The articles in this festschrift for the Romance studies scholar Gerhard Ernst (Regensburg) concentrate on topics that have been a constant preoccupation of his research and teaching throughout his career, notably language varieties, with special reference to Roman urban dialect and the history of language. The volume's major emphasis is on a discussion of Italian, French, and Romanian, both from the diachronic and the synchronic perspective.

Das bewAhrte Arbeitsheft fA1/4hrt in die wichtigsten Teilbereiche der synchronen und diachronen Linguistik des Italienischen ein, wobei besonderes Augenmerk auf die Dialektologie und Sprachgeschichte gelegt wird.