Romance Languages - A Historical Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Ti Alkire is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Besides historical Romance linguistics, his research interests include stylistics, translation theory, and current variation in French and Italian. Carol Rosen is a Professor of Linguistics and Romance Studies at Cornell University. Her work in language typology, grammatical relations, and formal theory design lends a special character to her research in Romance linguistics, ranging over historical and contemporary topics. Klappentext Describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish! French! Italian! Portuguese! and Romanian. Zusammenfassung Ti Alkire and Carol Rosen trace the changes that led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages which ultimately became national or transnational languages: Spanish! French! Italian! Portuguese! and Romanian. This book makes the more difficult issues clear! providing an appealing program of study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The evolution of stressed vowels; 2. Early changes in syllable structure and consonants; 3. Consonant weakening and strengthening; 4. New palatal consonants; 5. More about vowels: raising, yod effects, and nasalization; 6. Verb morphology: the present indicative; 7. Verb morphology: systemic reorganization; 8. Noun and adjective morphology; 9. History and structure of Portuguese: an overview; 10. History and structure of Romanian: an overview; 11. Formation of the Romance lexicon; 12. Emergence of the Romance vernaculars; Suggestions for further reading; Works cited; Index of topics.

Product details

• Authors: Ti Alkire, Ti (Cornell University Alkire, Ti Rosen Alkire, Alkire Ti, Carol Rosen, Carol (Cornell University Rosen, Rosen Carol
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521889155
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88915-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: history & general works, Historical & comparative linguistics, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Historical and comparative linguistics