Romanische Forschungen

This work aims to advance in the knowledge of Spanish historical phraseology. Its main objective is to approach the study of phraseological formulation in the Libro de buen amor. The methodology employed is based on a variationist perspective, in...

Building on theoretical approaches from the field of border studies, the paper studies the aesthetics and poetics of borders in literary representations of the Alpine region. The focus is on the restructuring of national borders between Austria and...

This article focuses on the illnesses of middle-aged women in late capitalism that are enhanced by – to use the extended metaphor – the illness of the economic system itself. To this end, it analyzes two contemporary novels that autofictionalize...

This article focuses on the so-called concealed exclamations in Spanish ( DP s semantically equivalent to indirect exclamative clauses). Its basic aim is to show how the type of noun affects four aspects of these structures: the presence/absence of...

Diderot's writings bear witness to his admiration for people and their achievements, whether technical or artistic. After recalling the history of the notion of admiration, we saw that, in the article *Admiration, Diderot defines admiration as...

Studies and poetic anthologies devoted to the Baroque are full of texts evoking with a lux- ury of detail the horrors of the tortured or mutilated body . If, at first sight, such a choice serves to register the Baroque by delimiting its...

The participle form of the Spanish verb chapurrear ’to speak a language badly‘ is registered in some regions of Spain – Asturias, León, Extremadura, Aragon – as a glossonym through which speakers of minority languages name their mother...