Manual of Catalan Linguistics (Manuals of Romance Linguistics Book 25)

This manual is intended to fill a gap in the area of Romance studies. There is no introduction available so far that broadly covers the field of Catalan linguistics, neither in Catalan nor in any other language. The work deals with the language spoken in Catalonia and Andorra, the Balearic Islands, the region of Valencia, Northern Catalonia and the town of l'Alguer in Sardinia. Besides introducing the ideologies of language and nation and the history of Catalan linguistics, the manual is divided into separate parts embracing the description – grammar, lexicon, variation and varieties – and the history of the language since the early medieval period to the present day. It also covers its current social and political situation in the new local and global contexts. The main emphasis is placed on modern Catalan. The manual is designed as a companion for students of Catalan, while also introducing specialists of other languages into this field, in particular scholars of Romance languages. Manuals of Romance Linguistics 5 Acknowledgements 7 Table of Contents 9 0. Introduction 13 1. Languages, Cultures, Nations: A History of Europe 29 2. History of Catalan Linguistics 49 Language Description 93 3. Spelling 93 4. Phonology, Phonetics, Intonation 113 5. Morphosyntax 141 5.1 Word Classes, Inflectional Categories and Paradigms 141 5.2 The Simple Sentence 177 5.3 The Complex Sentence 223 5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences 259 5.5 Lexicalized Syntax: Phraseology 283 6. Pragmatics and Text Linguistics 299 7. Lexicon 323 7.1 General Lexicon 323 7.2 Word-Formation 363 8. Variation and Varieties 383 8.1 Dialects 383 8.2 Social and Functional Variation in Catalan 409 9. Language Corpora 433 Language History 449 10. Early Medieval Catalan 449 11. The Growth and Expansion of Catalan (1213–1516) 483 12. The Origins of Modern Catalan: Cultural and Linguistic Evolution 497 13. Renaixença 509 14. Towards Language Institutionalization 529 14.1 The Language Reform, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Work of Pompeu Fabra 529 14.2 From Pompeu Fabra to the Present Day: Language Change, Hindrance to Corpus and Status Planning 557 15 .Onomastics: Personal Names and Place Names 573 16. Translation 593 Catalan Today 609 17. Languages in Contact: A Sociocultural Approach 609 18. Language Demography 641 19. Language Law and Language Policies 661 20. Teaching and Learning of Catalan 681 21. Catalan in the Mass Media: The Rise of Stylebooks 695 22. Terminology and Neology 705 23. Language Ideologies in Society 721 24. Migration in Catalonia: Language and Diversity in the Global Era 735 25. Catalan Worldwide 751 List of Contributors 763 Index 767 La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de présenter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront être utilisés séparément tout en offrant dans leur totalité une bonne approche globale de l'éventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores Designed both for students of Catalan and specialists of other languages, this manual is the first comprehensive work ever to be published on Catalan linguistics. Following introductory chapters on the ideologies of language and nation and the history of Catalan linguistics as a field, it provides thorough coverage of the Catalan language in its structural, historical and current socio-political aspects.