Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages

La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l’ambition de présenter un panorama d’ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront être utilisés séparément tout en offrant dans leur totalité une bonne approche globale de l’éventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L’accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de références de la discipline, le «Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane» (Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik, 1988–2005) et l’«Histoire des langues romanes» (Romanische Sprachgeschichte, 2003–2008), n’avaient pu, pour des raisons bien compréhensibles, accorder qu’une place relativement restreinte.

La serie Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) se propone ofrecer una visión completa y actualizada de la lingüística románica. Esta serie se compone de alrededor de 60 volúmenes autónomos. Cada volumen puede usarse de manera independiente, pero tomados todos en su conjunto ofrecen una visión del espectro actual de la lingüística románica. Una atención especial se presta en esta ocasión a las linguae minores, a las que inevitablemente se dedicó menos espacio en las dos anteriores grandes obras de la disciplina, el Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988–2005) y la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003–2008).

La collana Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) si propone di offrire un aggiornamento sistematico sui più recenti sviluppi degli studi di linguistica romanza. I ca. 60 volumi di cui si compone sono a sé stanti e consultabili singolarmente, e tuttavia, se usati complessivamente, permettono una visione d’insieme dell’attuale spettro di ricerca nella linguistica romanza. Uno degli accenti più rilevanti è l’attenzione per le cosiddette linguae minores, alle quali, per forza di cose, è stato concesso poco spazio nelle due grandi opere della disciplina, il Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988–2005) e la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003–2008).

A full list of volumes published or to appear shortly can be found under the tab "Bände". Further volumes in planning:

• Manuel de linguistique roumaine, edited by Wolfgang Dahmen and Eugen Munteanu, vol. 9
• Manual of Galician Linguistics, edited by Xulio Sousa and Ernesto González Seoane, vol. 19
• Manuel des langues créoles à base française, edited by Philipp Krämer, Katrin Mutz, and Peter Stein
• Manual of Romance Morphology and Word Formation, edited by Philipp Burdy, Sarah Dessì Schmid, and Daniela Marzo
• Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages, edited by Matthias Heinz, Lorenzo Filipponio, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
• Manuel de linguistique corse, edited by Stella Retali-Medori
• Manuel d’étymologie lexicale romane, edited by Éva Buchi
• Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance, edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
• Manuel de linguistique occitane, edited by Louise Esher and Jean Sibille
• Manual de lingüística asturiana, edited by Ana Maria Cano González
• Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics, edited by Victoria Guillén-Nieto and Dieter Stein
• Manual of Romance Word Classes, edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi

La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l’ambition de présenter un panorama d’ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront être utilisés séparément tout en offrant dans leur totalité une bonne approche globale de l’éventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L’accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores.

Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures.

The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties.

This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included.

The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.