The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages

Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His research interests include Italian dialectology, the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Latin, syntactic theory, and linguistic change. He is co-editor, with Martin Maiden and John Charles Smith, of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013) and, with Paola Benincà and Nigel Vincent, of Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy (OUP, 2014), and author of From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015).Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He became a fellow of the British Academy in 2003, and is Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. His recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (co-edited with Adam Ledgeway and John Charles Smith; CUP, 2011/2013), The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (co-edited with Silvio Cruschina and John Charles Smith; OUP, 2013), and Morphological Autonomy (co-edited with John Charles Smith, Maria Goldbach, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin; OUP, 2011).

• PART I: THE MAKING OF THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES; PART II: TYPOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION; PART III: INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURAL OVERVIEWS; PART IV: COMPARATIVE OVERVIEWS; PHONOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; SYNTAX; SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; PART V: ISSUES IN ROMANCE PHONOLOGY; PART VI: ISSUES IN ROMANCE MORPHOLOGY; PART VII: ISSUES IN ROMANCE SYNTAX; PART VIII: ISSUES IN ROMANCE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS; PART IX: ISSUES IN ROMANCE PRAGMATICS AND DISCOURSE; PART X: CASE STUDIES; THE NOMINAL GROUP; THE VERBAL GROUP; THE CLAUSE

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