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Indefinites Between Latin and Romance

Author : Chiara Gianollo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191850448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Indefinites Between Latin and Romance written by Chiara Gianollo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners between Latin and the Romance languages. It uses data from Classical and Late Latin texts and from electronic corpora of early Romance to propose a new account of the similarities in the grammar of indefinites across Romance.

Indefinites Between Latin and Romance

Author : Chiara Gianollo
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
ISBN 13 : 0198812663
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Indefinites Between Latin and Romance written by Chiara Gianollo and published by Oxford Studies in Diachronic a. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no', and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these elements have undergone significant diachronic change since the Classical Latin period, the modern Romance languages show a remarkable degree of similarity in the way their systems of indefinites have evolved and are structured today. In this volume, Chiara Gianollo draws on data from Classical and Late Latin texts, and from electronic corpora of the early stages of various Romance languages, to propose a new account of these similarities. The focus is primarily on Late Latin: at this stage, the grammar of indefinites already shows a number of changes, which are homogeneously transmitted to the daughter languages, leading to parallelism in the various emerging Romance systems. The volume demonstrates the value of using methods and models from synchronic theoretical linguistics for investigating diachronic phenomena, as well as the importance of diachronic research in understanding the nature of crosslinguistic variation and language change.

Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages

Author : Roger Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044667
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages by : Roger Wright

Download or read book Latin and the Romance Languages in the Middle Ages written by Roger Wright and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important interdisciplinary conference held at Rutgers University in 1989. Eighteen internationally known specialists in linguistics, history, philology, Latin, and Romance languages tackle the difficult question of how and when Latin evolved into the Romance languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The result is a stimulating and open exchange that offers the most up-to-date and accessible coverage of the topic. Contributors are Paul M. Lloyd, Tore Janson, J&ózsef Herman, Alberto Varvaro, Thomas D. Cravens, Harm Pinkster, John N. Green, Roger Wright, Marc Van Uytfanghe, Rosamond McKitterick, Katrien Heene, Michel Banniard, Birte Stengaard, Carmen Pensado, Thomas J. Walsh, Robert Blake, Ant&ónio Emiliano, and Marcel Danesi.

Gender from Latin to Romance

Author : Michele Loporcaro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191848100
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Gender from Latin to Romance written by Michele Loporcaro and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. It outlines the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard and uses this variation to show that traditional accounts of the loss of neuter gender cannot be correct.

The Romance Languages

Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134712294
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis The Romance Languages by : Martin Harris

Download or read book The Romance Languages written by Martin Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.

Past Participles from Latin to Romance

Author : Richard Laurent
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098323
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Past Participles from Latin to Romance written by Richard Laurent and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Latin through the Romance languages, which types of past participle survived? Which older, "irregular" types disappeared and which older, "regular" types proliferated? Which new types of past participles emerged, which proved popular in standard Romance languages, and which exist in a wide range of dialects? The author explores reasons for the expansion or contraction of each type, in each area.

Romance Did Not Begin in Rome

Author : Carme Huertas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984030214
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Romance Did Not Begin in Rome by : Carme Huertas

Download or read book Romance Did Not Begin in Rome written by Carme Huertas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, we have been taught that Romance languages come from Latin. Historical grammar has described this process on the basis of a complicated theoretical framework of successive changes that caused a deep transformation of the parent tongue, which degenerated into the so-called Vulgar Latin. However, as shown in recent research, on a morphosyntactic structure level, linguistic change is a very slow process. Some of the internal changes of a language do not occur over centuries but rather could be traced back over millenia. Why does historical grammar attribute to external influences the evolutionary process from Classical to Vulgar Latin and disregard the fact that it could be caused by the substrate language or languages? Some features of those languages would have survived the Romanization and point to an older common ancestor, an agglutinative and compositional language shared by the various Mediterranean peoples and from which the so-called Romance languages would stem. This work presents some new research hypotheses, which show that Romance languages share a high percentage of phonetic, lexical, morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics, showing a close kinship to a linguistic typology that relates them to each other but distances them from Latin. It is focused on Spanish although some examples are included in different Romances, such as the Romanian language which retains some aspects that help us to get closer to this common parent tongue. How can it be that the Romanian language has survived isolated so many tough, non-Romance invasions? The structural, lexical, phonetic and conceptual similarities between Romanian and the rest of Western Romance languages -distant languages whose people have not been in direct contact for at least two thousand years- suggests an earlier common language which must be much older than Latin. Therefore, the characteristics of the Romance languages might have evolved directly from this common, previous language, without having to justify this development through Latin. The relationship between Romance languages and Latin would then be of kinship and not filiation. The evidence is increasingly conclusive: Romance languages do not originate in Latin. Foreword by Cristina Brescan.

