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Routledge Language Family
The Romance Languages
Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.
- GenresLanguageLinguistics
516 pages, Hardcover
First published January 28, 1988
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April 24, 2024
comprehensive, each chapter was pretty segmented, with less comparison to other language changes than the other romance history book i read. again, big focus on phonology and morphosyntax, not really pragmatics.
July 26, 2018
Not a single work, but a curated compilation of linguistic analyses by various linguists of major modern romance languages and their evolutions from Latin. The quality and style among the chapters vary therefore.
Many, if not most, of my linguistics assignments came back to me with the notation "terse," which never really affected my delivery, back then, unfortunately; but with this book, I finally got the point of those teacher comments. All in all this book is very readable to the student and lifelong language geek like me, despite its terse segments. Recently (circa 2017–18) I've been picking up more volumes with similar subject matter; but having not yet delved into them I can not yet compare. Sadly it is also a personal issue, not this book's fault, that I never finished reading the entire thing. Compendia are my downfall where my ADD takes over and I get distracted for years at a time. :D
Many, if not most, of my linguistics assignments came back to me with the notation "terse," which never really affected my delivery, back then, unfortunately; but with this book, I finally got the point of those teacher comments. All in all this book is very readable to the student and lifelong language geek like me, despite its terse segments. Recently (circa 2017–18) I've been picking up more volumes with similar subject matter; but having not yet delved into them I can not yet compare. Sadly it is also a personal issue, not this book's fault, that I never finished reading the entire thing. Compendia are my downfall where my ADD takes over and I get distracted for years at a time. :D
April 15, 2008
A fairly comprehensive survey of Romance liguistics.
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