| Romance calls for passion and usually an outpouring of emotion and sentiment. |
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| Nearly all Brazilians speak Portuguese, a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European language family. |
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| The Romanian language is a modern Romance language, just like Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
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| There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages. |
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| Castilian is a Romance language, as are most of the other regional languages, including Catalan and Galician. |
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| I was surprised to learn that mere probably comes from Latin merus, though perhaps with some reinforcement from Germanic and Romance sources. |
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| These Romance languages supplanted earlier tribal ones which, except for Basque, have not survived. |
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| The Romance, from 1929, was originally going to be part of a string serenade. |
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| Andorra's official language is Catalan, a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, a region in Spain. |
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| The use of the German language goes back to the early Middle Ages, when the Alamans invaded lands where Romance languages were developing. |
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| In fact, it has many Latin words that are not found in other Romance languages, and is more grammatically complex. |
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| In roughly the southern third of the country, the common people spoke dialects of Occitan, a Romance language distinct from French. |
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| French is also the lingua franca used to communicate with immigrants, most of whom already know another Romance language. |
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| Romance is a wonderful thing and when you are in the early stages of a relationship it puts you on the crest of a wave. |
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| She spritzed herself with some Romance by Ralph Lauren, grabbed her purse and coat off her bed, and met John back in the living room. |
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| Orza is the Italian reflex of a common Romance word generally thought to be of Latin origin. |
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| Small Moments and The Big Romance are two albums of chilled folktronica, all acoustic guitars and somnambulant beats. |
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| Other Romance minority languages, though not official, have special recognition, such as the Astur-Leonese group and Aragonese in Aragon. |
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| Romance surrounds the idea that incredible wealth lies hidden in rugged peaks, narrow box canyons, or shifting sands of desert dunes. |
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| Portuguese is a Romance language that is most closely related to the Spanish dialect Galician. |
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| Their language, Vlach, is a member of the Romance family of languages and written in Latin characters. |
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| And that is where The Science of Romance ultimately fails the test as an evolutionary explanation. |
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| Romance and Spanish have been filled with Arabic loanwords, be they chemical, culinary, agricultural, technological, social or scientific. |
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| Many Americans were first exposed to Breillat's films through Romance, a critically touted but unpopular film. |
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| From a background where education was keenly encouraged, Morrison developed an interest in languages, particularly those of the Romance and Goidelic Celtic groups. |
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| The Romance languages have lost the Classical Latin neuter gender, while Dutch, Danish and Swedish have merged masculine and feminine to form the common gender. |
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| From top gun to True Romance to Unstoppable, watch some of the most memorable scenes from his films. |
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| Romance can be found in a quiet spot in Rome, and in searching for ghosts in the Hampstead streets. |
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| She has taught literature, cinema, and Romance languages at Harvard University. |
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| We have also acquired a controlling interest in the lexicons of both Armenian and Uzbeck, as well as a minority shareholding in several obscure Romance dialects. |
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| Christine launched into a lively denunciation of the anti-woman Romance of the Rose, pointing out tartly the many faults in its logic and its humanity. |
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| In the case of Yiddish, the grammar is mainly Germanic, but the vocabulary and certain other features of the language draw on Hebraic, Romance, and Slavic sources as well. |
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| Then there is the shy, self-effacing Chris, who electrifyingly takes over the stage, and, to my mind, sparks the whole proceedings with the showstopper, Old Fashioned Romance. |
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| Although it was influenced linguistically by invaders and neighbours, Romanian is a Romance language, with obvious implications for the character of its folk music. |
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| Linklater recalled meeting Arquette at a cocktail party shortly after the release of True Romance. |
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| Such guidance is simply invaluable to those who face the bewildering inconsistencies in English which Romance, Slav, Germanic and even Hungarian generally lack. |
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| I was to find anew the world of Romance that I had known in earliest childhood in fairy tale and daydream and in the romantic fictions of the household in which I grew up. |
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| French is essentially an attempt by the Dutch to speak a Romance language. |
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| In the areas once part of the Roman empire, Latin was effectively the vernacular and it gradually evolved into the various Romance languages of western Europe. |
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| Romance ends abruptly and violently when she kills Jeff's partner. |
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| But, he smiled as he studied his vocabulary lists, if his plan was to emigrate out of the Balkans, learning Romance languages would be the way to go. |
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| Some Romance languages, particularly French and Spanish, are also widely used. |
