Table of contents
Author’s acknowledgmentsv
Table of contentsvii
Guide to abbreviationsxi
From particular to general linguistics
Introduction3
A. Genetic linguistics
Linguistics as a genetic science23
B. History of linguistics
History and histories of linguistics49
C. Clues as to dating
Range of variation as a clue to dating87
D. Convergence and divergence
Factors in the unity of ROMANIA129
E. Diffusion
Lexical borrowing in the Romance languages137
F. Language vs. the real world
Gender, sex, and size, as reflected in the Romance languages155
G. The social component of chance
The social matrix of Paleo-Romance postverbal nouns179
H. Lexical independence vs. grammatical constraint
Each word has a history of its own217
I. Multiple causation
Multi-conditioned sound change and the impact of morphology on phonology229
Multiple versus simple causation in linguistic change251
The five sources of epenthetic /j/ in western Hispano-Romance: A study in multiple causation269
On hierarchizing the components of multiple causation297
J. Accentology and phonology
Conflicting prosodic inferences from Ascoli’s and Darmesteter’s laws?323
Etiological studies in Romance diachronic phonology361
K. Affixal derivation
One characteristic derivational suffix of literary Italian: -(t)aggine399
The double affixation in Old-French gens-es-or, bel-ez-or, old Provençal bel-az-
or411
The rise of the nominal augments in Romance: Graeco-Latin and Tuscan clues to the prehistory of Hispano-Romance419
L. Etymology
Primary, secondary, and tertiary etymologies: The three lexical kernels of Hispanic saña, ensañar, sañudo473
Etymology and modern linguistics497
The interlocking of etymology and historical grammar (exemplified with the analysis of Spanish
desleír)513
Contacts between BLASPHĒMĀRE and AESTIMĀRE543
Supplement559
Index of names593
Selective index of key terms607