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Joan Veny I Clar
Joan Veny i Clar ( Campos, Majorca, on 22 August 1932) is a linguist and Catalan dialectologist from Majorca, considered one of the most prestigious and renowned of the Catalan Countries. He is the author of ''Els parlars catalans'', an essential book for Catalan dialectology, synthesis of the dialectal variation of the entire space of the Catalan Countries; and furthermore a dense and rich work, made in conjunction with Lydia Pons: ''Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain''. Biography He is Emeritus Professor of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona. In addition to this university, he studied at Louvain and Poitiers universities. He received his doctorate in Romance philology in 1956 with the thesis ''Paralelismos léxicos en los dialectos catalanes'' directed by Antoni M. Badia i Margarit and published in 1960. His research in the field of dialectology is leading with regard to the Catalan language, especially after edition of ''Els parlars catalans'' (in 1978), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campos, Spain
Campos () is a municipality on the island of Mallorca, Spain, located on the south side of the island in the comarca of Migjorn. It borders the municipalities Llucmajor, Porreres, Felanitx, Santanyí, and ses Salines Ses Salines is a small municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term .... The urban centers are the village of Campos and two tourist towns, sa Ràpita and ses Covetes. There are seven population centers in all. Economy The economy of this municipality has been linked to agriculture since its foundation. Its lands are fertile and it uses irrigation cultivation. Today the two coastal towns have developed because of tourism. Features * Aljub de la Font Santa, an historic building, housing a rainwater storage well, built in 1671–1673. References External linksOfficial pageEnglish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological change, form of words and, by extension, the origin and evolution of their semantic meaning across time. It is a subfield of historical linguistics, and draws upon comparative semantics, Morphology_(linguistics), morphology, semiotics, and phonetics. For languages with a long recorded history, written history, etymologists make use of texts, and texts about the language, to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in Semantics, meaning and Phonological change, form, or when and how they Loanword, entered the language. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about forms that are too old for any direct information to be available. By analyzing related ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
