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Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on. As reader, you discover promising research perspectives to bridge the gap between the long-standing discipline of Neo-Latin studies and the young field of New Ancient Greek studies.

Bilingualism. --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism

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" The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. "

Languages in contact --- Sociolinguistics --- Arabic language --- Social aspects --- Foreign elements

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Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the machinery developed for free combinations where the default is that the meaning of an utterance can be predicted from its structure. There is a rich body of primarily descriptive work on MWEs for many European languages but comparative work is little. The volume brings together MWE experts to explore the benefits of a multilingual perspective on MWEs. The ten contributions in this volume look at MWEs in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Maori, Modern Greek, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish. They discuss prominent issues in MWE research such as classification of MWEs, their formal grammatical modeling, and the description of individual MWE types from the point of view of different theoretical frameworks, such as Dependency Grammar, Generative Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Lexicon Grammar.

Bilingüismo --- Multilingüismo --- Bilingualism. --- Multilingualism. --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Linguistics

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This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo.

Languages in contact --- Gbe languages --- Bantu languages --- Langues en contact --- Langues éwé --- Langues bantoues --- Congresses --- Grammar, Comparative --- Bantu --- Gbe --- Congrès --- Grammaire comparée --- Bantou --- Ewé --- Africa, West --- Afrique occidentale --- Languages --- Langues --- Bantu languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Gbe. --- Gbe languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bantu. --- Languages in contact -- African, West. --- Languages in contact -- Suriname. --- Bantu. --- Gbe. --- African, West --- Kintu languages --- Ntu languages --- Sintu languages --- Ewe languages --- Grammar, Comparative&delete& --- Benue-Congo languages --- Kwa languages --- Areal linguistics --- Languages. --- E-books --- African Diaspora. --- Middle Passage. --- Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. --- African diaspora.

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Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until deep into the 18th century scientific works were written in it. It is still an official language of the Roman Catholic Church. But why did authors choose for Latin or for their native tongue? In the case of bilingual authors, what made them choose either language, and what implications did that have? What interactions existed between the two? Contributors include Jan Bloemendal, Wiep van Bunge, H. Floris Cohen, Arjan C. van Dixhoorn, Guillaume van Gemert, Joep T. Leerssen, Ingrid Rowland, Arie Schippers, Eva Del Soldato, Demmy Verbeke, Françoise Waquet, and Ari H. Wesseling†.

Latin language --- Bilingualism --- Indo-European languages --- Foreign elements --- History --- Influence on Latin. --- Influence on Indo-European languages. --- History of civilization --- Classical Latin language --- Sociolinguistics --- Foreign elements. --- History. --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism