Table of contents:
- Author's acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Guide to abbreviations
- From particular to general linguistics
- Introduction
- A. Genetic linguistics
- Linguistics as a genetic science
- B. History of linguistics
- History and histories of linguistics
- C. Clues as to dating
- Range of variation as a clue to dating
- D. Convergence and divergence
- Factors in the unity of ROMANIA
- E. Diffusion
- Lexical borrowing in the Romance languages
- F. Language vs. the real world
- Gender, sex, and size, as reflected in the Romance languages
- G. The social component of chance
- The social matrix of Paleo-Romance postverbal nouns
- H. Lexical independence vs. grammatical constraint
- Each word has a history of its own
- I. Multiple causation
- Multi-conditioned sound change and the impact of morphology on phonology
- Multiple versus simple causation in linguistic change
- The five sources of epenthetic /j/ in western Hispano-Romance
- On hierarchizing the components of multiple causation
- J. Accentology and phonology
- Conflicting prosodic inferences from Ascoli's and Darmesteter's laws?
- Etiological studies in Romance diachronic phonology
- K. Affixal derivation
- One characteristic derivational suffix of literary Italian
- The double affixation in Old-French gens-es-or, bel-ez-or, old Provençal bel-az-or
- The rise of the nominal augments in Romance
- L. Etymology
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary etymologies
- Etymology and modern linguistics
- The interlocking of etymology and historical grammar (exemplified with the analysis of Spanishdesleír)
- Contacts between BLASPHMRE and AESTIMRE
- Supplement
- Index of names
- Selective index of key terms
- Author's acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Guide to abbreviations
- From particular to general linguistics
- Introduction
- A. Genetic linguistics
- Linguistics as a genetic science
- B. History of linguistics
- History and histories of linguistics
- C. Clues as to dating
- Range of variation as a clue to dating
- D. Convergence and divergence
- Factors in the unity of ROMANIA
- E. Diffusion
- Lexical borrowing in the Romance languages
- F. Language vs. the real world
- Gender, sex, and size, as reflected in the Romance languages
- G. The social component of chance
- The social matrix of Paleo-Romance postverbal nouns
- H. Lexical independence vs. grammatical constraint
- Each word has a history of its own
- I. Multiple causation
- Multi-conditioned sound change and the impact of morphology on phonology
- Multiple versus simple causation in linguistic change
- The five sources of epenthetic /j/ in western Hispano-Romance
- On hierarchizing the components of multiple causation
- J. Accentology and phonology
- Conflicting prosodic inferences from Ascoli's and Darmesteter's laws?
- Etiological studies in Romance diachronic phonology
- K. Affixal derivation
- One characteristic derivational suffix of literary Italian
- The double affixation in Old-French gens-es-or, bel-ez-or, old Provençal bel-az-or
- The rise of the nominal augments in Romance
- L. Etymology
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary etymologies
- Etymology and modern linguistics
- The interlocking of etymology and historical grammar (exemplified with the analysis of Spanishdesleír)
- Contacts between BLASPHMRE and AESTIMRE
- Supplement
- Index of names
- Selective index of key terms