Readings in Romance Linguistics

Author : James M. Anderson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110876671
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Romance Linguistics written by James M. Anderson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Readings in Romance Linguistics".

From Latin to Romance

Author : Adam Ledgeway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199584376
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book From Latin to Romance written by Adam Ledgeway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines grammatical changes during the transition from Latin to the Romance languages and the factors proposed to explain them. It challenges orthodoxy, presents new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation, and will appeal equally to Romance linguists, Latinists, philologists, and historical linguists of all persuasions.

Romance Trends in 7th and 8th Century Latin Documents

Author : Frieda N. Politzer
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Romance Trends in 7th and 8th Century Latin Documents by : Frieda N. Politzer

Download or read book Romance Trends in 7th and 8th Century Latin Documents written by Frieda N. Politzer and published by Unc Department of Romance Studies. This book was released on 1953 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert L. Politzer, in collaboration with his wife, Frieda N. Politzer, created a study of the vulgarisms in the Merovingian documents in France and the Lombard documents in Italy. The results support what has been generally believed about the progress of Vulgar Latin in those areas.

The Grammar of Romance

Author : Joshua Rudder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781475246636
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Romance written by Joshua Rudder and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

Author : I. Mackenzie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230627552
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages by : I. Mackenzie

Download or read book Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages written by I. Mackenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics. The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large amount of new and surprising data from Italian, Spanish, French and Catalan.

Romance Languages

Author : Ti Alkire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521889154
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Romance Languages written by Ti Alkire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

The Development of Latin Clause Structure

Author : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198759525
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Development of Latin Clause Structure by : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert

Download or read book The Development of Latin Clause Structure written by Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations, focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until 600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation, and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns. Four pieces of evidence are presented that suggest that Latin is indeed a fully configurational language, despite its high degree of word order flexibility. Specifically, it is shown that there is ample evidence for the existence of a verb phrase constituent. The book thus contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the status of configurationality as a language universal.

Verb Second in Medieval Romance

Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
ISBN 13 : 0198804679
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Verb Second in Medieval Romance by : Sam Wolfe

Download or read book Verb Second in Medieval Romance written by Sam Wolfe and published by Oxford Studies in Diachronic a. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and Sardinian, in order to assess whether these were indeed Verb Second languages. Sam Wolfe argues that V-to-C movement is a point of continuity across all the medieval varieties - unlike in the modern Romance languages - but that there are rich patterns of synchronic and diachronic variation in the medieval period that have not previously been observed and investigated. These include differences in the syntax-pragmatics mapping, the locus of verb movement, the behaviour of clitic pronouns, the syntax of subject positions, matrix/embedded asymmetries, and the null argument properties of the languages in question. The book outlines a detailed formal cartographic analysis of both the attested synchronic patterns and the diachronic evolution of Romance clausal structure. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the modern Romance languages.

Romance Languages

Author : Ti Alkire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511728808
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Romance Languages written by Ti Alkire and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Epistemic Indefinites

Author : Luis Alonso-Ovalle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019966529X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Indefinites written by Luis Alonso-Ovalle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of certain indefinite expressions that also convey modality. These epistemic indefinites are determiners or pronouns that signal ignorance on the part of the speaker, such as German irgendein and Spanish algun: the sentence Maria se caso con algun medico ('Maria married some doctor or other') both makes an existential statement that there is a doctor that Maria married and signals the speaker's inability or unwillingness to identify the doctor in question. Although epistemic indefinites have featured in recent semantic literature, a full understanding of the phenomenon is still lacking: there is currently no agreement on the source of their epistemic component; there is insufficient cross-linguistic data to develop a semantic typology of these items; and the parallelisms and differences between epistemic indefinites and other expressions that convey epistemic modality have not been explored in depth. In this volume, a team of experts in the field offer novel empirical observations and important theoretical insights on epistemic indefinites and related topics such as modal free relatives, modified numerals, and epistemic modals. They provide a coherent overview of the issues that shape the subject as well as placing them in the context of current semantic research, moving towards the development of a semantic typology of epistemic indefinites that explores the place of these expressions within a general typology of modal items.