The Cambridge history of the Romance languages. Volume II, Contexts / edited by Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith and Adam Ledgeway.

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 exter...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge Core)
Other Authors: Maiden, Martin, 1957- (Editor), Smith, John Charles, 1950- (Editor), Ledgeway, Adam (Editor)
Other title:Contexts.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Table of 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.