A Comparative Study of Romance

This book is organized into two distinct parts. The first includes an introduction to the study of philology, its methods and goals, as well as sections on the history of the discipline, etymology, semantics, and the earliest Romance texts. The second section provides an insight into the workings of sound-laws and the factors that influenced the development of the diverse Romance languages from the fairly unified mother tongue of Vulgar Latin. Jensen, a languages specialist who has taught at UCLA and the Universities of Calgary and Colorado, offers a concise rule for each sound change he includes, and illustrates these with examples arranged in tables, as well as a brief commentary explaining the sound development in more detail, if necessary.Frede Jensen is the author of 'A Comparative Study of Romance' with ISBN 9780820442532 and ISBN 0820442534.