This commemorative work on the 65th birthday of the Romance studies scholar Günter Holtus compiles 67 essays by linguists and literary scholars from Europe, the USA and Latin America. The main areas of focus are variational linguistics and the history of linguistics, lexicography and lexicology, edition philology and research on scriptae, as well as Romance studies as a university discipline.

Wolfang Schweickard, Universität Saarbrücken; Anja Overbeck, Universität Göttingen; Harald Völker, ETH Zürich, Schweiz.