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| This has often turned out to be true, especially, but not solely, for speakers of the Romance languages and educated speakers of English. |
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| One key marker of whether a given Romance feature was found in Vulgar Latin is to compare it with its parallel in Classical Latin. |
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| If dialectal and derived words are included, the total is approximately 400 words, the largest stock of Celtic words in any Romance language. |
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| As is to be expected, the ancient Gaulish language was more similar to Latin than modern Celtic languages are to modern Romance languages. |
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| During the Merovingian period, Frankish had significant influence on the Romance languages spoken in Gaul. |
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| French has also passed on words of Franconian origin to other Romance languages, and to English. |
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| The official language of Moldova is Romanian, a Romance language related to Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
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| Aquitaine under Rome had been in southern Gaul, Romanised and speaking a Romance language. |
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| The spelling rules of most Romance languages are fairly simple, and consistent within any language. |
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| Most Romance and Celtic languages use derivations of this word, either inherited or borrowed from the Latin form ecclesia. |
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| The Germanic elites were Arians, and the Romance majority population was Nicene. |
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| This time period has been greatly romanticized in works such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms. |
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| The languages spoken by the people were the Romance Dalmatian and common Croatian. |
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| The subjunctive mood figures prominently in the grammar of the Romance languages, which require this mood for certain types of dependent clauses. |
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| The Romance languages developed from Vulgar Latin, the colloquial form of Latin spoken in the Roman Empire. |
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| Various palatalizations occurred during the historical development of the Romance languages. |
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| Some groups of the Romance languages underwent more palatalizations than others. |
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| The Romance languages are derived from Latin, and in particular western Vulgar Latin. |
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| The diphthongs that resulted from the Romance and the Romanian breakings were modified when they occurred after palatalized consonants. |
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| Catalan, a Romance language, also shows reduction, but in differing degrees depending on dialect. |
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| Since stress takes part in verb conjugation, this has produced verbs with vowel alternation in the Romance languages. |
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| Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Semitic, and auxiliary languages generally have a definite article, sometimes used as a postposition. |
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| However, V2 constructions existed in Old French and were more common than in other early Romance language texts. |
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| For examples, see the sections on the Romance languages, Slavic languages and Irish. |
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| Such poetic copula dropping is more pronounced in some languages other than English, such as the Romance languages. |
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| Interlingua speakers use copulas with the same freedom as speakers of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages. |
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| Hence, the Romance languages generally use C and have K only in later loanwords from other language groups. |
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| Also, there are several big shows themed with the history and culture of Hangzhou like Impression West Lake and the Romance of Song Dynasty. |
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| He left later that year, though his Brook Farm adventure became an inspiration for his novel The Blithedale Romance. |
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| Romance never sang to him her siren song, and Adventure had never shouted in his sluggish blood. |
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| Some Gaulish words influenced Vulgar Latin and, through this, other Romance languages. |
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| Vulgar Latin featured a large vocabulary of words that were productive in Romance. |
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| English has also borrowed many words directly from Latin, the ancestor of the Romance languages, during all stages of its development. |
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| Vulgar Latin developed into the Romance languages, such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Romanian. |
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| One way to determine whether a Romance language feature was in Vulgar Latin is to compare it with its parallel in Classical Latin. |
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| He could retire to the idyllic with the knowledge that he had not been wanting when Romance called. |
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| Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe. |
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| It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. |
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| French grammar shares several notable features with most other Romance languages, including. |
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| Several forms of Latin existed, and the language evolved considerably over time, eventually becoming the Romance languages spoken today. |
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| An existing tradition of Romance fiction in France and Spain was popular in England. |
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| Sellers was again ill in Cannes, returning to his residence in Gstaad to work on the script for his next project, Romance of the Pink Panther. |
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| After his death, MGM tried to continue with Romance of the Pink Panther and offered the role of Clouseau to Dudley Moore, who turned it down. |
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| For this reason Modern French has only a single adjective declension, unlike most other Romance languages which have two or more. |
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| In general, the verbal system in the Romance languages changed less from Classical Latin than did the nominal system. |
