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Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publications are regularly devoted to their definition, identification, and classification, in the field of Romance linguistics we lack a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research. This Manual offers an updated and detailed discussion of all relevant aspects related to word classes in the Romance languages. In the first part, word classes are discussed from both a theoretical and historical point of view. The second part of the volume takes as its point of departure single word classes, described transversally in all the main Romance languages, while the third observes the relevant word classes from the point of view of specific Romance(-based) varieties. The fourth part explores Romance word classes at the interface of grammar and other fields of research.

The Manual is intended as a reference work for all scholars and students interested in the description of both the standard, major Romance languages and the smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties.

Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publications are regularly devoted to their definition, identification, and classification, in the field of Romance linguistics we lack a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research. This Manual offers an updated and detailed discussion of all relevant aspects related to word classes in the Romance languages. In the first part, word classes are discussed from both a theoretical and historical point of view. The second part of the volume takes as its point of departure single word classes, described transversally in all the main Romance languages, while the third observes the relevant word classes from the point of view of specific Romance(-based) varieties. The fourth part explores Romance word classes at the interface of grammar and other fields of research.

The Manual is intended as a reference work for all scholars and students interested in the description of both the standard, major Romance languages and the smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties.

The studies assembled in this volume in honor of József Herman address the main areas on which his research has concentrated: the evolution of classical and post-classical Latin, the emergence of the Romance languages, and (from this perspective) more general problems of diachronic linguistics. Over and above the individual problems addressed here in detail, the articles (grouped thematically) outline the concerns of the disciplines involved and establish the present state of research on a number of the issues discussed. Most of the authors have chosen a historical approach, but this does not exclude typological considerations. The collection as a whole is slanted toward the sources of knowledge of vulgar and late Latin and to various questions of syntax and style.

Il volume studia i meccanismi del cambiamento diacronico della struttura di frase fra latino classico e lingue romanze antiche utilizzando il quadro teorico della Grammatica Generativa.

Dopo una descrizione dettagliata dei fenomeni dell''ordine delle parole in latino, viene formulata un''ipotesi sulla struttura di frase di questa lingua. Per le lingue romanze antiche vengono individuate due grammatiche in concorrenza, una innovativa a Verbo Secondo e una con caratteristiche più simili a quelle del latino, e viene formulata un''ipotesi sul meccanismo diacronico che ha portato dalla struttura di frase latina a quella innovativa romanza, ipotesi che vede nelle strutture latine a verbo iniziale il punto di partenza dell''evoluzione. Vengono poi ricostruiti i cambiamenti intervenuti nel sistema di collocazione delle forme deboli dei pronomi nel passaggio dal sistema latino al sistema romanzo arcaico. Infine si affronta il problema del cambiamento di categoria delle forme pronominali deboli del latino che diventano i clitici delle lingue romanze antiche, cambiamento scatenato dalla progressiva perdita del sistema morfologico dei casi e favorito dalla contiguità fra posizione delle forme deboli e posizione del verbo nel latino tardo; la successiva evoluzione dei clitici romanzi permette di operare distinzioni più sottili relativamente alle varie tappe del processo di grammaticalizzazione che porta dalle parole deboli del latino agli affissi che troviamo in alcune lingue romanze.