Roger Wright:
Published Books include:
1. Late Latin and Early Romance (in Spain and Carolingian France), Liverpool,
Francis Cairns, 1982 (xii + 322 pp.)
This can be ordered via e-mail, franciscairns@netscapeonline.co.uk
** hay traducción castellana, Latín tardío y romance temprano, Madrid, Gredos,
1989 (479 pp.).
2. Early Ibero-Romance: twenty-one studies on language and texts from the Iberian
Peninsula between the Roman Empire and the Thirteenth Century, Newark,
Delaware, Juan de la Cuesta Monographs, 1995 (xi + 355 pp.).
This can be ordered from www.JuandelaCuesta.com
3. Spanish Ballads with English Verse Translations, Warminster, Aris and Phillips,
1987 (243 pp.).
-- This has now undergone its third reprinting, and can be ordered from Oxbow
Books in Oxford, www.oxbowbooks.com.
4. Spanish Ballads, London, Grant and Cutler (Critical Guide to Spanish Texts, 52),
1991 (104 pp.).
-- This can be ordered from Grant and Cutler: fax (0044)-207-734-9272
5. (ed.) Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages; the original
hardback edition, London, Routledge, 1991 (262 pp.) is sold out; the paperback
reprint, Penn State Press, 1996, is still available.
To order this, contact www.psu.edu/psupress
6. (ed., with D. Ranson and R. Blake), Essays in Hispanic Linguistics dedicated to
Paul M. Lloyd, Newark, Delaware, Juan de la Cuesta Monographs, 1999 (x + 258
pp.).
To order this, contact www.JuandelaCuesta.com
7. El Tratado de Cabreros (1206): estudio sociofilológico de una reforma
ortográfica, London, QMW College Medieval Hispanic Series (no.19), 2000 (130
pp.)
-- To order this, e-mail the General Editor of the "Papers of the Medieval
Hispanic Research Seminar", Dr Martin Duffell, at m.j.duffell@qmul.ac.uk.
8. Editor and Translator of the English version of József Herman, Vulgar Latin,
Penn State Press, 2000 (130 pp.).
To order this, contact www.psu.edu/psupress
9. A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin, Turnhout, Brepols (Utrecht Studies in
Medieval Literacy, 10), 2003 (389 pp.).
To order this, contact www.brepols.com/; or if that website is not working,
www.oxbowbooks.com
This is a selection of my c.100 published Articles:
"Speaking, Reading and Writing Late Latin and Early Romance", Neophilologus, 60,
1976, 178-89
"The First Poem on the Cid: the Carmen Campi Doctoris", Papers of the Liverpool Latin
Seminar, 2, 1979, 213-48
"Late Latin and Early Romance: Alcuin's De Orthographia and the Council of Tours
(813 A.D.)", Papers of the LiverpooL Latin Seminar, 3, 1981, 343-63
"Lázaro's success", Neophilologus, 68, 1984, 529-33
"Indistinctive Features (Facial and Semantic)", Romance Philology, 38, 1985, 275-92
"Several ballads, one epic and two chronicles", La Corónica, 18, 1990, 21-38 and l9,
1991, xiii-xiv
"Textos asturianos de los siglos IX y X: )latín bárbaro o romance escrito?", Lletres
asturianes, 41, 1991, 20-34
"On editing 'Latin' texts written by Romance-speakers", in Linguistic Studies in Medieval
Spanish, ed. R. Harris-Northall and T. D. Cravens, Madison, Hispanic Seminary for
Medieval Studies, 1991, 191-208
"La enseanza de la ortografía en la Galicia de hace mil aos", Verba, 18, 1991, 5-25
"Why did Unamuno write Sombras de Sueo?", Hispanic Studies in Honour of Geoffrey
Ribbans, Liverpool, U.P., 1992, 185-90
"The Asterisk in Hispanic Historical Linguistics", Journal of Hispanic Research, l, 1992,
1-16
"La metalingüística del siglo doce espanol y la 'Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris'", in Actas
del II Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Espaola, Madrid, Pabellón
de Espaa, Vol. II, 1992, 879-886
"Complex Monolingualism in Early Romance", in Linguistic Perspectives on the
Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages, ed. W.J. Ashby et al., Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1993, 377-88
"La escritura: )foto o disfraz?", Actas del Primer Congreso Anglo-Hispano, Vol. I.
