Bücher der Reihe Manuals of Romance Linguistics

The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores, which the two older reference works of the discipline, Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988¿2005) and Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003¿2008) did not discuss in detail, as well as on current research trends. A full list of volumes published or to appear shortly can be found under the tab "Volumes". Further volumes in planning: Manuel de linguistique roumaine, edited by Wolfgang Dahmen and Eugen Munteanu, vol. 9 Manual of Galician Linguistics, edited by Xulio Sousa and Ernesto González Seoane, vol. 19 Manuel des langues créoles à base française, edited by Philipp Krämer, Katrin Mutz, and Peter Stein Manual of Romance Morphology and Word Formation, edited by Philipp Burdy, Sarah Dessì Schmid, and Daniela Marzo Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages, edited by Matthias Heinz, Lorenzo Filipponio, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin Manuel de linguistique corse, edited by Stella Retali-Medori Manuel d¿étymologie lexicale romane, edited by Éva Buchi Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance, edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti Manuel de linguistique occitane, edited by Louise Esher and Jean Sibille Manual de lingüística asturiana, edited by Ana Maria Cano González Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics, edited by Victoria Guillén-Nieto and Dieter Stein Manual of Romance Word Classes, edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi

Textual editing, especially for the Middle Ages, is the starting point for a good deal of what is done in historical linguistics. Editorial methods have an importance going far beyond theoretical considerations, and are of interest to scholars over and above those who edit texts. The aim of this volume is to present both the range of methods used, together with a number of case studies, accompanied by studies which discuss related aspects of textual editing such as glossaries or reviews of editions. The aim is to summarize modern editorial practices whilst not losing sight of their origins. Thus, the book will outline the tradition of the critical edition (the so-called Lachmannian edition), which survives particularly in Italy; the more Bédiérist method which dominates in France; and electronic editions (which can expand the concept of editing to include links to digitized manuscripts). Attention is also given to editorial instructions and to the use of variants in stemmatology, with an excursus to the seventeenth century, where modernisation continues to be practised. Finally, the volume will also discuss two difficult cases ¿ the editing of Old French and Occitan texts in Hebrew characters.

The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores, which the two older reference works of the discipline, Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988¿2005) and Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003¿2008) did not discuss in detail, as well as on current research trends. A full list of volumes published or to appear shortly can be found under the tab "Volumes". Further volumes in planning: Manuel de linguistique roumaine, edited by Wolfgang Dahmen and Eugen Munteanu, vol. 9 Manual of Galician Linguistics, edited by Xulio Sousa and Ernesto González Seoane, vol. 19 Manuel des langues créoles à base française, edited by Philipp Krämer, Katrin Mutz, and Peter Stein Manual of Romance Morphology and Word Formation, edited by Philipp Burdy, Sarah Dessì Schmid, and Daniela Marzo Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages, edited by Matthias Heinz, Lorenzo Filipponio, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin Manuel de linguistique corse, edited by Stella Retali-Medori Manuel d¿étymologie lexicale romane, edited by Éva Buchi Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance, edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti Manuel de linguistique occitane, edited by Louise Esher and Jean Sibille Manual de lingüística asturiana, edited by Ana Maria Cano González Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics, edited by Victoria Guillén-Nieto and Dieter Stein Manual of Romance Word Classes, edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi

This volume gives a detailed overview of the fundamentals of Romance linguistics. It deals with the history of Romance linguistics, lexicography and grammaticography, historical sources and text corpora, the history of the Romance languages and the Romana submersa as well as with Romance idioms of the Middle Ages and the state of the Romance languages today in a comparative perspective, and also takes into account Romance-based creoles.

The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences between deictic structures among the languages of the world.

This manual contains overviews on language acquisition and distinguishes between first- and second-language acquisition. It also deals with Romance languages as foreign languages in the world and with language acquisition in some countries of the Romance-speaking world.