Baglioni Daniele, Rigobianco Luca (Eds.). Fragments of Languages: From ‘Restsprachen’ to Contemporary Endangered Languages

Brill, 2024. — 341 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 23).The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of languages. Furthermore, by adopting an innovative perspective, the book aims to test the application of the concept of fragmentation to languages which are not commonly included in the categories of ‘Corpussprache’, ‘Trümmersprache’, and ‘Restsprache’. This is the case with diachronic or diatopic varieties — of even well-known languages — which are only attested through a limited corpus of texts as well as with endangered languages. In this latter case, not only is the documentation fragmented, but the very linguistic competence of the speakers, due to the reduction of contexts of language use, interference phenomena with majority languages, and consequent presence of semi-speakers.Fragments of Greek in Babylonian - Paola Corò
Fragments of ‘Solar Royal Compositions’ in the Pharaonic Tradition: ‘Unterweltsbücher’ and Other Related Texts in the Late Egyptian Versions - Emanuele M. Ciampini
‘Restsprachen’ in Ancient Anatolia: Direct and Indirect Sources, Transmission, and Reconstruction - Stella Merlin, Valerio Pisaniello, and Alfredo Rizza
Ancient Greek as a Fragmentary Language: What Is ‘Alexandrian Greek’? - Federico Favi and Olga Tribulato
The Fragmentarily Attested Languages of Pre-Roman Italy: Interpreting, Reconstructing, Classifying - Anna Marinetti and Patrizia Solinas
‘Restsprachen’ and Language Contact: Latin, Etruscan, and the Sabellic Languages - Luca Rigobianco
Reconstructing a Language from Fragmentary and Discontinuous Records: Andalusi Romance (So-Called ‘Mozarabic’) - Marcello Barbato and Laura Minervini
Indirectly Attested Dalmatian Romance Varieties: Survey and Perspectives - Nikola Vuletić
What Remains of an Atypical ‘Restsprache’: The Mediterranean Lingua Franca - Daniele Baglioni
‘Restsprecher’ and Hypercharacterizing Informants between Veglia and Capraia - Lorenzo Filipponio
On the Translation of the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Mòcheno: Linguistic Analysis and Connection to the Extinct Variety of Vignola - Federica Cognola
Semi-Speakers and Data Reliability: The Case of the Cimbrian Variety of Foza - Francesco Zuin
Notes on the Morphology and Syntax of a ‘Restsprache in Re’: Istro-Romanian - Michele Loporcaro