Romanische Forschungen

This paper aims at providing a discussion on ’Ausbau‘ phenomena and on the influence of Latin syntactic models in the development of ancient Italian in the 14th century. This subject is addressed through the analysis of the characteristics of...

The aim of this paper is to provide the first comparative, corpus-based description of the linguistic history of the Italian numeral-word zero. We show that the formal and semantic development of zero is far more complex than has been assumed and...

The following article examines the forms and functions of literariness in journalism. Following Italo Calvino, literariness is understood as a specific aesthetic of detour, which is put into the service of an ethics of journalistic communication....

This contribution in terminology aims at taking into consideration the semantic and func- tional constituents of terms in a cognitive and discursive perspective To this end, Geeraerts' model of cognitive lexicology is used to study and exemplify the...

This article compares the Sephardic poetry written by two poets whose mother tongue is not Judeo-Spanish but Spanish: Juan Gelman (Buenos Aires, 1930) and Juan Andrés García Román (Granada, 1979). The historical and geographical contexts in which...

El sabor de la tierruca (1882) is Pereda's first regional novel. In his previous ideological works, the author had written that the threat to the ancestral system was political. It originated on the liberal policies coming from the nation's capital....