Eugenio Coseriu and the history of Romance language studies in the 17th and 18th century

The two volumes under review bring to completion the opus magnum of the Romance scholar and general linguist Eugenio Coseriu 1 on the history of Romance linguistics (or more broadly but also more accurately: languagerelated investigations) up to the beginning of the 19th century.Based on carefully prepared materials for a series of Vorlesungen at Tübingen university, given by Coseriu between 1970 and 1976, this Geschichte der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft (henceforth: GesRomSpr; the numeral that follows indicates the respective volume) has now been published, thanks to the dedicated efforts of some of his students, principally the late Reinhard Meisterfeld , who pre-