num_pages: 400
description: What is a Romance language? How is it related to other Romance languages, how did they all evolve, and what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, and relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included.
language: English
title: The Romance Languages
titlecomplete: The Romance Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys)
genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 32
series: Cambridge Language Surveys
publisher: Cambridge University Press