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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (co-edited with Maiden, 2016). martin maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford. Recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, Vols 1 2 (2011 13) and The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (co-edited with Ledgeway, 2016).
The first attempt to classify the Romance languages was made by Dante Alighieri, in his De vulgari eloquentia (written c.1305).The principal aim of this treatise was the search for a unified literary language in Italy; its publication in the Renaissance, more than two centuries after its composition, incited the debate on the so-called questione della lingua (‘language question’), which ...
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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 ...
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MARTIN MAIDEN is Professor of the 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, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His recent publications include A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian (with Cecilia Robustelli, 2007).
The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
Jun 30, 2016 · This book is as an essential tool for both Romance linguists and general linguists which brings together leading recent international scholarship in individual Romance varieties and from different theoretical frameworks and approaches, showing how each may cast new and necessary light on the other. It offers a detailed structural treatment of ...
five Romance standards (210-321; see below), together with an overview of issues of classification and nomenclature: 'Romance languages' by J. N. Green (203-09). August Dauses, Die romanischen Sprachen im Vergleich, Stuttgart, Steiner, 91 pp., is an elegant essay on the methodology of classification, bravely tackling both the hier
