A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Barbara E. Bullock / Cinzia Russi Almeida / Jacqueline Toribio (Hrsg.)
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/369
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7525084
The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages.
The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting.
Die Wurzeln der Kontaktlinguistik: Zur Entstehung des Sprachkontaktparadigmas in der Sprachwissenschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle der Romanistik
Steve Pagel
https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.591
Das Nachdenken über Sprachkontakt und Sprachmischung ist von Beginn an Teil der europäisch-abendländischen Beschäftigung mit Sprache. Angefangen bei Platon im vierten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert, ist es für lange Zeit ein unaufgeregtes Nachdenken, bis sich im 19. Jahrhundert der Blickwinkel radikal ändert: Die Normalität ist plötzlich weg, Kontakt und Mischung werden erst zu einem Forschungstabu und nur wenig später zum ernsthaften Forschungsfokus, aus dem eine eigene Disziplin, die Kontaktlinguistik, hervorgeht. Dieses Buch erzählt erstmals die Geschichte der Erforschung von Sprachkontakt bis an die Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert und zeigt, wie kritisch-historiografische Studien helfen können, aktuelle Debatten (z. B. in der Kreolistik) einzuordnen und voranzubringen.
European Modernity and the Passionate South: Gender and Nation in Spain and Italy in the Long Nineteenth Century
Xavier Andreu-Miralles & Mónica Bolufer-Peruga (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527225
In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.