The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor Martin Maiden is Professor of Romance Languages and Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His recent publications include A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian, Second Edition (with Cecilia Robustelli, 2007). John Charles Smith is a Lecturer in French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has published widely on agreement, refunctionalization, deixis, and the evolution of case and pronoun systems, with particular reference to Romance. Adam Ledgeway is Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His recent publications include Grammatica diacronica del dialetto napoletano (2009). Klappentext The most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. Zusammenfassung The most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English! offering major and original insights into the subject. Volume 1 is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Romance linguistics and historical linguistics. Reflections on synchrony and diachrony Rosanna Sornicola; 2. Syllable, segment and prosody Michele Loporcaro; 3. Phonological processes Michele Loporcaro; 4. Morphophonological persistence Martin Maiden; 5. Morphophonological innovation Martin Maiden; 6. Change and continuity in form-function relationships John Charles Smith; 7. Morphosyntactic persistence from Latin into Romance Giampaolo Salvi; 8. Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change in Latin and Romance Adam Ledgeway; 9. Pragmatic and discourse changes from Latin to Romance Maria Manoliu; 10. Word formation Brigitte Bauer; 11. Lexical stability Arnulf Stefenelli; 12. Lexical change Steven Dworkin; 13. Latin and the structure of written Romance Christopher Pountain; 14. Slangs and jargons John Trumper....

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden
• Collaboration: Adam Ledgeway (Editeur), Adam (Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology Ledgeway (Editeur), Ledgeway Adam (Editeur), Martin Maiden (Editeur), Martin (University of Oxford) Maiden (Editeur), Maiden Martin (Editeur), J. C. Smith (Editeur), John Charles Smith (Editeur), John Charles (St Catherine's College Smith (Editeur), Smith John Charles (Editeur), Nigel Vincent (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521800723
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80072-3
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 47 mm
• Thèmes: Cambridge History of the Roman; Cambridge History of the Roman
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Autres; Linguistics, Italische Sprachen, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages