New Approaches to Old Problems
Issues in Romance historical linguistics
Editors
This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, “New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics”, held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance historical linguistics within the framework of new analytical approaches, many of which represent extensions into the diachronic realm of methodologies and theories originally formulated to explain aspects of synchronic phonology and syntax. Insights afforded by Principles and Parameters, the Minimalist Program, Optimality Theory, grammaticalization theory, and sociohistorical linguistics are used to elucidate such long-standing issues in traditional historical grammar as diphthongization in Hispano-Romance, syncope of intertonic vowels in Hispano- and Gallo-Romane, Romance lenition, the role of analogy in morphological change, word order, infinitival constructions, and the collocation of clitic object pronouns in Old French and Old Spanish.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 210] 2000. xiv, 235 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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IntroductionSteven N. Dworkin | p. ix
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Part I. General Problems
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Beyond ParametersDieter Wanner | p. 3
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A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the Cycle in Historical Romance LinguisticsJurgen Klausenburger | p. 33
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Part II. Phonology and Morphology
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Romance LenitionThomas D. Cravens | p. 47
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An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old SpanishDale Hartkemeyer | p. 65
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Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest SpanishGlenn A. Martínez | p. 85
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Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early CastileDonald N. Tuten | p. 97
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Part III. Syntax and Semantics
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Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival ComplementsMark Davies | p. 109
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The Role of Features in Historical ChangeMonique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Mireille Tremblay | p. 129
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Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement MorphologyAndrés Enrique-Arias | p. 149
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Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placements of French CliticsPaul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle | p. 165
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Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-InversionKen Johnson | p. 183
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A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagels LawEnrique Mallén | p. 199
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Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in FrenchFrance Martineau and Virginia Motapanyane | p. 217
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Subject Index | p. 233
“Le titre du livre est pleinement justifié en ceci qu'il offre en effet des tentatives de réinterprétation de faits bien connus, dans une perspective méthodologique nouvelle. [...] on ne pourra donc que lui souhaiter une bonne réception auprès des romanistes s'intéressant aux tendances actuelles de la linguistique historique [...].”
Joachim Lengert , in Revue de Linguistique Romane, Jul-Dec 2003
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Cited by two other publications
Oesterreicher, Wulf
2015. Zum Status der romanistischen Linguistik – Gegen ihre ‚Verächter‘. In Historische Sprachwissenschaft als philologische Kulturwissenschaft, ► pp. 15 ff. 
Cano Aguilar, Rafael
2012. Reseña de A history of the Spanish lexicon. A linguistic perspective / Steven N. Dworkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española :7 ► pp. 244 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General