The Romance Languages: A Linguistic IntroductionAnchor Books, 1966 - 336 pàgines "How do the Romance languages reflect the temperament of the peoples who speak them? On what basis can it be asserted that they descend from a common mother tongue? What historical and geographical factors molded their different structures and phonetic qualities? These are a few of the vital questions explored in this comprehensive linguistic study of the five major Romance languages - French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Using a unique comparative approach, Rebecca Posner analyzes the historical development, internal structure, and present-day variants and dialects of each language, bringing into relief both he similarities and the differences in the famous constellation of Latin tongues."--Back cover. |
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THE LATIN FOUNDATION | 17 |
EARLY NONLATIN INFLUENCES | 170 |
THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF ROMANCE | 212 |
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accent adjective already appears Appendix Probi Arabic Aragon attested Basque became borrowed Byzantine Castilian Catalan Celtic century Chanson Christian Classical Latin consonant declension derive dialects diphthong early east Empire evolution example fact favoured feminine flexions forms Frankish Franks Gallo-Romance Gascon Gaul Germ Germanic glosses Greek Iberian Peninsula influence intervocalic Italian Italy Langobardic langue later linguistic literary masc masculine meaning medieval modern French Mozarabic neuter northern France Oaths Old French Old Ital Old Span origin Ostrogoths palatalization participle persisted person plural phonetic plosives poem Port Portuguese preserved probably pronoun Prov Provençal region remained Rheto-Romance Romance languages Romania Rome Rumanian sainte sainte Foi Sardinia similar singular southern Italy Spain Spanish spoken Latin standard suffix survived tense territory texts tion tonic usage verb vernacular Visigoths vocabulary vowel Vulgar Latin whence words