The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

by Ledgeway, Adam; Maiden, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780199677108
• ISBN10: 0199677107
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191063251
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-08-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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 Beninca 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).

Table of Contents

Series preface
Abbreviations
The Contributors
Introduction
Part I: The Making of the Romance Languages
1. Latin as a source for the Romance Languages, James Clackson
2. Latin and Romance in the medieval period: A sociophilological approach, Roger Wright
3. Early evidence and sources, Barbara Frank-Job and Maria Selig
Part II: Typology and Classification
4. A structural comparison of Latin and Romance, Nigel Vincent
5. Romance: A typological approach, Paolo Ramat and Davide Ricca
6. Classifications, Georg Bossong
7. Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry, Hans Goebl
Part III: Individual Structural Overviews
8. Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Aromanian, Martin Maiden
9. Dalmatian, Martin Maiden
10. Friulian, Paola Beninca and Laura Vanelli
11. Ladin, Giampaolo Salvi
12. Romansh (Rumantsch), Stephen R. Anderson
13. The dialects of northern Italy, Paola Beninca, Mair Parry, and Diego Pescarini
14. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican, Adam Ledgeway
15. The dialects of central Italy, Michele Loporcaro and Tania Paciaroni
16. The dialects of southern Italy, Adam Ledgeway
17. Sardinian, Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger
18. French and northern Gallo-Romance, John Charles Smith
19. Southern Gallo-Romance, Michele Olivieri and Patrick Sauzet
20. Francoprovencal, Andres Kristol
21. Catalan, Alex Alsina
22. Spanish, Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese, Judaeo-Spanish, Donald N. Tuten, Enrique Pato, and Ora R. Schwarzwald
23. Galician and Portuguese, Francisco Dubert and Charlotte Galves
24. Creoles, Annegret Bollee and Philippe Maurer
Part IV: Comparative Overviews
Phonology
25. Segmental phonology, Stephan Schmid
26. Prosodic structure, Giovanna Marotta
Morphology
27. Inflectional morphology, Martin Maiden
28. Derivational morphology, Franz Rainer
29. Compounding, Francesca Forza and Sergio Scalise
Syntax
30. The structure of the nominal group, Giuliana Giusti
31. The structure of the clause, Silvio Cruschina and Adam Ledgeway
Semantics and Pragmatics
32. Lexical stability and shared lexicon, Steven N. Dworkin
33. Onomasiological differentiation, Ingmar Sohrman
34. Information and discourse structure, Silvio Cruschina
Sociolinguistics
35. Sociolinguistic variation, Mari C. Jones, Mair Parry, and Lynn Williams
36. Diglossia, Johannes Kabatek
37. Standardization, Christopher J. Pountain
Part V: Issues in Romance Phonology
38. Diphthongization, Martin Maiden
39. Palatalization, Lori Repetti
40. Sandhi phenomena, Rodney Sampson
41. Writing systems, Thomas Finbow
Part VI: Issues in Romance Morphology
42. Number, Martin Maiden
43. Morphomes, Martin Maiden
44. Tonic pronominal system: Morphophonology, Chiara Cappellaro
45. Clitic pronominal system: Morphophonology, Diego Pescarini
Part VII: Issues in Romance Syntax
46. Functional categories, Adam Ledgeway
47. Subject clitics: Syntax, Cecilia Poletto and Christina Tortora
48. Object clitics, Ian Roberts
49. Auxiliary selection and participial agreement, Michele Loporcaro
Part VIII: Issues in Romance Syntax and Semantics
50. Split intransitivity, Delia Bentley
51. Negation, Cecilia Poletto
52. Copular and existential constructions, Delia Bentley and Francesco Maria Ciconte
Part IX: Issues in Romance Pragmatics and Discourse
53. Illocutionary force, Ion Giurgea and Eva-Maria Remberger
54. Deixis, Adam Ledgeway and John Charles Smith
55. Address systems, Richard Ashdowne
Part X: Case Studies
The Nominal Group
56. Case, Adina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae
57. Gender, Michele Loporcaro
The Verbal Group
58. Tense and aspect, Pier Marco Bertinetto and Mario Squartini
59. Mood, Josep Quer
60. Voice, Michela Cennamo
61. Complex predicates, Michelle Sheehan
The Clause
62. Word order, Giampaolo Salvi
63. Clausal complementation, Adam Ledgeway
64. Relative clauses, Elisabeth Stark
References
Index