Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2023.11

A sys­temic func­tion­al gram­mar of Chi­nese nom­i­nal groups: a text-based approach
This book describes the gram­mar of Chi­nese nom­i­nal groups for the pur­pose of text analy­sis, draw­ing upon Halliday’s sys­temic func­tion­al lin­guis­tics (SFL) mod­el. Explor­ing the meta­func­tion­al gram­mat­i­cal resources in nom­i­nal groups, the book pro­vides a new per­spec­tive on con­duct­ing text analy­sis by focus­ing on the meta­func­tions per­formed by var­i­ous ele­ments in the nom­i­nal group.
The obser­va­tions on nom­i­nal groups pre­sent­ed here are based on both a work­ing cor­pus of 180 texts of var­i­ous types and a large ref­er­en­tial cor­pus of over 16 bil­lion tokens. With clear descrip­tions of the ter­mi­nol­o­gy used, the book presents a case study at the end of each major chap­ter, which demon­strates how the gram­mat­i­cal resources dis­cussed can be applied to the del­i­cate analy­sis of authen­tic texts. This mono­graph is more than a gram­mar book, for it offers a new way to engage with a text micro­scop­i­cal­ly and enables read­ers to approach and analyse a text by focus­ing on gram­mat­i­cal units below the clause lev­el. The book pro­vides an acces­si­ble and valu­able resource for read­ers who are inter­est­ed in SFL-based typo­log­i­cal descrip­tion, text analy­sis, trans­la­tion stud­ies between Eng­lish and Chi­nese, English–Chinese com­par­a­tive lin­guis­tic stud­ies, and Chi­nese lan­guage teach­ing and learn­ing.
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Syn­tax and Mor­phol­o­gy of Yid­dish Dialects: Find­ings from the Lan­guage and Cul­ture Archive of Ashke­naz­ic Jew­ry
20th cen­tu­ry fas­cism large­ly destroyed Euro­pean Jew­ish cul­tures in their orig­i­nal form and dis­tri­b­u­tion. Sur­vivors brought their cul­ture to new envi­ron­ments, where it was part­ly revi­tal­ized. Lan­guages were also vic­tim to this, or were aban­doned in the course of assim­i­la­tion and accul­tur­a­tion, or at least were strong­ly influ­enced by the dif­fer­ent new con­tact sit­u­a­tions. In the 1950s, when it was fore­see­able that many sur­vivors who had grown up in the old Euro­pean ter­ri­to­ries would not pass on their moth­er tongue to their chil­dren and grand­chil­dren, Uriel Wein­re­ich rec­og­nized the neces­si­ty and oppor­tu­ni­ty to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly doc­u­ment the lan­guage and cul­ture of these speak­ers. With­in the frame­work of his project “Lan­guage and Cul­ture Archive of Ashke­naz­ic Jew­ry” (LCAAJ), 18 inter­view­ers col­lect­ed inter­views with almost 1,000 infor­mants between 1959 and 1972 on the basis of an exten­sive ques­tion­naire. The mate­r­i­al col­lect­ed with­in the frame­work of the LCAAJ is an inex­haustible fund and the best source we have on the his­tor­i­cal Yid­dish dialects of Cen­tral Europe. With the pub­li­ca­tion of the dig­i­tized copies of the writ­ten records (field notes) by Colum­bia Libraries in 2018 the raw data of the LCAAJ became avail­able to the pub­lic. Between 2017 and 2022 the project “Syn­tax of East­ern Yid­dish Dialects” (SEYD) ana­lyzed these field notes with regard to syn­tac­tic and also mor­pho­log­i­cal struc­tures. The present vol­ume presents a selec­tion of these phe­nom­e­na. The focus is on the empir­i­cal data as well as their embed­ding in a (micro)typological con­text. A large num­ber of maps illus­trate the spa­tial dimen­sion of the gram­mat­i­cal vari­a­tion giv­en in the for­mer Euro­pean Yid­dish dialects.
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