The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) aims to present a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. A special focus will be placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l’ambition de présenter un panorama d’ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront être utilisés séparément tout en offrant dans leur totalité une bonne approche globale de l’éventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L’accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de références de la discipline, le «Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane» (Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik, 1988–2005) et l’«Histoire des langues romanes» (Romanische Sprachgeschichte, 2003–2008), n’avaient pu, pour des raisons bien compréhensibles, accorder qu’une place relativement restreinte.

La serie Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) se propone ofrecer una visión completa y actualizada de la lingüística románica. Esta serie se compone de alrededor de 60 volúmenes autónomos. Cada volumen puede usarse de manera independiente, pero tomados todos en su conjunto ofrecen una visión del espectro actual de la lingüística románica. Una atención especial se presta en esta ocasión a las linguae minores, a las que inevitablemente se dedicó menos espacio en las dos anteriores grandes obras de la disciplina, el Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988–2005) y la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003–2008).

La collana Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) si propone di offrire un aggiornamento sistematico sui più recenti sviluppi degli studi di linguistica romanza. I ca. 60 volumi di cui si compone sono a sé stanti e consultabili singolarmente, e tuttavia, se usati complessivamente, permettono una visione d’insieme dell’attuale spettro di ricerca nella linguistica romanza. Uno degli accenti più rilevanti è l’attenzione per le cosiddette linguae minores, alle quali, per forza di cose, è stato concesso poco spazio nelle due grandi opere della disciplina, il Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (1988–2005) e la Romanische Sprachgeschichte (2003–2008).

A full list of volumes published or to appear shortly can be found under the tab "Bände". Further volumes in planning:

• Manuel de linguistique roumaine, edited by Wolfgang Dahmen and Eugen Munteanu, vol. 9
• Manual of Galician Linguistics, edited by Xulio Sousa and Ernesto González Seoane, vol. 19
• Manuel des langues créoles à base française, edited by Philipp Krämer, Katrin Mutz, and Peter Stein
• Manual of Romance Morphology and Word Formation, edited by Philipp Burdy, Sarah Dessì Schmid, and Daniela Marzo
• Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages, edited by Matthias Heinz, Lorenzo Filipponio, and Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
• Manuel de linguistique corse, edited by Stella Retali-Medori
• Manuel d’étymologie lexicale romane, edited by Éva Buchi
• Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance, edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
• Manuel de linguistique occitane, edited by Louise Esher and Jean Sibille
• Manual de lingüística asturiana, edited by Ana Maria Cano González
• Manual of Romance Forensic Linguistics, edited by Victoria Guillén-Nieto and Dieter Stein
• Manual of Romance Word Classes, edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Giampaolo Salvi