Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages compares six Romance languages—Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian—and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse for each language. The up-to-date analyses in this volume make it essential for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars of each language.

《罗马尼亚语通论》，《罗马尼亚语通论》是罗马尼亚语研究方面的权威学者冯至臣教授的集大成之作，从六大方面全面介绍了罗马尼亚语，包括语音、正音与正字、词汇、构词、词法、句法等，这种多视角观察有助于全面了解和认识一种语言，很有价值的参考，主要体现在以下两个方面：第一，全面描写了罗马尼亚语的面貌，为科学了解与深入研究提供了便利。罗马尼亚语在中国属于小语种，了解与学习的受众并不多。国内可作参考的资料也并不多见。因此，介绍好这门语言，不论是对普通读者，还是对专业研究者来说，都是很有意义的。本书的描写工作是非常细致的，例如它详细描述了元音

This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume 1 is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.