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Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

¿Qué es una lengua romance? ¿Cómo se relacionan unas con otras? ¿Cómo se desarrollan y qué nos aportan al lenguaje en general? En este amplio y exhaustivo estudio, Rebecca Posner examina un amplio grupo de estas lenguas desde distintas perspectivas, y su

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

En este ensayo filosofico sobre la figura del Fausto legendario, mitico y literario, Reuter intenta responder a las siguientes preguntas: de donde procede el atractivo irresistible de la historia del doctor Fausto?, en que consiste su extrana e inquietante profundidad? y por que sigue fascinando a las generaciones?