Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Phonology
- Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing
- The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French
- Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates
- Rhythm and Prosodic Change
- Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change
- On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French
- Is the 6;Word' Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan
- Part II: Morphology
- Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century
- The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian
- On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme
- German Influence in Romanian
- Part III: Syntax
- Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French
- 'Synthetic' vs. 'Analytic' in Romance: The Importance of Varieties
- Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology
- Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese
- Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A GrammaticalizationAnalysis
- From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là inFranco-American French
- General Index
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.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Phonology
- Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing
- The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French
- Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates
- Rhythm and Prosodic Change
- Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change
- On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French
- Is the 6;Word' Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan
- Part II: Morphology
- Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century
- The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian
- On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme
- German Influence in Romanian
- Part III: Syntax
- Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French
- 'Synthetic' vs. 'Analytic' in Romance: The Importance of Varieties
- Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology
- Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese
- Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A GrammaticalizationAnalysis
- From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là inFranco-American French
- General Index