Romanische Forschungen

The paper analyses a corpus of metalinguistic texts (grammars, remarks) from the first grammar of French (Palsgrave 1972 [1530]) until today in order to retrace the metalinguistic perceptions and the prescriptive interventions in the domain of the...

This paper discusses the controversy surrounding the new methodological approach advanced by the Dictionnaire Etymologique Roman, which has posed a radical, tantalizing challenge to Romance etymological research. The project recently edited by Buchi...

Giovita Scalvini and Giovanni Berchet are two lesser known poets of the early 19th century. Both were exiled after the failed insurrections of 1821, in which they were involved politically. While Scalvini reinterprets the motive of the Alps as a...

This essay analyses the relationship between the processes of discourse reformulation and the conclusion and recapitulation functions through the specific analysis of the discourse markers en fin and total in oral discourse. The author states that...

Castilian Golden Age poetics flourishes in the first half of the 17th century. In contrast, the 16th century, the heyday of Renaissance poetics in Italy and France, is largely devoid of Castilian sources significant for the history of poetic theory....

The article examines – based on Tirso de Molinas archetype Don Juan in El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (around 1620) – how Don Juan is transformed and gets closer to the aesthetical composition of the figure of the dandy at the end...

This article provides an overview of the constructions functioning as a measure phrase complement to Romance one-dimensional spatial adjectives and their nominalisations (for instance long de trois mètres and une longueur de trois mètres in...