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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ti Alkire; Carol G Rosen |
ISBN: | 9780521889155 0521889154 9780521717847 0521717841 |
OCLC Number: | 531718877 |
Description: | viii, 377 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The evolution of stressed vowels -- Early changes in syllable structure and consonants -- Consonant weakening and strengthening -- New palatal consonants -- More about vowels: raising, yod effects, and nasalization -- Verb morphology: the present indicative -- Verb morphology: systemic reorganization -- Noun and adjective morphology -- History and structure of Portuguese: an overview -- History and structure of Romanian: an overview -- Formation of the Romance lexicon -- Emergence of the Romance vernaculars. |
Responsibility: | Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen. |
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'This attractive textbook is a great opportunity to bring the unique historical and typological richness of the Romance languages to today's students of language and linguistics and empower them to continue its exploration on their own. In its carefully gradated approach at complex issues of phonology and morphology, the authors provide readers with an analytical in-depth investigation of the diachronic developments in Spanish, French, and Italian, complemented by coherent sketches of Portuguese and Romanian. The book sets a new standard for focus, relevance, and accuracy of data as well as broadly informed and open-minded assessment of competing explanations offered in the literature. Readers who work their way through the book will come away from it with a structured picture of this fascinating language family spanning 2000 years of varying divergence and convergence.' Dieter Wanner, The Ohio State University 'A user-friendly and straightforward approach to the topic, which cuts through much of the excessive and dense detail of traditional treatments.' Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge Read more...


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- Romance languages -- History.
- Romance languages -- Grammar.
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- Romaanse talen.
- Historische linguïstiek.
- Romanische Sprachen.
- Historische Sprachwissenschaft.
- Sprachwandel.
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