Manual of Catalan Linguistics / / ed. by Jens Lüdtke, Joan A. Argenter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Argenter, Joan A.,; Bacardí, Montserrat,; Boix-Fuster, Emili,; Bou, Joan Soler,; Brumme, Jenny,; Cabré, M. Teresa,; Cardona, Miquel Àngel Pradilla,; Cuenca, Maria Josep,; Dols, Nicolau,; Feldhausen, Ingo,; Ferrando, Antoni,; Font, August Bover i,; Giralt, Oriol Camps,; Julià-Muné, Joan,; Lamuela, Xavier,; Lüdtke, Jens,; Mallafrè, Joaquim,; Martines, Josep,; Mateu, Jaume,; Messalles, Mar Massanell i,; Mira, Joan F.,; Montané, M. Amor,; Nicolás, Miquel,; Pons, Eva,; Pujolar, Joan,; Rafanell, August,; Rasico, Philip D.,; Rigau, Gemma,; Romagosa, Aina Labèrnia,; Saldanya, Manuel Pérez,; Turull, Albert,; Vila, F. Xavier,; Villalba, Xavier,; Woolard, Kathryn A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Argenter, Joan A.,; Lüdtke, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (784 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Languages, Cultures, Nations: A History of Europe -- 2. History of Catalan Linguistics -- Language Description -- 3. Spelling -- 4. Phonology, Phonetics, Intonation -- 5. Morphosyntax -- 5.1 Word Classes, Inflectional Categories and Paradigms -- 5.2 The Simple Sentence -- 5.3 The Complex Sentence -- 5.4 Modality and Information Structure: Focus, Dislocation, Interrogative and Exclamatory Sentences -- 5.5 Lexicalized Syntax: Phraseology -- 6. Pragmatics and Text Linguistics -- 7. Lexicon -- 7.1 General Lexicon -- 7.2 Word-Formation -- 8. Variation and Varieties -- 8.1 Dialects -- 8.2 Social and Functional Variation in Catalan -- 9. Language Corpora -- Language History -- 10. Early Medieval Catalan -- 11. The Growth and Expansion of Catalan (1213–1516) -- 12. The Origins of Modern Catalan: Cultural and Linguistic Evolution -- 13. Renaixença -- 14. Towards Language Institutionalization -- 14.1 The Language Reform, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Work of Pompeu Fabra -- 14.2 From Pompeu Fabra to the Present Day: Language Change, Hindrance to Corpus and Status Planning -- 15 .Onomastics: Personal Names and Place Names -- 16. Translation -- Catalan Today -- 17. Languages in Contact: A Sociocultural Approach -- 18. Language Demography -- 19. Language Law and Language Policies -- 20. Teaching and Learning of Catalan -- 21. Catalan in the Mass Media: The Rise of Stylebooks -- 22. Terminology and Neology -- 23. Language Ideologies in Society -- 24. Migration in Catalonia: Language and Diversity in the Global Era -- 25. Catalan Worldwide -- List of Contributors -- Index