Lingua Franca - Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

List of contents

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. The author; 3. The dictionnaire; 4. The orthography; 5. The lexicon; 6. The word formation; 7. The inflection; 8. The syntax; 9. The lingua franca; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C.

About the author

Natalie Operstein's publications include Consonant Structure and Prevocalization (2010), Zaniza Zapotec (2015), Valence Changes in Zapotec (ed. with Sonnenschein, 2015), and Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond (ed. with Dakin and Parodi, 2017). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Summary

Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label 'Lingua Franca' conceal? These and related questions are explored in this new book on an enduringly important topic, creating new avenues for multi-disciplinary research on Mediterranean languages and history.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Operstein, Natalie (University of California Operstein, Operstein Natalie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781316518311
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51831-1
• No. of pages: 335
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; European History, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Lexicography, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics