30.3401, Books: Language Contact in Europe: Drinka

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3401. Tue Sep 10 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3401, Books: Language Contact in Europe: Drinka

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburn at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:53:09
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language Contact in Europe: Drinka

 


Title: Language Contact in Europe 
Subtitle: The Periphrastic Perfect through History 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/language-contact-europe-periphrastic-perfect-through-history?format=PB 


Author: Bridget Drinka

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731911 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 37.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731911 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108731911 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 35.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role
of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it
traces the spread of the periphrastic perfect across Europe over the last
2,500 years, illustrating at each stage the micro-responses of speakers and
communities to macro-historical pressures. Among the key forces claimed to be
responsible for normative innovations in both eastern and western Europe is
'roofing' - the superstratal influence of Greek and Latin on languages under
the influence of Greek Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism respectively. The
author provides a new interpretation of the notion of 'sprachbund', presenting
the model of a three-dimensional stratified convergence zone, and applies this
model to her analysis of the have and be perfects within the Charlemagne
sprachbund. The book also tackles broader theoretical issues, for example,
demonstrating that the perfect tense should not be viewed as a universal
category.

1. Language contact in Europe: the periphrastic perfect through history; 2.
Languages in contact, areal linguistics and the perfect; 3. The perfect as a
category; 4. Sources of the perfect in Indo-European; 5. The periphrastic
perfect in Greek; 6. The periphrastic perfect in Latin; 7. The Charlemagne
sprachbund and the periphrastic perfects; 8. The core and peripheral features
of romance languages; 9. The early development of the perfect in the Germanic
languages; 10. The semantic shift of anterior to preterite; 11. The Balkan
perfects: grammaticalization and contact; 12. Byzantium, orthodoxy, and old
church Slavonic; 13. The l-perfect in North Slavic; 14. Updating the notion of
sprachbund: new resultatives and the circum-Baltic 'stratified convergence
zone'; 15. The have resultative in Slavic and Baltic; 16. Conclusions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=138114




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3401	
----------------------------------------------------------