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| However, some notable differences occur between today's Romance languages and their Roman ancestor. |
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| In Oceania, Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language, after French, due mainly to the number of speakers in East Timor. |
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| The remaining Romance languages survive mostly as spoken languages for informal contact. |
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| Yet it is unclear whether these political changes will be enough to reverse the decline of minority Romance languages. |
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| Some Romance languages have developed varieties which seem dramatically restructured as to their grammars or to be mixtures with other languages. |
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| It is not always clear whether they should be classified as Romance, pidgins, creole languages, or mixed languages. |
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| Stress in the Romance Languages mostly remains on the same syllable as in Latin, but various sound changes have made it no longer so predictable. |
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| Most Romance languages have two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. |
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| The same system underlines many other modern Romance languages, such as Portuguese, French and Catalan. |
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| Romance languages have both indefinite and definite articles, but none of the above words form the basis for either of these. |
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| For a more detailed illustration of how the verbs have changed with respect to classical Latin, see Romance verbs. |
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| Romance languages have borrowed heavily, though mostly from other Romance languages. |
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| Significant sound changes affected the consonants of the Romance languages. |
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| Consonant length is no longer phonemically distinctive in most Romance languages. |
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| The Romance languages for the most part have kept the writing system of Latin, adapting it to their evolution. |
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| The spelling rules of most Romance languages are fairly simple, but subject to considerable regional variation. |
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| The Romance languages do not follow the German practice of capitalizing all nouns including common ones. |
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| Heroic Romance is a genre of imaginative literature, which flourished in the 17th century, principally in France. |
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| The Romance languages of Italy are a less arguable example of a dialect continuum. |
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| On 21 October 2010, the band announced, via their Facebook page, that they would be supporting My Chemical Romance for three upcoming dates. |
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| Wallonia is named after the Walloons, the population of the Burgundian Netherlands speaking Romance languages. |
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| Two years later, it was first used to refer to the Romance part of the young country of Belgium. |
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| Today in Sicily most people are bilingual and speak both Italian and Sicilian, a distinct and historical Romance language. |
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| According to Article 2 of the Constitution, the official language of France is French, a Romance language derived from Latin. |
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| Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German but far fewer than English. |
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| Germanic languages such as Dutch and Luxembourgish were the predominant languages, although Romance languages also played an important role. |
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| Lubin begins Romance and Rights by explaining how World War II enabled interracial intimacy to become viewed as a civil rights issue. |
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| It spans different languages, English with some references to German, and the Romance languages Catalan and Spanish. |
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| Olgierda Furmanek, associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Wake Forest, who designed the new curriculum. |
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| At the present time, our Department of Romance Languages maintains three internationally recognized publications. |
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| Its aromatic, elegant style and hand-painted Belle Epoque bottle have established Fleur as The Champagne of Romance. |
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| The Romance Wedding Package at MOP 9,688 per table of 12 includes six hours of limousine service and a night in a Grand Macau Suite. |
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| Romance abounds, literally, when Toby jug landlord Alan Turner finds love with Shelley. |
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| Written in the ancient Romance language of Occitan or langue d'oc, the texts were undoubtedly sung, although. |
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| Both descend from a Romance language of the Middle Ages now referred to as Galician-Portuguese. |
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| The Bad Romance singer also showed off her sparkling, heartshaped engagement ring. |
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| Spanish is closely related to the other West Iberian Romance languages, including Asturian, Aragonese, Catalan, Galician, Ladino, Leonese, Mirandese and Portuguese. |
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| The Latin of the Western Roman Empire was gradually replaced by languages based on, but distinct from, Latin, collectively known as Romance languages. |
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| For instance, preposition stranding is largely absent from many of the other Germanic languages and it may be completely absent from the Romance languages. |
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| Romanian is the only major Romance language with a case system for all nouns, whereas all other languages dropped the cases replacing them by prepositions. |
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| Modern Romance languages merge the concepts of aspect and tense but consistently distinguish perfective and imperfective aspects in the past tense. |
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| Interlingua, in contrast with the Romance languages, has no irregular verb conjugations, and its verb forms are the same for all persons and numbers. |
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| The Romance languages, such as Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian, have more overt inflection than English, especially in verb conjugation. |
