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From Latin to Romance - Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (Paperback)
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From Latin to Romance - Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
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This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the
transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging
languages underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving
the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the
changes can be seen in the reduction of the Latin case system; the
appearance of auxiliary verb structures to mark such categories
tense, mood, and voice; and a shift towards greater rigidification
of word order. The author considers how far these changes are
interrelated and compares their various manifestations and pace of
change across the different standard and non-standard varieties of
Romance. He describes the historical background to the emergence of
the Romance varieties and their Latin ancestry, considering in
detail the richly documented diachronic variation exhibited by the
Romance family. Adam Ledgeway reviews the accounts and explanations
that have been proposed within competing theoretical frameworks,
and considers how far traditional ideas should be reinterpreted in
light of recent theoretical developments. His wide-ranging account
shows that the transition from Latin to Romance is not only of
great intrinsic interest, but both provides a means of challenging
linguistic orthodoxies and presents opportunities to shape new
persepctives on language change, structure, and variation.
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