Address in Portuguese and Spanish: Studies in diachrony and diachronic reconstruction

Abstract

The volume Address in Portuguese and Spanish: Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction provides the first systematic contrastive approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish in their European and American varieties. From a methodological point of view, the volume is innovative as it links historical linguistics with diachronic reconstruction based on synchronic variation. It includes theoretical reflections as well as fine-grained empirical studies.

Der Band Address in Portuguese and Spanish: Studies in Diachrony and Diachronic Reconstruction ist die erste systematische kontrastive Analyse der Geschichte der Anredeformen im Portugiesischen und Spanischen. Er ist methodologisch innovativ, indem er Sprachgeschichte mit diachroner Rekonstruktion auf der Grundlage synchronischer Variation verknüpft. Er enthält theoretische Untersuchungen ebenso wie detaillierte empirische Studien.