Historical Romance Linguistics
Retrospective and perspectives
Editors
This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. An introduction by the eminent Romance Linguist Jürgen Klausenburger addresses the fit of these studies in the overall development of the field of historical Romance linguistics since the 19th century. The studies in this volume demonstrate an organic link between Malkiel’s (1961) ‘classic’ definition of Romance linguistics and the field of Romance linguistics today, because just as scholars of the field in the 19th century successfully applied the dominant paradigm of (historical) linguistics of their time, Neogrammarian theory, so do the authors contained in the present volume avail themselves of current linguistic advances to achieve equally significant results.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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ForewordRandall Gess and Deborah Arteaga | p. vii
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Introduction: From Romance Philology to (Historical) Romance Linguistics?Jurgen Klausenburger | p. 1
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Part I: Phonology
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Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant VoicingTravis G. Bradley and Ann Marie Delforge | p. 19
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The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance FrenchRandall Gess | p. 53
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Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of AffricatesHaike Jacobs and Robbie van Gerwen | p. 77
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Rhythm and Prosodic ChangeMichael L. Mazzola | p. 97
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Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical ChangeJean-Pierre Y. Montreuil | p. 111
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On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French: A Sociolinguistic PerspectiveYves-Charles Morin | p. 131
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Is the ‘Word’ Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from VerlanDouglas C. Walker | p. 163
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Part II: Morphology
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Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century: The Speech of the Future Louis XIIIthPaul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle | p. 187
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The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in ItalianLori Repetti | p. 209
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On the Life and (Near) Death of a MorphophonemeMargaret E. Winters | p. 237
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German Influence in RomanianWiecher Zwanenburg | p. 253
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Part III: Syntax
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Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern FrenchDeborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn | pp. 269–286
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‘Synthetic’ vs. ‘Analytic’ in Romance: The Importance of VarietiesBrigitte L.M. Bauer | pp. 287–304
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Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal MorphologyBarbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio | pp. 305–325
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Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of PortugueseAna Maria Martins | pp. 327–355
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Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A GrammaticalizationAnalysisCinzia Russi | pp. 357–374
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From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là inFranco-American FrenchJane S. Smith | pp. 375–387
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General Index | pp. 389–393
“This marvelous new book [...] looks at language change in Europe. [...] Romance languages are so interesting because their common ancestor, Latin, left such a varied and complicated legacy. This books delves into that legacy [...].”
Nathan Bierman, in the Chicago Tribune, September 2006.
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Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General