Christopher J Pountain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1152374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Pountain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pountain |
| SIGNATURE | POUNTAIN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6952-1187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Una relatinización léxica y morfológica
1 IntroducciónEl contacto cultural continuado entre el latín y las lenguas románicas desde los orígenes de estas ha desencadenado una serie de fenómenos lingüísticos para los que el término relatinización resulta útil y adecuado como forma de referencia a los variados procesos mediante los que las lenguas románicas se aproximan al latín, por medio de la recuperación de ciertas propiedades estructurales de su antecedente lingüístico (Gougenheim 19…
Modern Languages as an academic discipline
In Pountain (2017), I argued that the indispensable foundation of an academic discipline of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) must consist of (a) acquisition of and competence in the standard form of a foreign language, (b) awareness of its linguistic structure and varieties, and (c) critical study of cultural manifestations which depend on that language (loosely, the ‘Three Ls’: Language, Linguistics and Literature), justifying this view on the gro…
The Development of the Articles in Castilian
The development of the definite and indefinite articles in Castilian may be regarded as an instance of capitalization or adfunctionalization, following partial exaptation of the Latin demonstrative ille, which involves progressive widening without significant loss of function, the rendering of overt distinctions which were previously covert through the contrast between definite article, indefinite article and the "zero" determiner, the creation o…
The Three Ls of Modern Foreign Languages
The learning of Modern Foreign Languages in the UK in schools and universities is generally acknowledged to be in a state of crisis. This article charts briefly the dimensions of this crisis and then turns to our understanding of Modern Foreign Languages as an academic discipline. It begins by tracing the origins of this discipline and then considers what should constitute the essential components of this discipline today. It concludes that the s…
Putting Philology Back into Linguistics
The history of the Spanish language (and of all the standardized Romance languages) is defined by its establishment as an Ausbau language, a process which is known to us only through written texts. This article begins with a critical appraisal of what can be deduced from the philological study of texts and then presents a number of case studies from the history of Spanish which show how electronic corpora can provide information about change in l…
Towards a history of register in Spanish
Although the significance of many other dimensions of variation in the data of Spanish historical linguistics is well recognised, the importance of studying variation in register has been underestimated and its feasibility questioned. This is in striking contrast to English historical linguistics, in which the study of register on the basis of electronic corpora is comparatively far advanced. This paper is a small-scale investigation of a 15th-ce…
Gender and Spanish agentive suffixes
The gender of inanimate nouns in Spanish is generally regarded as being arbitrary. Alvar and Pottier are at some pains to substantiate this view on the basis of the history of gender inheritance an
Pragmatic and Structural Reflections on the Expression of the Second Person Notion in Romance, with Special Reference to Spanish and Portuguese
BSS Subject Index: PORTUGAL — PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE & ITS HISTORYROMANCE LANGUAGES & THEIR HISTORYSPAIN — LANGUAGES — SPANISH LANGUAGE & ITS HISTORY — GENERAL
A History of the Spanish Language through Texts
List of Keypoints. List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Chapter 1. Preliminaries. Chapter 2. Latin and Romance. Chapter 3. Early Romance. Chapter 4. Al-Andalus. Chapter 5. Early Literature in Castilian: Dialect Diversity and Mixture. Chapter 6. The Castilian Norm. Chapter 7. Prose Documents in Castilian from the 15th Century. Chapter 8. The Golden Age.: Linguistic Self-Awareness. Chapter 9: The Golden Age. Chapter 10. The Enlightenment. Chapter 1…
Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)
The reflexive has undergone a significant extension of its functions in all the Romance languages, especially in Spanish. In this article it is argued that the historical trajectory of the reflexive follows an evolutionary hierarchy which is ordered according to both semantic and pragmatic criteria, and that the Romance languages differ according to the stage of the hierarchy they have reached, even though puristic intervention can occasionally u…
Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)
The reflexive has undergone a significant extension of its functions in all the Romance languages, especially in Spanish. In this article it is argued that the historical trajectory of the reflexive follows an evolutionary hierarchy which is ordered according to both semantic and pragmatic criteria, and that the Romance languages differ according to the stage of the hierarchy they have reached, even though puristic intervention can occasionally u…
Using Spanish
Structures and Transformations
Structural linguists have focused on the morphological patternings of the Romance verb system, both from the point of view of systematizing variation and of mapping meaning on the form. Transformationalists, however, have tended to focus on the English auxiliaries. This book fills a gap in previous accounts by investigating the syntax of Romance verb-form usage, concerning both the verb itself and a simple sentence and such phenomena as sequence …
A computer-validated Portuguese to English transformational grammar
Modern Languages as an academic discipline
