Elements Of Comparative Grammar In Five Romance Languages

Author : Fabio de Castro Juvencio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
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Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798707176500

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Elements of Comparative Grammar in Five Romance Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian: an Outline for Intercomprehension by Fabio de Castro Juvencio Pdf

"Elements of Comparative Grammar in Five Romance Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian - an outline for intecomprehension" is a handbook where five Romance languages are compared side by side, using tables, aiming intercomprehension among native speakers of one or several of the Romance languages. Main features:- Eight Elements of Speech compared (Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Pronouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives) in five language- Proposed taxonomy for classification of all Elements of Speech- More than 80 comparative tables- More than 4,300 words and expressions in six languages, including English- Appendices with numerals in 6 languages, phonetical equivalents, time & calendar terms in 6 languages and syntactic structures in all five languages- Over 70 curated references on Romance Philology and Romance Languages

Author : Robert A. Hall, Jr.
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280145

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Proto-Romance Morphology by Robert A. Hall, Jr. Pdf

This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. The second volume (1976, Elsevier) treats the phonology of their common source, Proto-Romance. Together these three volumes aim to cast light, not only on Popular Latin speech by means of its surviving elements in the Romance languages, but also on the extent to which the comparative method can be regarded as valid and useful in instances where no attestations are available for a language as closely related to the reconstructed proto-language as high Classical Latin was to Proto-Romance.

Author : Joshua Rudder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Romance languages
ISBN : 1475246633

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The Grammar of Romance by Joshua Rudder Pdf

This original guide introduces you to the basic grammar of Vulgar Latin and the Romance languages. Compare related languages to understand how nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, words, phrases and sentences work throughout this language family. Challenge yourself to see commonalities among a range of Romance languages and to understand their shared history from Vulgar Latin. View examples from major Romance languages like Portuguese, French and Romanian, as well as many regional languages like Catalan, Sardinian and Romansh.Clear formatting and a thorough index allow you to identify key terms and quickly cross-reference relevant sections for more information. Romance examples are printed in bold, translations in italics and key grammar terms tackled elsewhere in the book are underlined.Extra materials include comparative grammar tables with notes, a brief tour of Vulgar Latin grammar, a chapter on the pronunciation of Romance, helpful maps and a glossary of language names. Balanced explanations and examples, a thorough index and a clear table of contents make this the ideal reference guide for students and enthusiasts of the Romance languages, Vulgar Latin/Proto-Romance or Romance linguistics.

Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027203816

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory by Enoch Oladé Aboh Pdf

The volumes "Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from Going Romance " contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 21st edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the Chair of Romance Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam in December 2007. The range of languages (both standard and non-standard varieties) analyzed in this volume is quite significant: Catalan, French, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. The volume is quite representative of the spread of the variety of research carried out nowadays on Romance languages within theoretical linguistics and shows the vitality of this research."

Author : Gabriela Pană Dindelegan,Irina Nicula
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527509498

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Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romance Syntax by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan,Irina Nicula Pdf

The volume brings together fifteen papers focusing on the morphosyntax of different Romance varieties. It is based on papers presented at the workshop bearing the same title held at the University of Bucharest in November 2015 and is dedicated to Professor Martin Maiden of the University of Oxford in honour of his 60th birthday. The contributions tackle different theoretical issues concerning current linguistic theory (relevant both for comparative and diachronic approaches), including parameters, features and their hierarchical organization, word order changes, the level of verb movement in different varieties, inflected infinitives, clitic placement and clitic doubling, ethical datives, and personal subject pronouns, among others. As such, the volume represents diverse theoretical approaches to addressing a number of key morphological and syntactic issues in the morphosyntactic development of the Romance languages, drawing on modern research methods and current linguistic theory, with a clear preference for parametric syntax. The most significant areas of grammar are well-represented here. The volume will appeal to advanced graduate and postgraduate students in diachronic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and Romance linguistics, as well as researchers in the fields of historical and typological linguistics, morphosyntactic theory, and the history of the Romance languages.

