This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most
widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and
Spanish--and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Czech National Corpus'
massive language database, the authors analyze a range of linguistic
categories to discover the differences and similarities between Czech
and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as
well as the high number of languages examined, this book presents
general and individual typological features of the four Romance
languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted
in the field of comparative linguistics.