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25 - The Romance Languages from c. 1700

from Part III - The Modern World: Continuing Traditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2019

By
Pascale Renders
Edited by
John Considine
John Considine
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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Summary

This chapter presents the history of the lexicography of the Romance languages, from the eighteenth century to the present day. In practice, emphasis is placed on French, Italian, and Spanish, together with Portuguese and Romanian. Behind these languages of the first rank, there are other languages, which will as far as possible be mentioned in this discussion.

Historians of the Romance languages distinguish the Gallo-Romance linguistic domain (comprising French, Francoprovençal, Occitan, and Gascon), the Italo-Romance domain (Italian, Friulian, Ladin, and Romansh), and the Ibero-Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Asturian, Aragonese, and Catalan), to which I add the Romanian domain (divided grosso modo into two main varieties, Daco-Romanian and Aromanian) and Sardic. If one likewise takes account of the geolinguistic varieties present within these various linguistic domains, the number of Romance language varieties capable of being made the objects of lexicographical description is considerable.

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The Cambridge World History of Lexicography , pp. 530 - 552
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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