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New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7-9, 1988

By Dieter Wanner , Douglas A. Kibbee (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
902723566X, 9789027235664
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (36730472 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 69
Edition
1st
Pages
403\425
Time added
2014-07-04 14:44:14

Description

The twenty papers from the eighteenth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages deal with diverse aspects of the Romance languages and Romance linguistics. They reflect the current state of Romance studies in North America and of the particular outlook among the international group of contributors and participants to LSRL 18. The thriving research front accords central importance to formal questions of synchronic analysis. The group of seven historical and typological papers amounts to a strong alternative. Several papers treat the group of Romance languages not only as a well-defined, almost exclusive research province, but move from Romance phenomena outward to other language types, even to genuinely universal dimensions. Other contributions maintain a more circumscribed outlook exploiting the typological closeness of the Romance idioms for improved analyses. Three invited contributions by Georg Bossong, Yves Charles-Morin and Maria-Luisa Rivero on typological, phonological and syntactic questions set the tone for the volume.

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