Manual of Catalan Linguistics / edited by Jens Lüdtke, Joan A. Argenter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Argenter, Joan A., editor.

Lüdtke, Jens, editor.

Series:

Manuals of romance linguistics ; 25.

Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catalan language--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Catalan language.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 recurso electrónico (796 p.)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2020

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This manual is intended to fill a gap in the area of Romance studies. There is no introduction available so far that broadly covers the field of Catalan linguistics, neither in Catalan nor in any other language. The work deals with the language spoken in Catalonia and Andorra, the Balearic Islands, the region of Valencia, Northern Catalonia and the town of l'Alguer in Sardinia. Besides introducing the ideologies of language and nation and the history of Catalan linguistics, the manual is divided into separate parts embracing the description – grammar, lexicon, variation and varieties – and the history of the language since the early medieval period to the present day. It also covers its current social and political situation in the new local and global contexts. The main emphasis is placed on modern Catalan. The manual is designed as a companion for students of Catalan, while also introducing specialists of other languages into this field, in particular scholars of Romance languages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Manuals of Romance Linguistics

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

0. Introduction

1. Languages, Cultures, Nations: A History of Europe

2. History of Catalan Linguistics

3. Spelling

4. Phonology, Phonetics, Intonation

5.1 Word Classes, Inflectional Categories and Paradigms

5.2 The Simple Sentence

5.3 The Complex Sentence

5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences

5.5 Lexicalized Syntax: Phraseology

6. Pragmatics and Text Linguistics

7.1 General Lexicon

7.2 Word-Formation

8.1 Dialects

8.2 Social and Functional Variation in Catalan

9. Language Corpora

10. Early Medieval Catalan

11. The Growth and Expansion of Catalan (1213–1516)

12. The Origins of Modern Catalan: Cultural and Linguistic Evolution

13. Renaixença

14.1 The Language Reform, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Work of Pompeu Fabra

14.2 From Pompeu Fabra to the Present Day: Language Change, Hindrance to Corpus and Status Planning

15 .Onomastics: Personal Names and Place Names

16. Translation

17. Languages in Contact: A Sociocultural Approach

18. Language Demography

19. Language Law and Language Policies

20. Teaching and Learning of Catalan

21. Catalan in the Mass Media: The Rise of Stylebooks

22. Terminology and Neology

23. Language Ideologies in Society

24. Migration in Catalonia: Language and Diversity in the Global Era

25. Catalan Worldwide

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110448313

3110448319

9783110450408

3110450402

OCLC:

1152068449