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Indef­i­nites between Latin and romance
This book inves­ti­gates the syn­tac­tic and seman­tic devel­op­ment of a selec­tion of indef­i­nite pro­nouns and deter­min­ers (such as aliquis ’some‘, nul­lus ’no‘, and nemo ’no one‘) between Latin and the Romance lan­guages. Although these ele­ments have under­gone sig­nif­i­cant diachron­ic change since the Clas­si­cal Latin peri­od, the mod­ern Romance lan­guages show a remark­able degree of sim­i­lar­i­ty in the way their sys­tems of indef­i­nites have evolved and are struc­tured today. In this vol­ume, Chiara Gianol­lo draws on data from Clas­si­cal and Late Latin texts, and from elec­tron­ic cor­po­ra of the ear­ly stages of var­i­ous Romance lan­guages, to pro­pose a new account of these sim­i­lar­i­ties. The focus is pri­mar­i­ly on Late Latin: at this stage, the gram­mar of indef­i­nites already shows a num­ber of changes, which are homo­ge­neous­ly trans­mit­ted to the daugh­ter lan­guages, lead­ing to par­al­lelism in the var­i­ous emerg­ing Romance sys­tems. The vol­ume demon­strates the val­ue of using meth­ods and mod­els from syn­chron­ic the­o­ret­i­cal lin­guis­tics for inves­ti­gat­ing diachron­ic phe­nom­e­na, as well as the impor­tance of diachron­ic research in under­stand­ing the nature of crosslin­guis­tic vari­a­tion and lan­guage change.
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Refig­ur­ing les années noires: lit­er­ary rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the Nazi Occu­pa­tion
Through a close read­ing of sev­en lit­er­ary mem­oirs of the Nazi Occu­pa­tion of France, Refig­ur­ing Les Années Noires: Lit­er­ary Rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the Nazi Occu­pa­tion shows how the mem­o­ry of the peri­od has been shaped by polit­i­cal and social fac­tors. An inter­dis­ci­pli­nary study incor­po­rat­ing trau­ma the­o­ry, his­to­ry, and folk­lore stud­ies, this book exam­ines rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the Occu­pa­tion by a diverse group of writ­ers rang­ing from a female Resis­tance fight­er to one of the first French Roma nov­el­ists. The method­olog­i­cal diver­si­ty of the vol­ume brings to the fore each author’s unique per­spec­tive and demon­strates that their works are at once his­tor­i­cal­ly and artis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant. Above all, this book gives voice to groups whose expe­ri­ences in occu­pied France have large­ly been for­got­ten.
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