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| Thus, to refer to Maya as Mayans would be similar to referring to Spanish people as Romantics because they speak a language belonging to the Romance language family. |
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| The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek. |
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| After the fall of the empire, this started to break up into different dialects, and eventually, whole separate languages, resulting in the Romance languages of today. |
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| The Latin European or Romance European countries are Italy, France, Malta, Moldova, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and the Vatican City. |
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| Similarly Hispania had been populated by peoples who spoke various languages, including Celtic, but the area was now populated primarily by Romance language speakers. |
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| On the contrary, romanised European populations developed their own dialects of the language, which eventually led to the differentiation of Romance languages. |
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| That is most evident in European countries in which Romance languages are spoken and former colonies that have inherited the languages and other Roman influences. |
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| Walloon, considered either as a dialect of French or a distinct Romance language, is now only understood and spoken occasionally, mostly by elderly people. |
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| The eastern Romance continuum is dominated by Romanian in many respects. |
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| The dialects of Latin evolved into different Romance languages. |
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| Emilia Garofalo was a professor of Romance Languages and Literature for many years in some United States universities, and is currently the CEO of Stilus Copy Editors. |
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| From late 1907 Pound taught Romance languages at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, a conservative town that he called the sixth circle of hell. |
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| Romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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| Romance or chivalric romance is a type of narrative in prose or verse popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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| Vulgar Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear. |
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| The following are the most common use of diacritics in Romance languages. |
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| It was not until the Moorish conquest of Spain in 711 cut off communications between the major Romance regions that the languages began to diverge seriously. |
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| In more conservative Romance languages, neither articles nor subject pronouns are necessary, since all of the above words are pronounced differently. |
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| Object pronouns in Latin were normal words, but in the Romance languages they have become clitic forms, which must stand adjacent to a verb and merge phonologically with it. |
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| In addition, some Romance languages evolved more than others. |
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| In most modern Romance languages, in fact, case is no longer marked at all on nouns, adjectives and determiners, and most forms are derived from the Latin accusative case. |
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| In all Romance languages, this system was drastically reduced. |
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| If it is fair to regard epistolography as a spectrum of genres, then the Alexander Romance spans the full register from functional to philosophical. |
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| The Romance languages developed grammatical articles where Latin had none. |
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| There are various schemes used to subdivide the Romance languages. |
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| In all these countries, Latin American Spanish is the vernacular language of the majority of the population, giving Spanish the most native speakers of any Romance language. |
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| Freelance Romance was set up by Stick Theory founder Di Gates and Ryan Foster of Ryan Foster Design in a bid to remove the barriers that stop freelancers getting work. |
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| Apart from the grammatical and phonetic developments there were many cases of verbs merging as complex subtleties in Latin were reduced to simplified verbs in Romance. |
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| Except for the Italian and Romanian heteroclitic nouns, other major Romance languages have no trace of neuter nouns, but still have neuter pronouns. |
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| He was Professor Emeritus of Romance languages at Widener University. |
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| The most important romance of the 13th century is the Romance of the Rose which breaks considerably from the conventions of the chivalric adventure story. |
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| The incident later inspired a scene in his novel The Blithedale Romance. |
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| Romance blossomed across the court room and in the mixed-sex toilets but the kookie lawyer failed to win at relationships and was last seen jetting off into the sunset. |
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| The use of the letters I and V for both consonants and vowels proved inconvenient as the Latin alphabet was adapted to Germanic and Romance languages. |
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| This Germanic language shaped the popular Latin spoken here and gave it a very distinctive identity compared to the other future Romance languages. |
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| From this spoken language he naturally charts the development of the Romance languages in Part II as logical, arguably inevitable, consequences of Vulgar Latin. |
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| The manager sensed potential in Chaplin, who was promptly given his first role as a newsboy in Harry Arthur Saintsbury's Jim, a Romance of Cockayne. |
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| In English literature of the Elizabethan era, elves became conflated with the fairies of Romance culture, so that the two terms began to be used interchangeably. |
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| The resulting distinction in the modern forms is found in all the Iberian Romance languages, and to a lesser extent Italian, but not in French or Romanian. |
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