Fragments of Languages : From 'Restsprachen' to Contemporary Endangered Languages /

Fragments of Languages : From 'Restsprachen' to Contemporary Endangered Languages /

The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of language...

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Other Authors: Baglioni, Daniele (Editor), Rigobianco, Luca (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 23.
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Languages and Linguistics.
Multilingualism.

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Call Number: P57.I4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
  • Contributors
  • 1 Rethinking Fragmentariness and Reconstruction: An Introduction
  • Daniele Baglioni and Luca Rigobianco
  • 2 Fragments of Greek in Babylonian
  • Paola Corò
  • 3 Fragments of 'Solar Royal Compositions' in the Pharaonic Tradition: 'Unterweltsbücher' and Other Related Texts in the Late Egyptian Versions
  • Emanuele Ciampini
  • 4 'Restsprachen' in Ancient Anatolia: Direct and Indirect Sources, Transmission, and Reconstruction
  • Stella Merlin, Valerio Pisaniello and Alfredo Rizza
  • 5 Ancient Greek as a Fragmentary Language: What Is 'Alexandrian Greek'?
  • Federico Favi and Olga Tribulato
  • 6 The Fragmentarily Attested Languages of Pre-Roman Italy: Interpreting, Reconstructing, Classifying
  • Anna Marinetti and Patrizia Solinas
  • 7 'Restsprachen' and Language Contact: Latin, Etruscan, and the Sabellic Languages
  • Luca Rigobianco
  • 8 Reconstructing a Language from Fragmentary and Discontinuous Records: Andalusi Romance (So-Called 'Mozarabic')
  • Marcello Barbato and Laura Minervini
  • 9 Indirectly Attested Dalmatian Romance Varieties: Survey and Perspectives
  • Nikola Vuletić
  • 10 What Remains of an Atypical 'Restsprache': The Mediterranean Lingua Franca
  • Daniele Baglioni
  • 11 'Restsprecher' and Hypercharacterizing Informants between Veglia and Capraia
  • Lorenzo Filipponio
  • 12 On the Translation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Mòcheno: Linguistic Analysis and Connection to the Extinct Variety of Vignola
  • Federica Cognola
  • 13 Semi-Speakers and Data Reliability: The Case of the Cimbrian Variety of Foza
  • Francesco Zuin
  • 14 Notes on the Morphology and Syntax of a 'Restsprache in Re': Istro-Romanian
  • Michele Loporcaro
  • Index.