Elements of Comparative Grammar in Five Romance Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian - An Outline for Intercomprehension: Second Edition: Revised and Expanded

"Elements of Comparative Grammar in Five Romance Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian - an outline for intecomprehension" is a powerful handbook where five Romance languages are compared side by side aiming intercomprehension among native speakers, students and anyone interested in Romance languages around the globe: a business person in Macau, China, who commands Portuguese as a second language, is seeking a closer relationship to an Argentinian company. An Italian tourist in Lisbon might speak certain words in Italian and be understood by a portuguese, with some patience from both sides. A Mexican couple living in Switzerland might enjoy daily swiss newspapers in French and Italian. A Brazilian living in the USA might reach out to a Romanian car dealer in Romanian, even something simple and be given special treatment. A French student might approach an Italian academic text and feel comfortable enough to read it thouroughly, after checking some words in a dictionary. Just imagine the powerful possibilities of intercomprehension ... . Main features:Eight Elements of Speech compared (Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Pronouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives) in five languagesProposed taxonomy for classification of all Elements of SpeechMore than 80 comparative tablesMore than 4,500 words and expressions in six languages, including EnglishAppendices with numerals, time & calendar terms, useful phrases and vocabulary, pronunciation and syntactic structures in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian and EnglishOver 70 curated references on Romance Philology and Romance Languages