A New Companion to the Romance Languages

A New Companion to the Romance Languages
Author: Martin Glessgen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 311132933X
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The Romance languages offer unique potential for empirical analysis and methodological innovation within the vast field of linguistics, due to the survival of a large body of historical documentation, the rich diversity of dialects and languages, and the exceptional quality of the research undertaken to date. However, these same factors have led to an ever-increasing volume of material available for study, requiring the establishment of a shared canonical knowledge base. This companion offers a balanced overview of the core subjects and the methodology which make up the field of Romance linguistics. It provides a solid foundation in the discipline as well as easy and convenient access to highly-specialised areas of research by means of systematic references to the latest handbooks and encyclopedias. The companion is designed to be read from cover to cover or to be consulted for information on specific topics. Advanced students, early-career researchers, lecturers, specialists of other languages, philologists, and historians alike will all benefit from this accessible and up-to-date reference work, as it enables readers to contextualise any knowledge of the discipline they may already possess.

The Romance Languages

The Romance Languages
Author: Martin Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134712286
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Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.

The Romance Languages

The Romance Languages
Author: Rebecca Posner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996-09-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521281393
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What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

A Companion to the Latin Language

A Companion to the Latin Language
Author: James Clackson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444343378
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A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialists Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language Explores the social and political contexts of Latin Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet

Romance Languages

Romance Languages
Author: Ti Alkire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521889154
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This book describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Romance Languages

Romance Languages
Author: Rebecca Posner
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1974
Genre:
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The Romance Languages

The Romance Languages
Author: W. D. Elcock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1960
Genre: Latin language
ISBN:
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This study of the emergence of Romance and its crystallization into French, Spanish, Italian, Rumanian, etc. elucidates not only the creation of the modern languages but also the decline of Latin. The author provides as a setting the world of 'Vulgar Latin', a Roman world where the Latin tongue showed all the anarchical tendencies of popular speech and to which the mingling peoples in the Empire brought new and linguistically exotic elements. He explains how, from the fifth century to the ninth, the forces which procured Rome's political weakening at the same time accelerated the disintegration and differentiation of the Latin vernacular, though enriching it with contributions of their own--Germanic, Arabic, and Slavonic.

On Romance Languages

On Romance Languages
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 33
Release: 1841*
Genre: Romance languages
ISBN:
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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Author: Adam Ledgeway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1260
Release: 2016
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199677107
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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars adopt a variety of theoretical frameworks and approaches to offer a detailed structural examination of all the individual Romance varieties and Romance-speaking areas, including standard, non-standard, dialectal, and regional varieties of the Old and New Worlds. The book also offers a comprehensive comparative account of major topics, issues, and case studies across different areas of the grammar of the Romance languages. The volume is organized into 10 thematic parts: Parts 1 and 2 deal with the making of the Romance languages and their typology and classification, respectively; Part 3 is devoted to individual structural overviews of Romance languages, dialects, and linguistic areas, while Part 4 provides comparative overviews of Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Chapters in Parts 5-9 examine issues in Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, syntax and semantics, and pragmatics and discourse, respectively, while the final part contains case studies of topics in the nominal group, verbal group, and the clause. The book will be an essential resource for both Romance specialists and everyone with an interest in Indo-European and comparative linguistics.

New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages

New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
Author: João Costa
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443870277
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This book puts together a selection of papers presented at The Romance Turn V Workshop, held in Lisbon in 2012. The papers presented at the workshop discussed general problems in the field of Language Acquisition, with a special focus on data from several Romance varieties. The papers in the volume cover a wide array of topics and subfields of acquisition studies, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, acquisition of syntax, semantics, and phonology.