Historical Issues in Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European Languages. Zagadnienia historyczne w chamito-semickich i indoeuropejskich językach
Historical Issues in Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European Languages. Zagadnienia historyczne w chamito-semickich i indoeuropejskich językach
Contributor(s): Ireneusz Kida (Editor)
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The volume entitled Historical Issues in Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European languages is a collection of nine articles devoted above all to selected problems associated with the influence of Hamito-Semitic languages on certain Indo-European languages in the remote past. The articles also discuss other subjects associated with general linguistics (phonology, dialectology, linguistic shift and magic.
Series: Językoznawstwo
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8012-949-8
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-8012-948-1
- Page Count: 134
- Publication Year: 2018
- Language: English, Polish
Celtic influence and genitive resumptives
Celtic influence and genitive resumptives
(Celtic influence and genitive resumptives)
- Author(s):Artur Bartnik
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:13-24
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:resumption; genitive; Celtic languages
- Summary/Abstract:This paper deals with resumptive pronouns in the genitive case in relative clauses and the influence that might be exerted upon these structures by Celtic languages. It is claimed that some arguments put forward in favor of possible Celtic influence upon resumptives (Roma 2007) need re-examination and the Celtic hypothesis in resumption should be treated with reserve. Specifically, it will be shown that neither geographical, chronological nor syntactic factors point unambiguously to Celtic influence. Despite some apparent similarities in the relativization systems of Early English and Celtic such as the use of personal pronouns as resumptives we need more evidence to claim that Celtic affected therelative system in the history of English.
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Hamito-Semitic features in Celtic languages
Hamito-Semitic features in Celtic languages
(Hamito-Semitic features in Celtic languages)
- Author(s):Ireneusz Kida
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:25-36
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Hamito-Semitic; influence; Celtic; word order
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of the paper is to present the most known Hamito-Semitic features that have been identified in Celtic languages. It has long been known that at some time of the history of Celtic languages they entered into contact with Hamito-Semitic languages, which makes them different from other Indo-European languages. Special attention in the paper will be paid to word order, consonantal mutations, lack of the verb ‘to have’ and of the present participle, inflected prepositions, status constructus, autonomous verb forms and the Welsh Subject Rule.
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Internal structure of liquids: The history of liquid vocalization in English
Internal structure of liquids: The history of liquid vocalization in English
(Internal structure of liquids: The history of liquid vocalization in English)
- Author(s):Artur Kijak
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:37-56
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:liquids; diphthongization; vocalization
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of the paper is twofold: to explain the process of liquid vocalization in the history of English and some accompanying vocalic developments and to explore the internal structure of liquids taking part in the process. In order to achieve the aim, we look at some historical processes in which the liquids are the leading actors. Thus, we discuss the historical liquid vocalization together with vowel developments in the pre-liquid position such as raising, lowering, lengthening or diphthongization. Moreover, we address the questionsconcerning the distribution and representation of liquids and we look at the interaction of liquids with the preceding vowels. Finally, we provide the explanation for both the inconsistent behavior of the lateral in that it has survived only in certain clusters and the intimate relationship between the context and the process of liquid vocalization.
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Regional, social, and stylistic variation in American English pronunciation
Regional, social, and stylistic variation in American English pronunciation
(Regional, social, and stylistic variation in American English pronunciation)
- Author(s):Adam Pluszczyk
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:57-72
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:regional and social dialects; variation; variety; pronunciation; American English
- Summary/Abstract:The purpose of this article is to present variation in American English pronunciation with respect to such factors as region, sex, age, social status, style, and context. We will select a few variables and analyze them in terms of their possible realizations – so called variants or candidates. With regard to the occurrence of variant realizations of a particular variable, it is crucial to stress that our analysis is not solely linguistically-conditioned since it also encompasses social and contextual factors which definitely contribute to the variation. The analysis from the purely linguistic point of view would be either erroneous or at least incomplete and thus unreliable. Therefore, the variation will be analyzed linguistically, socially, and contextually. We will observe the occurrence of at least two (or more) variants of particular variables (linguistically) and analyze their evaluationas prestigious or substandard (socially, contextually). In other words, we will indicate that with the emergence of the variants, one cannot avoid making judgments about the alleged betterness or worseness of either of them.
