Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives.
Phonetics and Phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change.
The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.
Synopsis
La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de pr senter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront tre utilis s s par ment tout en offrant dans leur totalit une bonne approche globale de l' ventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de r f rences de la discipline, le Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane (Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik, 1988-2005) et l' Histoire des langues romanes (Romanische Sprachgeschichte, 2003-2008), n'avaient pu, pour des raisons bien compr hensibles, accorder qu'une place relativement restreinte.
La serie Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) se propone ofrecer una visi n completa y actualizada de la ling stica rom nica. Esta serie se compone de alrededor de 60 vol menes aut nomos. Cada volumen puede usarse de manera independiente, pero tomados todos en su conjunto ofrecen una visi n del espectro actual de la ling stica rom nica. Una atenci n especial se presta en esta ocasi n a las linguae minores, a las que inevitablemente se dedic menos espacio en las dos anteriores grandes obras de la disciplina, el Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988-2005) y la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003-2008).
La collana Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) si propone di offrire un aggiornamento sistematico sui pi recenti sviluppi degli studi di linguistica romanza. I ca. 60 volumi di cui si compone sono a s stanti e consultabili singolarmente, e tuttavia, se usati complessivamente, permettono una visione d'insieme dell'attuale spettro di ricerca nella linguistica romanza. Uno degli accenti pi rilevanti l'attenzione per le cosiddette linguae minores, alle quali, per forza di cose, stato concesso poco spazio nelle due grandi opere della disciplina, il Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988-2005) e la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003-2008).