1 The key characteristics of language and linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Foreword XVII
4. Acknowledgements XIX
5. Figures XXI
6. Symbols, abbreviations and punctuation XXIII
7. Part 1: The study of Romance linguistics
8. Branches of the Indo-European language family 1
9. 1 The key characteristics of language and linguistics 3
10. 2 Emergence and development of Romance linguistics 24
11. Part 2: Romance languages and varieties today
12. 3 Presentation of the Romance languages 55
13. 4 Variational linguistics and the Romance languages 107
14. Part 3: The internal structures of the Romance languages and their history
15. 5 Domains of language and historical periodisation 163
16. 6 Phonetics, phonology and graphemics 175
17. 7 Inflectional morphology 224
18. 8 Syntax 257
19. 9 Lexis 310
20. Part 4: External history of the Romance languages and varieties
21. 10 External history of the Romance languages and varieties 397
22. Part 5: Practical and ideological aspects of research and teaching in Romance linguistics
23. 11 Philological approaches and corpus linguistics 487
24. 12 From theory to practical work 524
25. Epilogue: On the usefulness of (Romance) linguistics 535
26. References 539
27. Subject index 559
28. Name index 591
29. Works cited 599