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Etymologia polskich nazw postaci ludzkich rodzaju żeńskiego i męskiego parających się magią
Etymologia polskich nazw postaci ludzkich rodzaju żeńskiego i męskiego parających się magią
(Etymologia polskich nazw postaci ludzkich rodzaju żeńskiego i męskiego parających się magią)
- Author(s):Monika Grotek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:75-84
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:etymology; the Polish language; magic; gender
- Summary/Abstract:The article is a compilation of descriptions of the features of female and male human figures who practice magic. The author explains the etymology of the nomenclature used in reference to these features in the Polish language. The main object of interest in the analysis of the entries which describe the figures in various etymological dictionaries of the Polish language are semantic elements featured in their etyma which enable us to trace the differences and the similarities in the manner in which the peculiar features of women and men who engage in communion with the supernatural world are perceived.
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Analiza diachroniczna określeń zapominania w językach ałtajskich
Analiza diachroniczna określeń zapominania w językach ałtajskich
(Analiza diachroniczna określeń zapominania w językach ałtajskich)
- Author(s):Kamil Krakowiecki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:85-94
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:diachronic linguistics; etymological databases; Altaic languages; Indo-European languages
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the phonological research in the development of roots which realise the concept of forgetting from the Proto-Altaic language to the following languages: Proto-Mongolian, Proto-Turkish and Proto-Tungusic. The data which was used is derived from etymological databases. There is a brief overview of the geography and the history of Altaic languages which is followed by a comprehensive analysis of the previously mentioned changes in the bulk of the text. In order to fulfil this goal one introduced the instrument of a phonetic profile. An important element of the article has to do with a presentation of a potential affinity of the roots in question with Proto-Indo-European roots. Eventually the author presents the potential directions of future research.
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Gramatykalizacja nazw części ciała a określanie przestrzeni w języku polskim
Gramatykalizacja nazw części ciała a określanie przestrzeni w języku polskim
(Gramatykalizacja nazw części ciała a określanie przestrzeni w języku polskim)
- Author(s):Andrzej M. Łęcki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:95-102
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:grammaticalisation; parts of the body; spatial orientation; the Polish language
- Summary/Abstract:The main purpose of this work is to present the development of lexemes which refer to various parts of the body in the Polish language used in order to determine spatial relations in the context of other, non-cognate language. Section 1 contains an overview of the mechanisms and the most important changes which are strictly associated with process of the grammaticalisation of expressions which refer to parts of the body, whereas Section 2 constitutes a description and an analysis of expressions which refer to various parts of the body in the Polish language juxtaposed with analogous expressions in other languages which were researched by Svorou (1933) and by Heine et al. (1991).
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Swoistości języków semickich
Swoistości języków semickich
(Swoistości języków semickich)
- Author(s):Kamilla Termińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:103-122
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:root; vocabulary; polysemanticity; semantic and morphological categories; phonology; the alphabet; tropics
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the following features of Semitic languages: triconsonality of the root and its capability of constituting meanings – images whose elements are concretised in lexical formations, the peculiar semantisation of morphological categories (causativum, intensivum), the debatable question of the temporalisation of an utterance. One indicated inter alia the problems of the broken plural, the so-called status constructus, the polisemanticity of certain morphemes, suffixed personal pronouns, weak roots and the morphological consequences of phonological departures from the regularity in their structure. As far as the sound-related and phonological layer is concerned, the languages in question are characterised inter alia by a considerable number of laryngeals and pharyngeals, the presence of semivowels and the polyfunctionality of gemination. One is struck by the culturally conditioned ways of reading and interpreting a text which are deeply rooted in mythical and symbolic layers.
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Zapożyczenia semickie w mykeńskich nazwach produktów spożywczych
Zapożyczenia semickie w mykeńskich nazwach produktów spożywczych
(Zapożyczenia semickie w mykeńskich nazwach produktów spożywczych)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Zadka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
- Page Range:123-131
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:the Linear B script; the Mycenaean dialect; Semitic borrowings; food products
- Summary/Abstract:Semitic borrowings in the Greek language are attested already in the oldest layer of the development of this language which is familiar to us – the Mycenaean dialect. A result of contact between the inhabitants of Crete and continental Greece with the Middle East in the Bronze Age, they are associated with various areas of human endeavour – metallurgy, administration and the economy. The tablets with the Linear B script also feature the names of food products of Semitic etymology. The purpose of this article is to examine the relation between the number of Semitic words and the bulk of Mycenaean culinary vocabulary and to examine the varieties of referents whose names were borrowed from Semitic languages. The proportions between them may furnish us with a better understanding of the nature of Mycenaean-Semitic contacts in the second millennium BC.
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