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Article Excerpt
Del latin al rumano. By MARIUS SALA. Par-s: Uni>n Latina; Bucarest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2002. Pp. 193.
The place of Romanian among the Romance languages, a topic of research that gave title to Sextil Puscariu's inaugural address to the Romanian Academy in 1920, has represented a constant subject of inquiry for several generations of Romanists, who all shared the (historically motivated) perception that Romanian has always been a special case among its Romance sisters. Indeed, as Niculescu (1981) has pointed out, '[m]ore than any other part of the Romance world, the Romanian area has often faced investigators with the necessity of demonstrating the preservation of Latinity. More than once has its Latin continuity been called into question, more than once has its Latin typology been examined from various angles' (11).
Marius Sala is the most recent Romanian Romanist to confront the issue boldly, from an innovative perspective. Del latin al rumano is the Spanish version (carefully executed by Valeria Neagu) of a book that was initially published in Romanian and then immediately translated (by...
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