I-VIII -- 2.1 Linguistic description -- Introduction -- Phonetics and phonology -- Synchronic comparative grammar or in quest of the Romance type -- Some problems in semantic investigation -- 2.2 Sociolinguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Studies on linguistic nationalism in the Romance languages -- 2.3 Methodological approaches -- Idealism -- La psychosystématique du langage dans les études romanes -- La glossématique -- Functionalism and Romance linguistics -- Generative grammar -- Index of Names