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Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological
research and teaching/learning material on a region of great
cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet
era.
The Kalevala, or runic, songs is a tradition at least a few
thousand years old. It was shared by Finns, Estonians and other
speakers of smaller Baltic-Finnic languages inhabiting the eastern
side of the Baltic Sea in North-Eastern Europe. This book offers a
combined perspective of a musicologist and a linguist to the
structure of the runic songs. Archival recordings of the songs
originating mostly from the first half of the 20th century were
used as source material for this study. The results reveal a
complex interaction between three different processes participating
in singing: speech prosody, metre, and musical rhythm.
These concise lectures have been developed and refined over a
period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and
first-year graduate course on language contact. They provide
factual information on and interpretations of a topic of obvious
sociolinguistic importance; Lehiste's more formal linguistic
approach (reflected in the emphasis on the experimental testing of
theories) offers the student a firm background to which
sociological and anthropological data can be added through
collateral reading. The book summarizes a large literature in a
quick, thorough way and adds a useful glossary and rich
bibliography. Among the topics covered are the concept of
interference, bilingualism, language convergence, and pidgins and
creoles. The examples are drawn from European sources (reflecting
the author's own work), but references are given to other areas.
Useful as a condensed survey of existing information, and
incorporating the author's own research, the text covers the major
aspects of language contact, including the concept of linguistic
affinity "(Sprachbund); "language contact as a cause of linguistic
change; results of language contact; methods of comparing
linguistic structures; concepts of linguistic convergence and
linguistic interference; comparisons of the language usages of
monolingual speakers with those of bilingual and multilingual
speakers; and separate treatments of the bilingual individual and
the bilingual community. Social aspects of the contact situation -
with illustrative case histories - are described and analyzed. Ilse
Lehiste was Professor of Linguistics in the Department of
Linguistics at Ohio State University since its founding in 1965
until 1987, andChairman of the Department during the years
1965-1971 and 1985-1987. Her previous books include "Principles and
Methods for Historical Linguistics "(with Robert Jeffers) and "Word
and Sentence Prosody in Serbocroatian" (with Pavle Ivic).
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