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Fragments of Languages

From ‘Restsprachen’ to Contemporary Endangered Languages

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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 languages. Furthermore, by adopting an innovative perspective, the book aims to test the application of the concept of fragmentation to languages which are not commonly included in the categories of ‘Corpussprache’, ‘Trümmersprache’, and ‘Restsprache’. This is the case with diachronic or diatopic varieties — of even well-known languages — which are only attested through a limited corpus of texts as well as with endangered languages. In this latter case, not only is the documentation fragmented, but the very linguistic competence of the speakers, due to the reduction of contexts of language use, interference phenomena with majority languages, and consequent presence of semi-speakers.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-17
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt692 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor328
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004694620

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Daniele Baglioni is Professor of Italian Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His main research interests are Historical Linguistics and Etymology applied to the Italo-Romance area, as well as the study of the diffusion of Italian in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, in contact with Greek, Arabic, Turkish, and other languages.Luca Rigobianco is Researcher in Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research falls within the fields of Historical and Indo-European Linguistics and (Digital) Epigraphy, focusing on the fragmentary languages of ancient Italy and adopting a perspective attentive to textual and cultural aspects.

AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps, and TablesContributors1 Rethinking Fragmentariness and Reconstruction: An IntroductionDaniele Baglioni and Luca Rigobianco2 Fragments of Greek in BabylonianPaola Corò3 Fragments of ‘Solar Royal Compositions’ in the Pharaonic Tradition: ‘Unterweltsbücher’ and Other Related Texts in the Late Egyptian VersionsEmanuele Ciampini4 ‘Restsprachen’ in Ancient Anatolia: Direct and Indirect Sources, Transmission, and ReconstructionStella Merlin, Valerio Pisaniello and Alfredo Rizza5 Ancient Greek as a Fragmentary Language: What Is ‘Alexandrian Greek’?Federico Favi and Olga Tribulato6 The Fragmentarily Attested Languages of Pre-Roman Italy: Interpreting, Reconstructing, ClassifyingAnna Marinetti and Patrizia Solinas7 ‘Restsprachen’ and Language Contact: Latin, Etruscan, and the Sabellic LanguagesLuca Rigobianco8 Reconstructing a Language from Fragmentary and Discontinuous Records: Andalusi Romance (So-Called ‘Mozarabic’)Marcello Barbato and Laura Minervini9 Indirectly Attested Dalmatian Romance Varieties: Survey and PerspectivesNikola Vuletić10 What Remains of an Atypical ‘Restsprache’: The Mediterranean Lingua FrancaDaniele Baglioni11 ‘Restsprecher’ and Hypercharacterizing Informants between Veglia and CapraiaLorenzo Filipponio12 On the Translation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Mòcheno: Linguistic Analysis and Connection to the Extinct Variety of VignolaFederica Cognola13 Semi-Speakers and Data Reliability: The Case of the Cimbrian Variety of FozaFrancesco Zuin14 Notes on the Morphology and Syntax of a ‘Restsprache in Re’: Istro-RomanianMichele LoporcaroIndex