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Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 3. Teilband
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 769.00With regards to historical linguistics, the study of Romance languages enjoys the privilege of a long documentation history, which, with Latin as its basis, dates back almost three thousand years. This long tradition makes it possible to analyze nearly every language-historical aspect, as well as to develop methods and test theories without having... more...
Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 1. Teilband
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 783.00This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action... more...
Français du Canada - Français de France VIII
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00The book contains papers presented at an international colloquium which has taken place at regular intervals (since 1985) and which is devoted to the contrasting study of the French language in Europe and Canada. In 2007 the focus was on the different varieties of French that can be observed in France and in Canada. Here specialists from Canada, France... more...
Le choc des patois en Nouvelle-France
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1984; US$ 18.71Lhistoire du fait français en Amérique du Nord, cest dabord celle de la langue maternelle de nos ancêtres et de leur descendance immédiate. Dans une Nouvelle-France qui ne parlait par encore français, lenjeu de la langue maternelle est au cur du rapport de force qui gouverne les parlers et les... more...
Französisch in Louisiana
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.02Im vorliegenden Buch werden die vom nordamerikanischen Bundesstaat Louisiana betriebene Sprachpolitik und von intellektuellen Akteuren, wie z.B. Schriftstellern, ausgehende Sprachpflege bezüglich der im Land verbreiteten Varietäten des Französischen dargestellt. Hierbei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf dem Zeitraum von der Gründung der staatlichen Organisation... more...
Songs of the Women Troubadours
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 37.95This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts.... more...
Courts of Love, Castles of Hate
The History Press 2011; US$ 29.15The figure of the Troubadour combines the ideals of knighthood with the inspiration of the poet and musician and created a cultural explosion which influenced the whole course of Western art and civilisation. Burl traces the story from the birth of the first Troubadour in 1071 to the execution of the last Cathar Good Man in 1231 and the close of the... more...
Introduction. Cahier des normes rédactionelles. Morphologie. Abréviations et sigles
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 377.00The initially published volume (Vol. II/1) of the Dictionary of Romance Anthroponymy appeared in 2004. In the form of articles modelled on those of the major etymological dictionaries, it lists personal names in the Romance languages from the Middle Ages to the present, in line with a classification system devised in the framework of the PatRom project.... more...
Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords
BRILL 2008; US$ 278.00A survey of Arabic and allied loanwords in Western languages is a first-rate tool to asses the impact of Islamic factors in the emergence and background of Western civilization. The Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula are in an ideal position for this kind of research, considering the length and strength of Muslim states on its soil. more...









