Offers fully searchable bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Includes dictionaries for Arabic, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
A detailed overview of the current state of research in diachronic Romance lexicography, with up-to-date scholarship and extensive information about the history of lexicographical research in the Romance languages.
El gran avance de la lexicografía en los últimos tiempos, en particular de la lexicografía referida a las lenguas romances, hace necesaria una presentación actualizada de la misma en sus diversas vertientes. A este objetivo responde la presente obra, avalada por el prestigio de quienes han colaborado en ella. El primer volumen supone una puesta al día de los conocimientos en lexicografía románica desde la perspectiva histórica. Junto a trabajos más puntuales sobre aspectos de especial interés, podemos encontrar visiones globalizadoras de la historia de la lexicografía en las distintas lenguas. También se incluyen estudios que inciden en la elaboración de diccionarios en su dimensión diacrónica. El segundo volumen hace lo propio con los trabajos que tienen que ver con la lexicografía moderna y contrastiva, así como con aquellos cuya atención se centra en la teoría y técnica lexicográficas y en las orientaciones que últimamente se siguen en la confección de repertorios léxicos. Al integrar en un mismo espacio los estudios correspondientes a las diferentes lenguas, se intenta sobrepasar el ámbito de las lexicografías individuales y favorecer el análisis de sus interconexiones. Por ello esta obra puede suponer una aportación de conjunto innovadora sobre el tema abordado.
This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume 1 is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.
What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.
Overviews on first- and second-language acquisition, with a focus on language acquisition in selected countries of the Romance-speaking world and on Romance languages acquired as second languages.
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