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The Language of the Economy and Business in the Romance Languages
2018Abstract The expression language of the economy and business refers to an extremely heterogeneous linguistic reality. For some, it denotes all text and talk produced by economic agents in the pursuit of economic activity, for others the language used to write or talk about the economy or business, that is, the language of the economic
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The Syntax of Causatives in the Romance Languages
2023Abstract This article discusses the syntax of lexical and periphrastic causative verbs in the Romance languages. Several aspects of these verbs are examined: the building blocks of lexical causative verbs, the role of reflexive marking on the anticausative form, the interaction between causativity and agentivity, the morphosyntactic ...
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Nominalizations in the Romance Languages
2022Abstract The term nominalization refers to a specific type of category-changing morphological operation that produces nouns from other lexical categories, most productively verbs and adjectives. By extension, it is also used to refer to the resulting derived nouns.
Fábregas, Antonio, Marín, Rafael
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Negation and Polarity in the Romance Languages
2022Abstract Negation in Romance offers a wide array of cross-linguistic variation. For what concerns sentential negation, three main strategies are employed depending on the position of the negative marker with respect to the finite verb: some varieties (e.g., Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese) adopt a preverbal particle, others (e.g ...
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Formation of Numerals in the Romance Languages
2021Abstract The Romance languages have a rich numeral system that includes cardinals—providing the bases on which the other types of numeral series are built—ordinals, fractions, collectives, approximatives, distributives, and multiplicatives.
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Ellipsis in the Romance languages
2023Linguistic expressions are complex objects that consist of sound and meaning. However, it is well known that certain linguistic expressions that convey meaning may lack sound, given the appropriate context. Consider the string John a book: Without a previous context, the sequence cannot be interpreted as propositional; however, when such string ...
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The Sociology of the Romance Languages
2013Today the Romance languages are spoken over much of Europe, central and southern Latin America and Quebec, as well as in the former French, Portuguese and Spanish colonies of many parts of Africa and, Asia. Latin found itself alongside numerous languages of many diverse linguistic affiliations, necessarily giving rise to extensive bilingualism.
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A Romance Language Instructor Looks at the Slavic Languages
The Modern Language Journal, 1949IT MAY be sheer presumption for me, a Romance language instructor, to address you on the subject of the Slavic languages. Yet, be it said, in self-defense, I have never been far removed from people and things Slavonic. My ancestors dwelled some two centuries in Poland and my parents immigrated here from Galicja.
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