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