The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Groeber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Groeber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

The book provides a thorough and systematic description of the syntax of Old Occitan. The syntactic properties of the medieval language are illustrated through a wealth of examples chosen from a variety of texts, literary as well as non-literary: the "Boeci," the "Chanson de Sainte-Foi d'Agen," the "Chartes," the "Vie de Sainte Enimie," "Flamenca," "JaufrA(c)" and, above all, the poetry of the troubadoures. Conceived in accordance with traditional philological models, the work is easily accessible to scholars and students in the field of Occitan language and literature. This general presentation fills a long-standing lacuna in the bibliography of Occitan and, in a broader perspective, of Romance philology.

The book is for the manager tackling the integration of multiple management standards, such as for quality, environment, energy reduction, occupational health & safety, finances and other requirements that we often end up bolting together with resulting inefficiencies due to conflicting approaches and duplication of efforts. A well-integrated management system will simultaneously provide people with a guide to prevent doing wrong and a platform to doing right from. A bad system will put them in a straightjacket and prevent them from doing right. The book is divided into bite-sized sections, overall introducing a management system framework that is compatible with and combines various management systems standards published by the International Standards Organization. The framework is suitable for the integrated implementation of ISO 9001(2015), ISO14001, ISO 50001/ EN 16001, OHSAS 18001 and most other recognised industry specific management standards.

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) provides a sound understanding of what should naturally occur in design. Its principles are essential knowledge for design and system developers. We can apply QFD to any project that, for one, is a development activity and, two, has a definable customer. This includes products, parts, materials, services, events, software and websites. The book describes the 4-phase QFD approach. The approach conforms to the ISO 16355-1:2015 guidance standard. The House of Quality is explained, as a planning tool for transferring the priorities in customer and stakeholder requirements into the final product. The book further introduces some development tools and techniques often associated with QFD. The Appendix provides a walk-through example of the evolved 4-phase QFD approach, demonstrating the workings of the House of Quality and tools. The Appendix further illustrates a 4-phase QFD example using a simplified substitute for the House of Quality.

The book is for anyone developing quality and innovation. It presents a Quality Function Deployment (QFD) approach for the successful product and process design in manufacturing, service and any other kind of private or public organisation. The book is organised into three parts, where the first gets concisely into QFD. The latter parts add depth and width to the approach, with an indispensable collection of associated design tools and strategy concepts. The appendix walks through three start-to-finish case studies. QFD provides a sound understanding of what should naturally occur in a development project. The team-based approach prioritises customer-centric quality and innovation requirements, within market and organisation reality. The defined requirements are systematically transformed into a corresponding quality-by-design product, where the degree of innovation is adjustable. The approach is adaptable, scalable and can be shorthanded to circumstances.

This study examines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations of a few selected texts, both prose and poetry. The secondary source material includes a razo and two vidas from the troubadour biographies, as well as three poems selected from the works of Bernart de Ventadorn, the Countess of Dia, and Giraut de Bornelh. The linguistic commentary is extensive enough to assure coverage of many important issues in Provencal historical grammar.

This morphological study is designed to show the transformation from Latin verbs into the Old and Modern Italian verbal system. The work is inspired by the methods of traditional, historical philology, and its intent is largely pedagogical.