Sotiria Salivaras's diary offers a personal perspective on life in Kalamata, Greece, spanning the tumultuous years from 1940 to 1947. Her entries capture the impact of World War II and the subsequent changes in her community. Eduardo D. Faingold enriches this narrative by providing an analytical context to the significant historical events Salivaras experienced, making it a valuable resource for understanding modern Greek history through a personal lens.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland
Focusing on the language policies of Scandinavian countries, this book analyzes the constitutional and legal frameworks governing the use of North Germanic languages, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It also addresses the historical suppression of minority languages and the evolving role of English and immigrant languages. By adopting a comparative approach, it traces the development of language rights in the region, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars across various disciplines, including linguistics and political science.
Focusing on linguistic rights, the book analyzes language policies within European Union law and the legal frameworks of member states. It highlights the rising demands for language recognition from minority groups, such as Catalan and Welsh, alongside the evolving status of English post-Brexit. The text explores the legal protections available to these linguistic communities, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in language policy, EU law, minority languages, and sociolinguistics.
A Jewish Family and the Military Dictatorship (1976 1983) (PB)
The narrative explores the family's journey through significant historical events, detailing their struggles and resilience. It captures the emotional landscape of their experiences before, during, and after a pivotal moment in history, highlighting themes of survival, adaptation, and the impact of external circumstances on personal lives. The author provides a poignant reflection on the bonds of family and the lessons learned through adversity.
Focusing on the development of grammar, this work offers a comprehensive analysis that highlights the importance of markedness in linguistic theory and language education. It presents an original examination of diverse data related to first and second language acquisition, creolization, and historical linguistics. The book spans various languages and contact varieties, providing fresh insights and predictive power for markedness theory, making it a valuable resource for researchers in Romance languages.
A Jewish Family and the Military Dictatorship (1976-1983)
The narrative weaves a personal and historical tapestry, detailing the author's family's journey from 19th-century immigration to Argentina through the tumultuous years of the military dictatorship. Faingold reflects on his exile in Israel and Denmark, military service in Argentina, and subsequent return to Israel, all while contextualizing these experiences within broader political events. The updated edition enriches the story with historical photos and documents, illustrating the family's dispersion across the globe and their varied cultural lives by the 21st century.
The Development of Phonology in Spanish and Portuguese applies Mayerthaler and Bailey's seminal work in linguistic naturalness and markedness to child language development. The book focuses on Spanish and Portuguese in their many varieties, including their 'daughter' creole and fusion and koine languages, as it systematically examines the acquisition of a range of phonological constructions. The account is further enhanced by reference to historical language change, contact language phenomena and creolization. This highly integrated study demonstrates the impetus and predictive force of markedness theory. It is shown that first-language phonological acquisition, creole phonology, and historical phonology share a large number of universal features. Biological constraits such as language universals and markedness considerations interact in a significant manner in child language, creolization, and historical change with superstrate/substrate languages, and all are affected by the age of the speaker and sociocommunicational constraints such as literacy, borrowing, decreolization, and hypercorrection.