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1. Sardinian Syntax

   By Michael Jones

   Series: Romance Linguistics

   Sardinian Syntax presents the first comprehensive synchronic description of Sardinian syntax available in English. Michael Jones combines a detailed coverage of the language with a theoretical approach that draws on contemporary linguistic theory. The book provides an extensive reference grammar...

   Published October 20th 1993 by Routledge
2. The Rhaeto-Romance Languages

   By Paola Beninca, John Haiman

   Series: Romance Linguistics

   The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a...

   Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge
3. Tener + Past Participle

   A Case Study in Linguistic Description

   By Catherine E. Harre

   Series: Romance Linguistics

   The so-called periphrastic constructions found in Spanish, and the problems which they pose for linguistic description and classification, provide a useful vehicle for exploring the possibilities for combining synchrony and diachrony. This book centres on an examination of one such construction:...

   Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
4. Tense and Narrativity

   From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction

   By Suzanne Fleischman

   Series: Romance Linguistics

   An investigation into the linguistic foundation of narrative discourse, this book aims to arrive at an understanding of linguistic strategies used by story-tellers to structure experience, real or invented....

   Published July 18th 1990 by Routledge