Romanische Forschungen

In recent years, the focus of dialectological research has shifted towards morphology and syntax. The Internet has revolutionized the availability of tools such as audio data, database searches, electronic maps, etc. Published in 2012, the second...

One of the central questions of pragmalinguistics is the distinction between linguistic structures and cultural norms that guide the usage of these structures in verbal interaction. is distinction is especially important for contrastive pragmatics,...

According to Talmy's semantic typology, Romance languages are classified as verb-framed. is group of languages lexicalizes Path information in the main verb, whereas Manner information, if expressed at all, is usually codified in linguistic elements...

This contribution presents results of a corpus study on the referential and syntactic variables that determine the occurrence of indirect object clitic doubling in modern (written) Spanish. From a functional-typological perspective, indirect object...