Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology/Eurotyp , No 20-4)

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. (Added pages that were missing in the previous upload) Contributors Abbreviations Part I – Thematic Chapters 1 Word accent 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Basic concepts 1.3 Metrical theory 1.4 Overview 1.5 Accent and tone 1.6 Terms, transcriptions and conventions 1.7 Concluding remark 2 Stress domains 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The prosodic hierarchy 2.3 The mapping of compounds onto prosodic structure 2.4 Postlexical word stress readjustments 2.5 Conclusions 3 The rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Stress shift and stress strengthening: theoretical background 3.3 Bracketed grids: the assignment of stress above the word level 3.4 Move x and Add x in English 3.5 The case of Dutch: a comparison with English 3.6 Language sketches 3.7 Summary and conclusions 4 Word prosody and intonation 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Lexical and postlexical tones 4.3 Intonation and secondary stress 4.4 Summary and conclusions 5 The phonetic manifestation of word stress 5.1 The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Lithuanian, Polish and German and Spanish 5.2 The phonetic manifestation of stress in Welsh 6 Diachronic prosody 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Common Germanic 6.3 West Germanic 6.4 North Germanic 6.5 Typology of Germanic quantity shift 6.6 Development of tonal accents 6.7 Romance loans 6.8 Romance 6.9 Summary of types of changes in metrical systems Part II – Case Studies 7 A survey of word prosodic systems of European languages 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Language summaries 7.3 Classification by type 8 Word-stress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages 8.0 Introduction 8.1 Word stress in West-Germanic languages 8.2 Word stress in North-Germanic languages 9 Word tone in Germanic languages 9.1 Scandinavian languages 9.2 A description of tonal accent in a Limburgian dialect 10 Stress in the Romance languages 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Syllable windows and extrametricality 10.3 Closed syllables 10.4 Verbs 10.5 Interaction with morphology 10.6 Summary and conclusions 11 Slavic languages 11.1 West Slavic 11.2 South Slavic 11.3 Russian 11.3 Introduction 12 Baltic languages 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Lighuanian 12.3 Latvian 13 Greek word accent 13.1 Introduction 13.2 The parameters 13.3 Unstressed, underived and uninflected words 13.4 Adjectives 13.5 Nouns 13.6 The verb 13.7 The clitics 13.8 Dialectal variation of the verb 13.9 Prefixing 13.10 Compounds 13.11 Summary and conclusions 14 Basque accentuation 14.1 Introduction 14.2 The Western type 14.3 The Central type 14.4 The Hondarribia type 14.5 The Northern High Navarrese type 14.6 The Southern High Navarrese type 14.7 The Labourdin/Low Navarrese type 14.8 The Souletin/Roncalese or Eastern type 14.9 Summary and conclusions 15 Caucasian: Daghestanian languages 15.2 Examples arranged according to family and prosodic type 15.3 Conclusion Index of authors Index of languages Index of subjects Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. One of a series of nine volumes presenting the results of the research project Typology of Languages in Europe, carried out by linguistic scholars from across the continent. The first six studies are thematic treatments of the metrical dimensions of language, and include discussions of word accent, stress domains, the rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases, word prosody and intonation, the phonetic manifestation of word stress, and diachronic prosody. They each illustrate their topic with examples from a number of languages. The other nine studies are a survey of word prosody systems in European languages and case studies of Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Baltic, and Daghestanian languages and of Greek and Basque. Many of them include sections on specific languages by different authors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. 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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

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