In Pountain (2017), I argued that the indispensable foundation of an academic discipline of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) must consist of (a) acquisition of and competence in the standard form of a foreign language, (b) awareness of its linguistic structure and varieties, and (c) critical study of cultural manifestations which depend on that language (loosely, the ‘Three Ls’: Language, Linguistics and Literature), justifying this view on the gro…
Gender and Spanish agentive suffixes
The gender of inanimate nouns in Spanish is generally regarded as being arbitrary. Alvar and Pottier are at some pains to substantiate this view on the basis of the history of gender inheritance an
A computer-validated Portuguese to English transformational grammar
Structures and Transformations
Structural linguists have focused on the morphological patternings of the Romance verb system, both from the point of view of systematizing variation and of mapping meaning on the form. Transformationalists, however, have tended to focus on the English auxiliaries. This book fills a gap in previous accounts by investigating the syntax of Romance verb-form usage, concerning both the verb itself and a simple sentence and such phenomena as sequence …
Using Spanish
Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)
The reflexive has undergone a significant extension of its functions in all the Romance languages, especially in Spanish. In this article it is argued that the historical trajectory of the reflexive follows an evolutionary hierarchy which is ordered according to both semantic and pragmatic criteria, and that the Romance languages differ according to the stage of the hierarchy they have reached, even though puristic intervention can occasionally u…
Pragmatic Factors in the Evolution of the Romance Reflexive (with special reference to Spanish)
The reflexive has undergone a significant extension of its functions in all the Romance languages, especially in Spanish. In this article it is argued that the historical trajectory of the reflexive follows an evolutionary hierarchy which is ordered according to both semantic and pragmatic criteria, and that the Romance languages differ according to the stage of the hierarchy they have reached, even though puristic intervention can occasionally u…
Pragmatic and Structural Reflections on the Expression of the Second Person Notion in Romance, with Special Reference to Spanish and Portuguese
BSS Subject Index: PORTUGAL — PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE & ITS HISTORYROMANCE LANGUAGES & THEIR HISTORYSPAIN — LANGUAGES — SPANISH LANGUAGE & ITS HISTORY — GENERAL
A History of the Spanish Language through Texts
List of Keypoints. List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Chapter 1. Preliminaries. Chapter 2. Latin and Romance. Chapter 3. Early Romance. Chapter 4. Al-Andalus. Chapter 5. Early Literature in Castilian: Dialect Diversity and Mixture. Chapter 6. The Castilian Norm. Chapter 7. Prose Documents in Castilian from the 15th Century. Chapter 8. The Golden Age.: Linguistic Self-Awareness. Chapter 9: The Golden Age. Chapter 10. The Enlightenment. Chapter 1…
Towards a history of register in Spanish
Although the significance of many other dimensions of variation in the data of Spanish historical linguistics is well recognised, the importance of studying variation in register has been underestimated and its feasibility questioned. This is in striking contrast to English historical linguistics, in which the study of register on the basis of electronic corpora is comparatively far advanced. This paper is a small-scale investigation of a 15th-ce…
Gender and Spanish agentive suffixes
The gender of inanimate nouns in Spanish is generally regarded as being arbitrary. Alvar and Pottier are at some pains to substantiate this view on the basis of the history of gender inheritance an
Putting Philology Back into Linguistics
The history of the Spanish language (and of all the standardized Romance languages) is defined by its establishment as an Ausbau language, a process which is known to us only through written texts. This article begins with a critical appraisal of what can be deduced from the philological study of texts and then presents a number of case studies from the history of Spanish which show how electronic corpora can provide information about change in l…
The Three Ls of Modern Foreign Languages
The learning of Modern Foreign Languages in the UK in schools and universities is generally acknowledged to be in a state of crisis. This article charts briefly the dimensions of this crisis and then turns to our understanding of Modern Foreign Languages as an academic discipline. It begins by tracing the origins of this discipline and then considers what should constitute the essential components of this discipline today. It concludes that the s…
Modern Languages as an academic discipline
In Pountain (2017), I argued that the indispensable foundation of an academic discipline of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) must consist of (a) acquisition of and competence in the standard form of a foreign language, (b) awareness of its linguistic structure and varieties, and (c) critical study of cultural manifestations which depend on that language (loosely, the ‘Three Ls’: Language, Linguistics and Literature), justifying this view on the gro…
The Development of the Articles in Castilian
The development of the definite and indefinite articles in Castilian may be regarded as an instance of capitalization or adfunctionalization, following partial exaptation of the Latin demonstrative ille, which involves progressive widening without significant loss of function, the rendering of overt distinctions which were previously covert through the contrast between definite article, indefinite article and the "zero" determiner, the creation o…
Una relatinización léxica y morfológica
1 IntroducciónEl contacto cultural continuado entre el latín y las lenguas románicas desde los orígenes de estas ha desencadenado una serie de fenómenos lingüísticos para los que el término relatinización resulta útil y adecuado como forma de referencia a los variados procesos mediante los que las lenguas románicas se aproximan al latín, por medio de la recuperación de ciertas propiedades estructurales de su antecedente lingüístico (Gougenheim 19…
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Art (3 works)