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Romance Linguistics

The Chair focusses on the morphology and syntax of Spanish and French, Portuguese and Italian, with special emphasis on diachronic matters. Historical and present day stylistic and social semiotics and variation of Romance are as well taken into account. Specific topics treated are the semiotics of writing, Native American language structures, language typology and language contact, the sociolinguistics of American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, language learning, discourse traditions and the historiography of the language sciences.