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variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages of a kind unparal-leled for any other Western languages. Asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in what a knowledge of the Romance evidence can contribute to linguistic theory. adam ledgeway
Table 1: Areal classification of the major Romance languages The following two maps show the worldwide distribution of the Romance lan-guages and the European Romance language areas. Figure 1 shows the areas where Romance languages are spoken as L1 but also those areas (particularly in Africa)
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In relation to the former, the chapter examines whether Romance forms a typologically coherent linguistic grouping, highlighting to what extent the Romance languages form a continuum of mutually intelligible speech varieties, and the shared features, if any, which serve to bind the group together.
Though it is quite clear which languages can be classified as Romance, on the basis primarily of lexical (vocabulary) and morphological (structural) similarities, the subgrouping of the languages within the family is less straightforward. Most classifications are, overtly or covertly, historico-geographic—so that Spanish and Portuguese are ...
Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study.