(Lingüística), ed. R. Penny, Madrid, Castalia, 1992, 225-34
"Sociolinguistigue d'Espagne (VIIIe - XIe sicles)", Médiévales, 25, 1993, 61-70
"Logographic script and assumptions of literacy in Tenth-Century Spain", in M. Parry et
al. (eds), The Changing Voices of Europe, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1994, 125-
39
"Review article: Viva Voce by Michel Banniard", Journal of Medieval Latin, 3, 1993, 77-
92
"Fact and fiction in language and literature", in C. Lupu and G. Price (eds), Hommages
Offerts a Maria Manoliu-Manea, Bucharest, Pluralia/Logos, 1994, 172-205
"La muerte del ladino escrito en Al-Andalús", Euphrosyne, 22, 1994, 255-68 (translated
as "The end of written ladino in Al-Andalus", in The Forming of the Classical Islamic
World vol.47, The Formation of Al-Andalus: II, ed. Maribel Fierro and Julio Samsó,
London, Variorum, 1998, 19-35)
"Sintaxis reflexiva con semántica no agentiva", Actas del I Congreso Nacional de Latín
Medieval, ed. M. Pérez González, León, 1995, 415-31
"Status Quaestionis: los estudios diacrónicos del espaol", Lingüística, 5, 1993, 77-126
In the Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. by R. E. Asher (Oxford,
Pergamon, 1994): "Language Change ­ Textual Evidence", Vol.IV, 1947-52; "Romance
Languages", Vol.VII, 3602- 03; "Spanish", Vol.VIII, 4074-76
"Latin in Spain: Early Ibero-Romance", in The Origins and Development of Emigrant
Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium, ed. H.-F. Nielsen
and L. Schosler, Odense, Odense University Press, 1996, 277-98
"Latin and Romance in the Castilian Chancery (1180-1230)", Bulletin of Hispanic
Studies, 72, 1996, 115-28
"Linguistic Standardization in the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula: advantages and
disadvantages", in De Mot En Mot: Aspects of Medieval Linguistics. Essays in Honour of
William Rothwell, ed. S. Gregory and D. A. Trotter, Cardiff, MHRA/ University of
Wales Press, 1997, 261-75
** traducción espaola en Moenia, 3, 1997, 471-87
"Translation between Latin and Romance in the Early Middle Ages", in Translation
Theory and Practice in The Middle Ages, ed. J. Beer, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute,
1997, 7-32
** traducción espaola en Signa, 6, 1999, 39-60
"The dating of the earliest Fuero translations", in Translation Studies in Hispanic
Contexts, ed. N. Round, Oxford, Carfax, 1998, 9-16
"Il latino: da madrelingua nativa a lingua straniera", La transizione dal latino alle lingue
romanze, ed. J. Herman, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1998, 77-85
Review Article of Claudio García Turza and Javier García Turza, Fuentes Espaolas
Medievales: el códice emilianense 46 de la Real Academia de la Historia, primer
diccionario enciclopédico de la Península Ibérica: edición y estudio, Lingüística 10,
1998, 165-76
"Reading a will in Twelfth-Century Salamanca", in Latin vulgaire - latin tardif: Actes du
Ve Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, ed. H. Petersmann, Heidelberg,
Winter, 1999, 505-16
"Expansión y divergencia: el latín en el viejo mundo, el espaol en el nuevo", Actas del
XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América
Latina, ed. J. A. Samper Padilla et al., Las Palmas, Universidad, 1999, Vol.I, 107-22
"Problemas que suscitan las glosas emilianenses y silenses", Actas del IV Congreso
Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Espaola, ed. C. García Turza, Logroo, Univ.
de la Rioja, 1999, Vol.II, 965-73
"Comparative, structural and sociolinguistic analyses of the History of the Romance
Languages", in The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences, ed. J. Joseph et al,
Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1999, Vol.II, 175-88
"Point of view in the Ballad Performer", Hispanic Research Journal 1, 2000, 97-104
"Latino e Romanzo: Bonifazio e il Papa Gregorio II", in La preistoria dell'italiano, ed. J.
