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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.

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Author:   Adam Ledgeway (Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge) ,  Martin Maiden (Professor of the Romance Languages, Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 6.50cm , Length: 28.30cm
Weight:   2.988kg
ISBN:  

9780199677108

ISBN 10:   0199677107
Pages:   1248
Publication Date:   30 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Benincà and Laura Vanelli: Friulian 11: Giampaolo Salvi: Ladin 12: Stephen R. Anderson: Romansh (Rumantsch) 13: Paola Benincà, 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: Michèle Oliviéri and Patrick Sauzet: Southern Gallo-Romance (Occitan) 20: Andres Kristol: Francoprovençal 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 Bollée 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 Söhrman: 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

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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).

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