| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 543 pages) |
| Contents |
Latin and the making of the Romance languages / Alberto Varvaro -- The transition from Latin to the Romance languages / Michel Banniard -- Periodization / Roger Wright -- Evidence and sources / Roger Wright -- Koines and Scriptae / Johannes Kabatek -- Contact and borrowing / Marius Sala -- The Romance languages in the Renaissance and after / Helena L. Sanson -- Geography and distribution of the Romance languages in Europe / Alvise Andreose and Lorenzo Renzi -- The sociology of the Romance languages / Alberto Varvaro -- Romance outside the Romania / Mari C. Jones and Christopher J. Pountain -- Creoles / Iris Bachmann |
| Summary |
What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-507) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Romance languages -- History
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- General.
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Romance languages
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Romaanse talen.
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Taalstructuur.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Romance Languages.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Handboeken (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maiden, Martin, 1957- editor.
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Smith, John Charles, 1950- editor.
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Ledgeway, Adam, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781139019996 |
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1139019996 |
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1316023788 |
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9781316023785 |
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1316022595 |
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9781316022597 |
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