Herman and A. Marinetti, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 2000, 219-30
"The assertion of Ibero-Romance", Forum for Modern Language Studies, 36, 2000, 230-
40
"The Future of Spanish: Divergence or Convergence?", La Marca Hispánica, 11, 2000,
1-21
"La sociofilología y el origen de la primera documentación cancilleresca en forma
romance en Castilla", in Lengua medieval y tradiciones discursivas en la Península
Ibérica, ed. J. Kabatek and D.Jacob, Frankfurt, Vervuert, 2001, 63-78
"Léxico romance en los Glosarios de San Millán", Actas del V Congreso Internacional
de Historia de la Lengua Espaola, ed. M. Echenique and J. Sánchez Méndez, Madrid,
Gredos, 2002, Vol.II, 2421-26
"Early Medieval Pan-Romance Comprehension", in Word, Image, Number:
Communication in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Contreni and S. Casciani, Firenze, Sismel,
2002, 23-40
"La sociolingüística y la sociofilología del siglo XII", in Actas del VI Congreso
Internacional de Historia de la Cultura Escrita, Vol.III, ed. Carlos Sáez, Alcalá de
Henares, Universidad, 2002, 7-30
"A sociophilological approach to the earliest Romance texts: [t], /t/ and t in Castile (1206-
1208)", in The Dawn of the Written Vernacular in Western Europe, ed. Michle Goyens,
Leuven, University Press, 2003, 201-14
"Rhythmic Poetry and the Author's Vernacular", in Poetry of Early Medieval Europe:
Manuscripts, Language and Music of the Rhythmical Latin Texts, ed. Edoardo D'Angelo
and Francesco Stella, Firenze, Sismel, 2003, 343-57
"Historical Romance Linguistics: the Renaissance of a Discipline", La Coronica, 31,
2003, 127-34
Review Article: R. L. Trask, The Dictionary of Comparative and Historical Linguistics,
in Revista Portuguesa de Filología, 24, 2001-2002, 365-76
"The Language of De Dies Malus and the Joca Monachorum in the Bobbio Missal", in
The Bobbio Missal; liturgy and religious culture in Merovingian Gaul, ed. Yitzhak Hen
and Rob Meens, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 124-39
"La période de transition du latin, de la lingua romana et du français", Médiévales, 45,
2003, 11-24
"La periodizzazione del romanzo", in Italia Linguistica Anno Mille / Italia Linguistica
Anno Duemila: Atti del XXXIV Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Societ di
Linguistica Italiana, ed. N. Maraschio and T. Poggi Salani, Roma, Bulzoni, 2004, 53-68
"Sociophilology and Twelfth-Century Spain", Medioevo Romanzo 27, 2003, 257-74
"Spanish Ballads in a Changing World", in The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad
Traditions and European Ballad Cultures, ed. P. Bennett and R. Green, Amsterdam,
Rodopi, 2004, 169-80
"Latin and English as World Languages", English Today 20.4, 2004
There are also several articles in Press.
I have published Reviews in the following journals:
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (many)
Romance Philology
Studies in Language
Early Medieval Europe
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Medium Aevum
Journal of Linguistics
Diachronica
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Revista de Filología Espaola
Bryn Mawr Medieval Review
La Corónica
Lingüística
Liverpool Classical Monthly
Archivum Linguisticum
Times Higher Educational Supplement
Modern Language Review
Hispanic Research Journal
Hispanic Review
Revista de Filología Asturiana
Romanische Forschungen
Tessera
Speculum
General Linguistics
Language
Signo
Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
With Dr Max W. Wheeler, I prepared the "Spanish Language" sections in the Year's
Work in Modern Language Studies, Vols 4l (1979) to 48 (1986); then with Dr
Christopher Lyons, Vols 49 (1987) to 51 (1989).