Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction I. Romance word classes: theoretical and historical foundations -- 1 Theoretical foundation for a classification of words 2 How to classify words 3 Word classes in the history of Western grammar 4 Parts of speech in the Romance grammars of the Renaissance II. Word classes in the major Romance languages -- 5 Nouns 6 Adjectives 7 Determiners 8 Pronouns 9 Quantifiers 10 Negation and negative expressions 11 Verb classes 12 Auxiliary verbs 13 Grammatical categories of the verb 14 Verbal categories expressing syntactic dependencies 15 Adverbs 16 Focalisers 17 Modal particles 18 Prepositions 19 Conjunctions III. Word classes in smaller Romance varieties -- 20 Word classes in Occitan 21 Word classes in Sardinian 22 Word classes in Romansh 23 Word classes in Ladin 24 Word classes in Northern Italian dialects 25 Word classes in Southern Italian dialects 26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles IV. Romance word classes and their interfaces: new horizons -- 27 Word classes and psycholinguistics 28 Word classes and learner varieties 29 Word classes and corpus linguistics 30 Word classes and neurolinguistics 31 Exploring the behaviour of connectives within a textometric perspective Index