Formal Approaches to Languages of South America

Rodrigues, Cilene, Saab, Andrés

Formal Approaches to Languages of South America
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-16
  • 售價: $5,950
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 374
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031223462
  • ISBN-13: 9783031223464

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商品描述

This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and Spanish) originally introduced by European colonizers which underwent processes of transformation giving rise to new, local grammars.

One fourth of the language families of the world are located in South America, but the majority of languages in the region are still understudied and out of the radar of theoretical linguistics mostly because their grammars are not well-known by international researchers. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together studies rooted in the formal grammar approach first developed by Noam Chomsky, which sees language not only as mere corpora attested in oral and written production, but also asexpressions of systems of thought and language production which are essential parts of human cognition.

The book is divided in three parts - sign languages, romance languages and indigenous languages -, and brings together studies of the following South American languages:

  • Brazilian Sign Language (Libras - Língua Brasileira de Sinais)
  • Argentinian Sign Language (LSA - Lengua de Señas Argentina)
  • Peruvian Sign Language (LSP- Lengua de Señas Peruana)
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Chilean and Argentinian Spanish
  • Quechua
  • Paraguayan Guarani
  • A'ingae
  • Macro-Jê languages

Formal Approaches to the Languages of South America will be an invaluable resource both for theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists by providing access to top quality research on understudied languages and enabling these languages to be incorporated into comparative studies that can contribute to advance the knowledge of general principles governing all human languages.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書基於深植於正式語法傳統的方法，分析南美洲的語言多樣性。這本合著的章節集合了各種在該地區使用的語言，包括手語、土著語言以及最初由歐洲殖民者引入的羅曼語系語言（葡萄牙語和西班牙語），這些語言經歷了轉變過程，產生了新的本地語法。

世界上四分之一的語系家族位於南美洲，但該地區的大多數語言仍然未受到充分研究，並且在理論語言學的雷達之外，主要是因為它們的語法不為國際研究人員所熟知。本書旨在彌補這一空白，將根植於諾姆·喬姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）首次開發的正式語法方法的研究集合在一起。該方法將語言視為不僅僅是口頭和書面表達中的語料庫，而且還是思想和語言產生系統的表達，這些系統是人類認知的重要組成部分。

本書分為三個部分 - 手語、羅曼語系語言和土著語言 - 並匯集了以下南美洲語言的研究：

- 巴西手語（Libras - Língua Brasileira de Sinais）
- 阿根廷手語（LSA - Lengua de Señas Argentina）
- 秘魯手語（LSP- Lengua de Señas Peruana）
- 巴西葡萄牙語
- 智利和阿根廷西班牙語
- 凱楚亞語
- 巴拉圭瓜拉尼語
- A'ingae語
- Macro-Jê語系

《南美洲語言的正式方法》將成為理論語言學家和認知科學家的寶貴資源，通過提供對未受充分研究的語言的高質量研究的訪問，並使這些語言納入比較研究中，有助於推進關於所有人類語言的一般原則的知識。

作者簡介

Cilene Rodrigues is Adjunct Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Research fellow of Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq/Brazil). Her PhD thesis (University of Maryland, 2004) focused on licensing of null subjects in Partial Pro-drop languages. She is currently directing research on: (a) the grammar of Brazilian Languages, especially Colloquial Brazilian Portuguese, Tupi-Guarani languages and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras); (b) evolution of language, with interdisciplinary investigations on language and psychosis, particularly schizophrenia, grammar and interjections, verbal versus vocal behavior, with fieldwork on the vocal repertoire of Capuchin monkeys.

Andrés Saab studied Literature and Linguistics at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of Comahue (Argentina). In 2009, he defended his PhD dissertation on the theory of ellipsis. Currently, he is Independent Researcher at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), having the Argentinian Society for Philosophical Analysis (IIF-SADAF-CONICET) as official work-place, and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. His main research topics are ellipsis, copy theory of movement, null subjects and, more broadly, the syntax- interface connection. His research has been published by international journals and books (among others, Linguistic Inquiry, The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Probus, Studia Linguistica). He is also co-author of Dimensiones del Significado. Una introducción a la semántica formal (with Fernando Carranza, SADAF, Buenos Aires, 2021), co-editor of Slurs and Expressivity. Semantics and Beyond (with Eleonora Orlando, Lexington, USA, 2021), and co-editor of the volume Romance Language and Linguistic Theory2010 (with Irene Franco and Sara Lusini, John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2012).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Cilene Rodrigues 是里約熱內盧天主教大學（PUC-Rio）的副教授，也是巴西國家研究委員會（CNPq/Brazil）的研究員。她於2004年在馬里蘭大學完成博士論文，研究重點是部分省略語言中的空主題授權。她目前正在指導以下研究項目：(a) 巴西語言的語法，特別是口語巴西葡萄牙語、圖皮-瓜拉尼語和巴西手語（Libras）；(b) 語言的演化，跨學科研究語言和精神病，特別是精神分裂症、語法和感嘆詞，口語與聲音行為的對比，並進行卡普欽猴的聲音庫田野調查。

Andrés Saab 在布宜諾斯艾利斯大學和科馬維國立大學（阿根廷）學習文學和語言學。2009年，他完成了關於省略理論的博士論文。目前，他是阿根廷國家科學技術研究委員會（CONICET）的獨立研究員，正式工作場所是阿根廷哲學分析學會（IIF-SADAF-CONICET），並且是布宜諾斯艾利斯大學的副教授。他的主要研究領域包括省略、移動的複製理論、空主題，以及更廣泛的句法-界面連接。他的研究成果已發表在國際期刊和書籍上（包括《語言探究》、《省略的牛津手冊》、《自然語言和語言理論》、《Lingua》、《Probus, Studia Linguistica》）。他還是《Dimensiones del Significado. Una introducción a la semántica formal》（與Fernando Carranza合著，SADAF, Buenos Aires, 2021）的合著者，《Slurs and Expressivity. Semantics and Beyond》（與Eleonora Orlando合編，Lexington, USA, 2021）的合編者，以及《Romance Language and Linguistic Theory2010》（與Irene Franco和Sara Lusini合編，John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2012）的合編者。

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