E. DIFFUSION; REVIEW ARTICLE; F. LANGUAGE VS. THE REAL WORLD; GENDER, SEX, AND SIZE, AS REFLECTED IN THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES

G. THE SOCIAL COMPONENT OF CHANGETHE SOCIAL MATRIX OF PALAEO-ROMANCE POSTVERBAL NOUNS; H. LEXICAL INDEPENDENCE VS. GRAMMATICAL CONSTRAINT; EACH WORD HAS A HISTORY OF ITS OWN; I. MULTIPLE CAUSATION; MULTI-CONDITIONED SOUND CHANGE AND THE IMPACT OF MORPHOLOGY ON PHONOLOGY; MULTIPLE VERSUS SIMPLE CAUSATION IN LINGUISTIC CHANGE; THE FIVE SOURCES OF EPENTHETIC /J/ IN WESTERN HISPANO-ROMANCE:; ON HIERARCHIZING THE COMPONENTS OF MULTIPLE CAUSATION; J. ACCENTOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY; CONFLICTING PROSODIC INFERENCES FROM ASCOLI'S AND DARMESTETER'S LAWS?; ETIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN ROMANCE DIACHRONIC PHONOLOGY

K. AFHXAL DERIVATIONONE CHARACTERISTIC DERIVATIONAL SUFFIX OF LITERARY ITALIAN: -(t)aggine; THE DOUBLE AFFIXATION IN OLD FRENCH GENS-ES-OR, BEL-EZ-OR, OLD PROVENÇAL BEL-AZ-OR; THE RISE OF THE NOMINAL AUGMENTS IN ROMANCE GRAECO-LATIN AND TUSCAN CLUES TO THE PREHISTORY OF HISPANO-ROMANCE; L.ETYMOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION OF ORIGINAND JUSTIFICATION OF SPREAD IN ETYMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY ETYMOLOGIES: THE THREE LEXICAL KERNELS OF HISPANIC SAÑA, ENSAÑAR, SAÑUDO; ETYMOLOGY AND MODERN LINGUISTICS

THE INTERLOCKING OF ETYMOLOGY AND HISTORICAL GRAMMAR(EXEMPLIFIED WITH THE ANALYSIS OF SPANISH DESLEIR)NOTES CONTACTS BETWEEN BLASPHEMARE AND AESTIMARE; SUPPLEMENT; INDEXOF NAMES; SELECTIVE INDEX OF KEY TERMS

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

90-272-8315-X

1-283-22251-5

9786613222510

OCLC:

742333651