1. Latin and the making of the Romance languages Alberto Varvaro; 2. The transition from Latin to the Romance languages Michel Banniard; 3. Periodization Roger Wright; 4. Evidence and sources Roger Wright; 5. Koinés and scriptae Johannes Kabatek; 6. Contact and borrowing Marius Sala; 7. The Romance languages in the Renaissance and after Helena L. Sanson; 8. Geography and distribution of the Romance languages in Europe Lorenzo Renzi and Alvise Andreose; 9. The sociology of the Romance languages Alberto Varvaro; 10. Romance outside the Romània Mari C. Jones and Christopher J. Pountain; 11. Creoles Iris Bachmann.
What is the origin of the Romance languages? How did they become different from Latin, and from each other?
Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages and Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. John Charles Smith is Faculty Lecturer in French Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Adam Ledgeway is Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
'A brilliant account of the social and historical context of the
Romance languages from the earliest stages of Latin through to
modern creoles … an indispensable point of reference for both the
specialist and those new to the field of Romance linguistics.'
Nigel Vincent, Professor Emeritus of General and Romance
Linguistics, University of Manchester
'This second volume of the Cambridge History perfectly complements
the first, providing the historical and geographical context within
which the structures of the Romance languages emerged and
developed. Together they provide an invaluable resource,
summarizing the results of centuries of scholarship on the family
for the specialist and making it accessible to a wide audience of
general linguists as well.' Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University
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