The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Published on 10. March 2016
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Hardback
1248 pages
978-0-19-967710-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His research interests include Italian dialectology, the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Latin, syntactic theory, and linguistic change. He is co-editor, with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith, of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013) and, with Paola Benincà
and Nigel Vincent, of Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (OUP, 2014), and author of From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015).
Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He became a fellow of the British Academy in 2003, and is Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. His recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (co-edited with Adam Ledgeway and John Charles Smith; CUP, 2011/2013), The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (co-edited with Silvio Cruschina and John Charles Smith; OUP, 2013), and
Morphological Autonomy (co-edited with John Charles Smith, Maria Goldbach, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin; OUP, 2011).
and Nigel Vincent, of Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (OUP, 2014), and author of From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015).
Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He became a fellow of the British Academy in 2003, and is Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. His recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (co-edited with Adam Ledgeway and John Charles Smith; CUP, 2011/2013), The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (co-edited with Silvio Cruschina and John Charles Smith; OUP, 2013), and
Morphological Autonomy (co-edited with John Charles Smith, Maria Goldbach, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin; OUP, 2011).
Content
Series preface; Abbreviations; The Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Making of the Romance Languages; 1 James Clackson: Latin as a source for the Romance Languages; 2 Roger Wright: Latin and Romance in the medieval period: A sociophilological approach; 3 Barbara Frank-Job and Maria Selig: Early evidence and sources; Part II: Typology and Classification; 4 Nigel Vincent: A structural comparison of Latin and Romance; 5 Paolo Ramat and Davide Ricca: Romance: A typological approach; 6 Georg Bossong: Classifications; 7 Hans Goebl: Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry; Part III: Individual Structural Overviews; 8 Martin Maiden: Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Aromanian; 9 Martin Maiden: Dalmatian; 10 Paola Beninca and Laura Vanelli: Friulian; 11 Giampaolo Salvi: Ladin; 12 Stephen R. Anderson: Romansh (Rumantsch); 13 Paola Beninca, Mair Parry, and Diego Pescarini: The dialects of northern Italy; 14 Adam Ledgeway: Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican; 15 Michele Loporcaro and Tania Paciaroni: The dialects of central Italy; 16 Adam Ledgeway: The dialects of southern Italy; 17 Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger: Sardinian; 18 John Charles Smith: French and northern Gallo-Romance; 19 Michele Olivieri and Patrick Sauzet: Southern Gallo-Romance (Occitan); 20 Andres Kristol: Francoprovencal; 21 Alex Alsina: Catalan; 22 Donald N. Tuten, Enrique Pato, and Ora R. Schwarzwald: Spanish, Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese, Judaeo-Spanish; 23 Francisco Dubert and Charlotte Galves: Galician and Portuguese; 24 Annegret Bollee and Philippe Maurer: Creoles; Part IV: Comparative Overviews; Phonology; 25 Stephan Schmid: Segmental phonology; 26 Giovanna Marotta: Prosodic structure; Morphology; 27 Martin Maiden: Inflectional morphology; 28 Franz Rainer: Derivational morphology; 29 Francesca Forza and Sergio Scalise: Compounding; Syntax; 30 Giuliana Giusti: The structure of the nominal group; 31 Silvio Cruschina and Adam Ledgeway: The structure of the clause; Semantics and Pragmatics; 32 Steven N. Dworkin: Lexical stability and shared lexicon; 33 Ingmar Sohrman: Onomasiological differentiation; 34 Silvio Cruschina: Information and discourse structure; Sociolinguistics; 35 Mari C. Jones, Mair Parry, and Lynn Williams: Sociolinguistic variation; 36 Johannes Kabatek: Diglossia; 37 Christopher J. Pountain: Standardization; Part V: Issues in Romance Phonology; 38 Martin Maiden: Diphthongization; 39 Lori Repetti: Palatalization; 40 Rodney Sampson: Sandhi phenomena; 41 Thomas Finbow: Writing systems; Part VI: Issues in Romance Morphology; 42 Martin Maiden: Number; 43 Martin Maiden: Morphomes; 44 Chiara Cappellaro: Tonic pronominal system: Morphophonology; 45 Diego Pescarini: Clitic pronominal system: Morphophonology; Part VII: Issues in Romance Syntax; 46 Adam Ledgeway: Functional categories; 47 Cecilia Poletto and Christina Tortora: Subject clitics: Syntax; 48 Ian Roberts: Object clitics; 49 Michele Loporcaro: Auxiliary selection and participial agreement; Part VIII: Issues in Romance Syntax and Semantics; 50 Delia Bentley: Split intransitivity; 51 Cecilia Poletto: Negation; 52 Delia Bentley and Francesco Maria Ciconte: Copular and existential constructions; Part IX: Issues in Romance Pragmatics and Discourse; 53 Ion Giurgea and Eva-Maria Remberger: Illocutionary force; 54 Adam Ledgeway and John Charles Smith: Deixis; 55 Richard Ashdowne: Address systems; Part X: Case Studies; The Nominal Group; 56 Adina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae: Case; 57 Michele Loporcaro: Gender; The Verbal Group; 58 Pier Marco Bertinetto and Mario Squartini: Tense and aspect; 59 Josep Quer: Mood; 60 Michela Cennamo: Voice; 61 Michelle Sheehan: Complex predicates; The Clause; 62 Giampaolo Salvi: Word order; 63 Adam Ledgeway: Clausal complementation; 64 Elisabeth Stark: Relative clauses; References; Index