Romance languages and linguistic theory -- a selection of papers presented at Going Romance Utrecht.

What is it about?

It's about the contribution by data from Romance languages for advancements in linguistic theorizing. Typically stuff like: A. This set of data from this particular language of the Romance family shows that property x cannot be a universal property of language and favors an analysis in terms of variation and/or choice. B. This theoretical proposal is tested for a large set of data of the Romance family; most data confirm the theory, a tiny set of data did not, it it proposed that these be handled by a reformulation of the theoretical proposal. These themes are recurrent in the conference series Going Romance.

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Why is it important?

If lingusitic theory strives for an exhaustive characterization of all properties of all languages, the large family of Romance languages is one of the best studied language families (both from the historical perspective as from the variationist perspective) and therefore important to integrate in the theory or (even) be the source of particular theories.