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Manual of Romance Word Classes

  • Edited by: Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Manuals of Romance Linguistics

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Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publications are regularly devoted to their definition, identification, and classification, in the field of Romance linguistics we lack a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research. This Manual offers an updated and detailed discussion of all relevant aspects related to word classes in the Romance languages. In the first part, word classes are discussed from both a theoretical and historical point of view. The second part of the volume takes as its point of departure single word classes, described transversally in all the main Romance languages, while the third observes the relevant word classes from the point of view of specific Romance(-based) varieties. The fourth part explores Romance word classes at the interface of grammar and other fields of research.

The Manual is intended as a reference work for all scholars and students interested in the description of both the standard, major Romance languages and the smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties.

  • In-depth overviews on all relevant aspects of Romance word classes
  • Theoretical, historical, descriptive, and interdisciplinary points of view
  • Discussion of the major languages and smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties

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Anna-Maria De Cesare, TU Dresden, Germany; Giampaolo Salvi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Manuals of Romance Linguistics

    V
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    Table of Contents

    VII
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    Abbreviations

    XI
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    Introduction

    1
    Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi
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  • I. Romance word classes: theoretical and historical foundations
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    1 Theoretical foundation for a classification of words

    13
    Christian Lehmann
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    2 How to classify words

    41
    Giampaolo Salvi
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    3 Word classes in the history of Western grammar

    69
    Giorgio Graffi
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    4 Parts of speech in the Romance grammars of the Renaissance

    97
    Laurent Vallance
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  • II. Word classes in the major Romance languages
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    5 Nouns

    117
    Ignacio Bosque
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    6 Adjectives

    147
    Adriana Orlandi
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    7 Determiners

    177
    Giuliana Giusti
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    8 Pronouns

    207
    Anna Cardinaletti
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    9 Quantifiers

    237
    Giuliana Giusti and Anna Cardinaletti
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    10 Negation and negative expressions

    265
    Giuliano Bernini
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    11 Verb classes

    297
    Elisabetta Jezek
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    12 Auxiliary verbs

    325
    Luis García Fernández and Diego Gabriel Krivochen
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    13 Grammatical categories of the verb

    345
    Mario Squartini
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    14 Verbal categories expressing syntactic dependencies

    367
    Guido Mensching and Eva-Maria Remberger
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    15 Adverbs

    401
    Martin Hummel
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    16 Focalisers

    431
    Anna-Maria De Cesare
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    17 Modal particles

    449
    Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
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    18 Prepositions

    471
    Ludo Melis
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    19 Conjunctions

    499
    Benjamin Fagard
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  • III. Word classes in smaller Romance varieties
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    20 Word classes in Occitan

    527
    Xavier Bach and Myriam Bras
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    21 Word classes in Sardinian

    549
    Eva-Maria Remberger
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    22 Word classes in Romansh

    575
    Matthias Grünert
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    23 Word classes in Ladin

    607
    Jan Casalicchio
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    24 Word classes in Northern Italian dialects

    633
    Diego Pescarini
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    25 Word classes in Southern Italian dialects

    661
    Adam Ledgeway
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    26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles

    689
    Jean-Louis Rougé and Georges Daniel Véronique
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  • IV. Romance word classes and their interfaces: new horizons
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    27 Word classes and psycholinguistics

    725
    Anna Gavarró and Elena Pagliarini
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    28 Word classes and learner varieties

    743
    Giuliano Bernini
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    29 Word classes and corpus linguistics

    769
    Lorenzo Gregori, Walter Paci and Massimo Moneglia
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    30 Word classes and neurolinguistics

    797
    Domenica Romagno
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    31 Exploring the behaviour of connectives within a textometric perspective

    819
    Corinne Rossari and Claudia Ricci
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    Index

    843
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eBook published on:
September 3, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110746389
Hardcover published on:
September 3, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110745917
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
16
Main content:
850
Illustrations:
9
Coloured Illustrations:
16
Tables:
30
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110746389
eBook ISBN: 9783110746389
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110745917
Keywords for this book
Word Classes; Romance Languages; Lexicon-Grammar Interface; Comparative Perspective
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Romance Studies, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), Language Teachers, Translators
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