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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.

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Daniele Baglioni is Professor of Italian Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His main research interests are Historical Linguistics and Etymology applied to the Italo-Romance area, as well as the study of the diffusion of Italian in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, in contact with Greek, Arabic, Turkish, and other languages. Luca Rigobianco is Researcher in Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research falls within the fields of Historical and Indo-European Linguistics and (Digital) Epigraphy, focusing on the fragmentary languages of ancient Italy and adopting a perspective attentive to textual and cultural aspects.

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