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Download full textHoyrup, Jens – 1993
Problems in determining the origins of Sumerian, an ancient language, are described, and an alternative approach is examined. Sumerian was spoken in southern Iraq in the third millennium B.C. and later used by Babylonian and Assyrian scribes as a classical language. While early texts in Sumerian are considered a better reflection of the original…
Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Classification
Peer reviewedBaron, Naomi S. – Language & Communication, 1998
Discussion of the linguistic character of electronic mail (e-mail) looks at technology's role in shaping spoken and written usage, the growth of e-mail as a new communication genre, and formal linguistic properties of e-mail. Proposes a model of e-mail as a creolizing linguistic modality, analogous to pidginization and creolization processes well…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Campbell, Lyle – 1997
The book offers a general survey of the history of Native American languages. Chapters address these topics: Native American pidgins and trade languages; the history of American Indian linguistics and classification of languages; the origin of Native American languages; languages of North America; languages of Central America; languages of South…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Ushioda, Ema – 1993
A study explored the relevance of acculturation theory to language fossilization in the advanced stages of second language learning. Case studies of two native Japanese speakers with long experience living in an English-speaking environment are examined. First, the model of acculturation is outlined: it proposes that socio-psychological factors,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Creoles, Cultural Context
Melby, Alan K., Ed. – 1997
Fifty-nine papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual forum address these topics: correctness in language; aspects of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; historical linguistics and language evolution; linguistic philosophy; aspects of syntax; aspects of discourse analysis; lexicon and semantics; language contact and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Alzheimers Disease, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages
