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Catalanby Max Wheeler; Alan Yates; Nicolau Dols
Routledge 1999; US$ 71.95A complete reference guide to modern Catalan grammar, presenting an accessible and systematic description of the modern language. more...
Colloquial Catalanby Toni Ibarz; Alexander Ibarz
Routledge 2004; US$ 28.95This course teaches Catalan, as spoken in north-eastern Spain today. more...
Colloquial Spanish of Latin America 2by Rodrí; Roberto guez-Saona
Routledge 2004; US$ 25.95Colloquial Spanish of Latin America 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and extend your skills. more...
Jugendsprache in Barcelona und ihre Darstellung in den Kommunikationsmedienby Katharina Wieland
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 133.00Youth media present socio-cultural tendencies which young people reflect in their language and thus often set linguistic trends. Or does it work the other way round? In either case, there is a close connection between youth culture and youth language, which in Catalonia is heightened by the encounter between two languages and cultures, Spanish and Catalan. Against his background, the author contrasts and compares linguistic products of young Catalans with the language used in youth broadcasts and publications in Catalan communication media. more...
The Phonology of Catalanby Max W. Wheeler
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 228.00This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory it describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years. - ;This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian. It is the first language of six and a half million people in the northeastern Spain and of the peoples of Andorra, French Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and a small region of Sardinia. Dr Wheeler describes Barcelona pronunciation and the... more...
Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalanby Ingo Feldhausen
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 149.00This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and structures involving clitic left- and right-dislocations. The results show variation in phrasing that depends on syntactic factors and non-syntactic factors such as topic-hood and prosodic binarity. The theoretical section uses Stochastic Optimality Theory to model the variation and frequency distributions associated with the observed prosodic patterns. Various syntactic and non-syntactic factors are represented by alignment constraints, which play a... more...
The Architect of Modern Catalanby Pompeu Fabra; Joan Costa Carreras; Alan Yates; Georg Kremnitz
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 143.00Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century. The context in which he worked was defined by the ideology and momentum of a dynamic Catalan nationalism emerging out of the nineteenth-century cultural revival movement, energies which have continued to affect politics in the Spanish state through to the present. The imposing corpus of Fabra?s writings ?newspaper articles, lectures and papers, various grammars and the redaction of the official dictionary of Catalan? covered all aspects of the normativisation and the social normalisation of a rejuvenated national language.... more...
Democratic Policies for Language Revitalisation: The Case of Catalanby Mr Miquel Strubell; Dr Emili Boix-Fuster
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2011; US$ 80.00A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework in each of the main Spanish regions where it is spoken: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. more...
The Pervasive Imageby Robert Archer
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 102.00The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausiās March more...
Curial and Guelfaby Max W. Wheeler
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00Among 15th-century literature in the Romance languages, Curial and Guelfa is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. It is a veritable jewel of late medieval European literature and of narrative in the Crown of Aragon in particular. Curial shares a range of features ? realism, humanity, believable deeds of chivalry, historical background, allusions to everyday life, elements of humour and parody, variation between literary and popular language ? with contemporary French chivalric narratives, and with the Valencian Joanot Martorell?s Tirant lo Blanc . In this company, however, Curial stands out for the predominance in it of the sentimental component, for a significant incidence of learned elements from Greek and Latin classical... more...