Author : Robert Anderson Hall
Publisher : New York : American Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015002984600

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External History of the Romance Languages by Robert Anderson Hall Pdf

Comparative romance grammar/Robert A. Hall.-v.1.

Author : Friedrich Diez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Romance languages
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086585791

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Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages by Friedrich Diez Pdf

Author : Friedrich Diez
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230265031

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Introduction to the Grammar of the Romance Languages by Friedrich Diez Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... ELEMENTS AND JURISDICTIONS OF THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES. I. Latin Elements. Our attention is claimed by six Romance languages on account of either their grammatical peculiarities, or their literary importance; two towards the east, the Italian and the Walachian; two towards the southwest, the Spanish and the Portuguese; and two towards the northwest, the Provencal and the French. The principal and most conspicuous source of all these languages is [Latin.'! They were derived however, as it has already been often and legitimately maintained, not from the classical Latin of literature, but from a popular Roman language which had been used by the side of the classical. Some care has been taken to prove, from the testimonies of the ancients themselves, that a popular language of this kind was actually in existence; but the fact is so far from needing demonstration, that we should much rather have been entitled to demand evidences for a contrary hypothesis, which alone would have involved an exception to general laws. We must only be cautious not to take this form of speech for anything else than it is usually conceived to have been, that is to say, for a vulgar usage of the common language, recognisable by a comparatively slovenly pronunciation of words, by a tendency to the elimination of grammatical forms, by the use of numerous expressions which are avoided in literature, and by sundry peculiar idioms and constructions. Such conclusions, and no others, are we justified in drawing from the evidences and testimonies which we find in the writings of the ancients; or at the very utmost it may be conceded, that the antagonism between the popular and the literary language had reached an unusually high pitch at that period when the latter sank into a...

Author : Sam Wolfe,Christine Meklenborg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192578051

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Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance by Sam Wolfe,Christine Meklenborg Pdf

This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by over a billion people today, have played a central role in linguistic research, but many significant questions remain about the relationship between them. Following an introduction that sets out the methodological, empirical, and theoretical background to the book, the volume is divided into three parts that deal with the morphosyntax of subjects and the inflectional layer; inversion, discourse pragmatics, and the left periphery; and continuity and variation beyond the clause. The contributors adopt a diverse range of approaches, making use of the latest digitized corpora and presenting a mixture of well-known and under-studied data from standard and non-standard Germanic and Romance languages. Many of the chapters challenge received wisdom about the relationship between these two important language families. The volume will be an indispensable resource for researchers and students in the fields of Germanic and Romance linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, and morphosyntax.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199677108

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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages by Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden Pdf

Series statement "Oxford linguistics" from jacket.

Author : Raffaella Zanuttini
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Italian language
ISBN : 9780195080551

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Negation and Clausal Structure by Raffaella Zanuttini Pdf

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 there are on the syntactic options that universal grammar imposes on the expression of sentential negation.

Author : Karen T. Zagona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236371

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Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages by Karen T. Zagona Pdf

This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies — both within the Romance family and with non-Romance languages (Basque, Bulgarian, Germanic and Quechua). Papers in phonetics and phonology treat stress, syllable structure, s-weakening, and the declination effect. Morphological topics include class-marker suppression and gender agreement and suppletion. Topics in syntactic theory include clitics, participial and adjectival agreement, the syntax of tense, mood, negation, adjectival predication, Tough-constructions, quantification and null objects.

Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393

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The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner Pdf

What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? 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, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.

Author : Deborah L. Arteaga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030110062

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Contributions of Romance Languages to Current Linguistic Theory by Deborah L. Arteaga Pdf

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields. The book offers chapters on a range of Romance languages and dialects, including Canadian French, Standard French, Modern French, Sardinian, Sicilian, and Spanish. Other chapters focus on diachronic topics on French and Italian. The volume will be of interest to researchers looking for current research in linguistics on the Romance languages. It will also serve as a reference volume or supplemental reading for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics.

Author : Petra Sleeman,Harry Perridon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287298

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The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic by Petra Sleeman,Harry Perridon Pdf

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.