Table of contents
Introduction1
Lexicology
From Intuitive Etymology through Word-History to Microglottology9
Problems in the Diachronic Differentiation of Near-Homophones37
Toward Higher Formalization in Etymology: The Spanish Culinary Term ciliérvade and its Variants73
Crumēna, a Latin Lexical Isolate, and its Survival in Hispano-Romance (Sp. Colmena, dial. cormena ‘Beehive’)85
Affixation
Infinitive Endings, Conjugation Classes, Nominal Derivational Suffixes, and Vocalic Gamuts in Romance105
The Old French Verbal Abstracts in -ëiz139
Phonology
Apocope: Straight; Through Contact of Languages; via Suffixal Polarization. The Spanish Derivational Morphemes and Word-Final Segments -ín and -ino181
The Transmission into Romance of Latin nōdus, nŭptiœ, nŭrus, and nŭx: Diachronic Interplay of Phonetic and Semantic Analogies207
The Fluctuating Intensity of a ‘Sound Law’: Some Vicissitudes of Latin ěand ŏin Spanish231
The Discovery in Old French Phonology of the Niece, Piece, Tierç, Cierge Type247
Retrospect267
Index of Names281
Index of Key Concepts287
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