Brill, 2016. — 223 p. — (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 6). In Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond, Guro Nore Fløgstad offers an original account of the way in which the Preterit category has expanded, at the expense of the Perfect, in Porteño Spanish – a variety spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through primary sources and a large...
Springer, 2021. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 99). This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and dialects. The collection, divided into four sections, proposes that SE...
Springer, 2019. — 254 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 95). This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Spanish. Other chapters...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 216 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker ‘s syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 282 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 368 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 22). This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 209 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 34). This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 327 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 10). This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 209 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 46). This book explores the syntactic and semantic change of three types of constructions in the history of Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex DPs with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 283 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 36). The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 353 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 47). This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 249 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 38). This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. Andre Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 318 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 9). This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the organization of the discourse, the speaker's relationship with the interlocutor, and the speaker's stance with regard to the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 353 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 44). This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 529 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 48). This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 463 p. The volume brings together fifteen papers focusing on the morphosyntax of different Romance varieties. It is based on papers presented at the workshop bearing the same title held at the University of Bucharest in November 2015 and is dedicated to Professor Martin Maiden of the University of Oxford in honour of his 60th birthday. The...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 485 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 41). This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 342 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 33). This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no', and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these elements have undergone significant diachronic...
New York; London; Amsterdam: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1974. — xiii, 344 p. — (Foundations of Linguistics / Comparative Romance grammar [1]). Analysis and presentation will utilise all those techniques currently available, wherever their use is appropriate. In the description of linguistic structure, tagmemic-odic, transformational, stratificational, and other...
New York; Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1976. — 307 p. — (Comparative Romance grammar 2). This pioneering work on the field of comparative phonology of the Romance languages has a good introduction to the phonemic inventory of Proto-Romance and opened the study of the comparative method, followed nowadays by important schools of Proto-Romance studies. In despite of its worthful...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2016. — 261 p. — (Romanistische Fremdsprachenforschung und Unterrichtsentwicklung 5). Im Herbst 2014 fand in Valencia der dritte Kongress der Reihe "Contrastivica - Deutsch-iberische Tagung zur kontrastiven Linguistik" statt. Zu dem Thema "Sprachen und Kulturen vermitteln zwischen Spanien, Portugal und Deutschland: Kontrastive Linguistik und...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2011. — 340 p. — (Narr Studienbücher). Speziell auf die Bedürfnisse von BA-Studierenden ausgerichtet, bietet dieses Studienbuch eine interessante und verständliche Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft des Französischen, Italienischen und Spanischen. Neben den traditionellen Teildisziplinen der Sprachwissenschaft werden psycho-, neuro- und...
Helmut Buske, 2010. — 167 p. — (Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 18). Analizar la historia de la lingüística del español equivale a preguntar por la manera en que los estudiosos de ésta contribuyen a definir y propagar una cierta imagen de "la lengua española" como entidad lingüística. Es preciso describir cómo la lingüística participó y participa con sus teorías,...
De Gruyter, 1968. — 256 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 115). Table of contents: Vorwort Inhalt Einleitung Geländeformen Wildwachsende Pflanzen Waldbäume, Holz Das Wasser, seine Regulierung und Nutzung Fischweiher und Fischfang Fischbezeichnungen Schiffahrt Mühle und Mühlteich Weg und Fahrzeug Richtung, Orientierung im Gelände Landmaße und...
Helmut Buske, 2013. — 342 p. — (Romanistik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 20). One of the salient features of modern Romance verbal morphology is the survival of the Latin residues -I/ESC- and -IDI-, which today either occur as "inflectionally-bound" morphemes or operate as "lexically-integrated" formatives. Although -I/ESC- and -IDI- followed comparable evolutionary pathways, so...
Учебник. — М.: Изд-во литературы на иностранных языках, 1952. — 278 c. Предисловие академика В. Ф. Шишмарева. Один из вводных курсов в специальное языкознание. М. В. Сергиевский рассматривает важнейшую проблему романистики - проблему происхождения романских языков. На большом сравнительном материале автор наглядно раскрывает генетическую преемственность, существующую между...
Lincom Europa, 2010. — 230 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 63). This monograph offers an investigation of linguistic and social constraints on three variables (syllable- and word-final (s), syllable-initial (s) and word-final (n) in the Spanish of Salvadorian youth living in Toronto, Canada. Both final (s) and final (n) have been investigated extensively in many...
Lincom Europa, 1998. — 110 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 3). This workbook is intended for use with other teaching manuals, since each chapter contains only the barest resume of the facts, and then gives copious practice to the student by means of exercises. The exercises constitute some 30+% of the volume. In short, the volume is a teacher's aid for teaching a...