Romance Books Collection

Negation and Clausal Structure By:Raffaella Zanuttini Published on 1997 by Oxford University Press, USA 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 individual languages employ different syntactic strategies for the expression of the same semantic function of negating a sentence. Zanuttini's goal here is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the different syntactic means for expressing sentential negation exhibited by the members of one language family--the Romance languages--and by reducing the differences we witness to a constrained set of choices available to the particular grammars of these languages. This sort of analysis is a first step towards the ultimate goal of determining and understanding what limits ther...

The Romance Languages By:Rebecca Posner Published on 1996-09-05 by Cambridge University Press What is a Romance language? How is it related to other Romance languages, 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, and relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This Book was ranked at 11 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of The Romance Languages's Books is FtxywY_6g4UC, Book which was written byRebecca Posnerhave ETAG "fwI9HnL3Htg" Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 1996-09-05 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code...

The Rhaeto-Romance Languages By:John Haiman,Paola Benincà Published on 1992 by Psychology Press The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity, based on a number of common features, has been advanced. This book is the first general description of the Rhaeto-Romance languages to be written in English. It provides a critical examination of the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of the modern Rhaeto-Romance dialects within the broader perspective of Romance comparative linguistics. This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of The Rhaeto-Romance Languages's Books is tlGnxqMToQIC, Book which was written byJohn Haiman,Paola Benincàhave ETAG "/ukk4QvwgAo" Book which was published by Psycho...

New Analyses in Romance Linguistics By:Dieter Wanner,Douglas A. Kibbee Published on 1991 by John Benjamins Publishing Company The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors and participants to LSRL 18. The thriving research front accords central importance to formal questions of synchronic analysis. The group of seven historical and typological papers amounts to a strong alternative. Several papers treat the group of Romance languages not only as a well-defined, almost exclusive research province, but move from Romance phenomena outward to other language types, even to genuinely universal dimensions. Other contributions maintain a more circumscribed outlook exploiting the typological closeness of the Romance idioms for improved analyses. ...

From Latin to Romance in Sound Charts By:Peter Boyd-Bowman Published on 1980 by Georgetown University Press This handbook offers a synopsis of the regular changes that Latin words underwent in the course of their evolution into modern Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, with their English cognates). Although it is intended for the nonspecialist, students of Romance philology will find it useful as a ready reference and as a source of abundant examples of Latin sound changes. The synopsis is presented in the form of separate alphabetical charts for each major sound change. The rules, stated as simply as possible, do not generally explain the evolution of the changes, but only the end results. For those desiring further information, there are notes after most rules outlining exceptions to or modifications of that rule and often sketching successive stages in the development of the sound. Several minor or sporadic sound changes are also treated in note form. Each ...

Romance Languages By:Ti Alkire,Carol Rosen Published on 2010-06-24 by Cambridge University Press Describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. This Book was ranked at 10 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of Romance Languages's Books is 9P3Ifze8gUQC, Book which was written byTi Alkire,Carol Rosenhave ETAG "20K+gQCP7oM" Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 2010-06-24 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780521889155 and ISBN 10 Code is 0521889154 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "377 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryForeign Language Study This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages By:Roger Wright Published on 1991 by Penn State Press This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important interdisciplinary conference held at Rutgers University in 1989. Eighteen internationally known specialists in linguistics, history, philology, Latin, and Romance languages tackle the difficult question of how and when Latin evolved into the Romance languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The result is a stimulating and open exchange that offers the most up-to-date and accessible coverage of the topic. Contributors are Paul M. Lloyd, Tore Janson, J&ózsef Herman, Alberto Varvaro, Thomas D. Cravens, Harm Pinkster, John N. Green, Roger Wright, Marc Van Uytfanghe, Rosamond McKitterick, Katrien Heene, Michel Banniard, Birte Stengaard, Carmen Pensado, Thomas J. Walsh, Robert Blake, Ant&ónio Emiliano, and Marcel Danesi. This Book was ranked at 24 by Google Books for keywo...