This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently

Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more trad

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

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 D

The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntac