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      • Volume 1: Structures
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2011
      02 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511780134
      9780521800723
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521800723
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.5kg, 888 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      European Language and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Literature
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    Subjects:
    European Language and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume 1 is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.

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    '… an authoritative overview of some of the most relevant topics in Romance historical and comparative linguistics … this is a reference work that all linguists researching any of the Romance languages should take into consideration, from phonologists to sociolinguists to syntacticians.'

    Miquel Simonet Source: Journal of Sociolinguistics

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