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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Edited by Mark Amengual and Amanda Dalola

The study of Romance linguistics has long been a vibrant and dynamic field, enriched by diverse theoretical perspectives and a range of methodological innovations. This volume gathers contributions from leading scholars and emerging voices in the field to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 45] 2025. vi, 331 pp.

Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari

Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis

Special issue of Revue Romane 60:1 (2025) v, 151 pp.

Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia

Jonas Grünke

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.

From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates

Edited by Mar Garachana Camarero, Sandra Montserrat Buendia and Claus Dieter Pusch

This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 31] 2022. vi, 238 pp.

Paremias: Estudio lingüístico contrastivo francés-español

Lucía Navarro-Brotons

La importancia del estudio de la fraseología en general, y de la paremiología en particular, viene avalada tanto por el interés que han suscitado las unidades fraseológicas desde la Antigüedad como porque los investigadores del tema ponen de manifiesto que se trata de la piedra angular del lexicón… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 33] 2022. xxii, 176 pp.

Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018

Edited by Gabriela Alboiu and Ruth King

This volume brings together selected papers from the 48th annual Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, held at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. It presents original research on a wide variety of Romance languages both past (Latin, Old Catalan, Old Iberian Romance, Old… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] 2022. vii, 275 pp.

La burla en la literatura del Siglo de Oro

Edited by Ignacio Arellano

Special issue of Revue Romane 56:1 (2021) v, 140 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest

Edited by Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu

This volume contains a selection of 18 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 31st edition of Going Romance. Phenomena found in Romance languages (European Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), in Romance dialects (Cosentino, Salentino, southern Calabrese, Neapolitan, and Trevigiano), and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 355] 2021. vi, 377 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht

Edited by Frank Drijkoningen, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 357] 2021. vi, 320 pp.

Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo and Idoia Elola

Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics is a 15-chapter compilation written by both established and emerging scholars representing a wide array of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. Each chapter presents original and significant… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 27] 2020. vi, 344 pp.

Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives

Edited by Luis A. Ortiz López, Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera

This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia,… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 22] 2020. vii, 336 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware

Edited by Irene Vogel

The chapters in this book represent the theme of “bridges” – bridging research approaches and directions across languages, methodologies and disciplines. Alongside descriptive and theoretical studies, the contributions present experimental studies addressing issues in syntax, phonetics-phonology… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] 2020. vi, 278 pp.

Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes

Edited by Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic

Special issue of Revue Romane 54:1 (2019) v, 203 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 15: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 30, Frankfurt

Edited by Ingo Feldhausen, Martin Elsig, Imme Kuchenbrandt and Mareike Neuhaus

In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 15] 2019. vii, 358 pp.

Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo

Edited by Luis López

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 19] 2018. vii, 270 pp.

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015

Edited by Jonathan E. MacDonald

Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics offers a panorama of current research into multiple varieties of Spanish from several different regions (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras), Catalan, Brazilian Portuguese, as well as varieties in… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 15] 2018. ix, 376 pp.

Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond

Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 201] 2018. viii, 391 pp.

Models of Discourse Units in Romance Languages

Edited by Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Vahram Atayan and Sybille Große

Special issue of Revue Romane 53:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 13: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 29, Nijmegen

Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau

In the three decades of its existence, the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 13] 2018. vi, 340 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY

Edited by Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez

This book contains a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place in April 2016 at Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York. The most current research and debates on bilingualism, historical linguistics, morphology,… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 14] 2018. vii, 345 pp.

Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia

Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi

Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.

Camus et Faulkner: Écriture et modernité

Edited by Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans Peter Lund

Special issue of Revue Romane 52:1 (2017) v, 112 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario

Edited by Silvia Perpiñán, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar and Adriana Soto-Corominas

This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics. The volume includes 12 peer-reviewed articles, first presented at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] 2017. vi, 269 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil

Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino

The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A volume of selected papers, such as this one, will ultimately be successful… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 12] 2017. xi, 277 pp.

Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence

Edited by Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson

Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 12] 2016. xi, 358 pp.

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields

Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon

Edited by Ernestina Carrilho, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira

This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] 2016. x, 330 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013

Edited by Christina Tortora, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill

This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held in New York in 2013. The articles deal with various synchronic and diachronic aspects of Romance languages and dialects world-wide. They will be of interest… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 9] 2016. xix, 418 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.

Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact

Edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho

Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces captures the diversity of encounters that these languages have known and explores their relevance for current linguistic theories. The book focuses on dimensions along which Portuguese and Spanish can be fruitfully compared and highlights the theoretical value of… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 1] 2014. vi, 468 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012

Edited by Karen Lahousse and Stefania Marzo

This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6] 2014. xiii, 247 pp.

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar

Edited by Hans C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García

The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 15] 2014. x, 316 pp.

Variation within and across Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011

Edited by Marie-Hélène Côté and Eric Mathieu

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 333] 2014. viii, 426 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011

Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto

In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 pp.

Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages

Edited by Sascha Gaglia and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin

Morphology, and in particular word formation, has always played an important role in Romance linguistics since it was introduced in Diez’s comparative Romance grammar. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in inflectional morphology, and current research shows a strong interest in… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 186] 2012. vii, 400 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010

Edited by Irene Franco, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab

The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-fourth Going Romance conference was… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 4] 2012. viii, 223 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009

Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2010: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010

Edited by Julia Herschensohn

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 318] 2011. xvii, 332 pp.

Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation

Edited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique

This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008

Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse

This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 22nd edition of Going Romance, held at the University of Groningen in December 2008. Though it contains a variety of topics, 'tense, mood and aspect' is represented most extensively. This volume contains a rich… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] 2010. x, 251 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008

Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay

The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009

Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho

This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315] 2010. xiv, 426 pp.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007

Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman

The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more

[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 pp.

Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007

Edited by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O'Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. The papers cover a range of topics in morphology, syntax, phonology and language acquisition. A… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 304] 2009. vii, 361 pp.