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Productive Patterns in Phraseology and Construction Grammar
Adopting a corpus-based methodology, this volume analyses phraseological patterns in nine European languages from a monolingual, bilingual and multilingual point of view, following a mostly Construction Grammar approach. At present, corpus-based constructional research represents an interesting and innovative field of phraseology with great relevance to translatology, foreign language didactics and lexicography.
Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language
This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Constructions in Contact 2
The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic devices. The different contributions included in the book point to revealing conclusions concerning the status of surprise in Romance as well as the place that mirativity occupies (if any) in the grammar of these languages. In this vein, the volume tries to answer questions such as to what extent do interactional contexts influence the development of mirative structures or how is the solidarity synchrony / diachrony reflected in mirative constructions.
Contact des langues et plurilinguisme dans la Romania
Les situations hétérogènes de contact linguistique et le plurilinguisme présentent toujours un défi épistémologique pour la recherche. Le type de contact linguistique, les langues impliquées, les enjeux sociaux d’une société et ses groupes sociaux différents ainsi que la culture du plurilinguisme sont des facteurs importants qui en font un objet de recherche très complexe et difficilement généralisable. Ce volume contient des études qui essaient d’apprivoiser cette complexité en analysant des situations différentes de contact linguistique et de plurilinguisme en Amérique et en Europe pour en montrer les enjeux et proposer de nouvelles théories et méthodes multidisciplinaires pour les appréhender. Le volume contient également des discussions sur les nouvelles possibilités de recueillir des données linguistiques relevant des usages stigmatisés ou des sources nouvelles pour analyser aussi bien l’usage linguistique que les évaluations que les gens en font ainsi que les métadiscours qui circulent sur ces usages.
Morceaux choisis du folklore louisianais
"In this volume are gathered five master's theses written under the supervision of Professors William A. Read and James Broussard at the University of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the early twentieth century. The common aim of these works - which the authors are ASH Trappey (1916), R. Lavergne (1930), S.J. Durand (1930) A. Jarreau (1931) and Ch Welcome (1933) - is to provide texts in Creole Louisiana as it was spoken in the late nineteenth century. These are collections of stories, riddles, songs and medical forms collected by the authors in the various regions of Louisiana Creole speaking and some of which already contain some remarks on the Louisiana Creole language. Thus, they provide not only information on the oral tradition in Louisiana, still alive in the early twentieth century, but they also constitute an important database for longitudinal studies on Louisiana Creole."--Transliterated from publisher's website.
