{"covers": [332207], "first_publish_date": "1966", "key": "/works/OL2623359W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL382175A"}}], "subjects": ["Romance languages", "Lenguas romances", "Lenguas rom\u00e1nicas"], "title": "The romance languages", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"How do the Romance languages reflect the temperament of the peoples who speak them? On what basis can it be asserted that they descend from a common mother tongue? What historical and geographical factors molded their different structures and phonetic qualities? These are a few of the vital questions explored in this comprehensive linguistic study of the five major Romance languages - French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Rumanian. Using a unique comparative approach, Rebecca Posner analyzes the historical development, internal structure, and present-day variants and dialects of each language, bringing into relief both he similarities and the differences in the famous constellation of Latin tongues.\"--Back cover."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:06:48.004521"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-20T04:20:36.780731"}}