Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Romance word classes: theoretical and historical foundations
7. 1 Theoretical foundation for a classification of words 13
8. 2 How to classify words 41
9. 3 Word classes in the history of Western grammar 69
10. 4 Parts of speech in the Romance grammars of the Renaissance 97
11. II. Word classes in the major Romance languages
12. 5 Nouns 117
13. 6 Adjectives 147
14. 7 Determiners 177
15. 8 Pronouns 207
16. 9 Quantifiers 237
17. 10 Negation and negative expressions 265
18. 11 Verb classes 297
19. 12 Auxiliary verbs 325
20. 13 Grammatical categories of the verb 345
21. 14 Verbal categories expressing syntactic dependencies 367
22. 15 Adverbs 401
23. 16 Focalisers 431
24. 17 Modal particles 449
25. 18 Prepositions 471
26. 19 Conjunctions 499
27. III. Word classes in smaller Romance varieties
28. 20 Word classes in Occitan 527
29. 21 Word classes in Sardinian 549
30. 22 Word classes in Romansh 575
31. 23 Word classes in Ladin 607
32. 24 Word classes in Northern Italian dialects 633
33. 25 Word classes in Southern Italian dialects 661
34. 26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles 689
35. IV. Romance word classes and their interfaces: new horizons
36. 27 Word classes and psycholinguistics 725
37. 28 Word classes and learner varieties 743
38. 29 Word classes and corpus linguistics 769
39. 30 Word classes and neurolinguistics 797
40. 31 Exploring the behaviour of connectives within a textometric perspective 819
41. Index 843