Title: Historical Romance Linguistics
Subtitle: Retrospective and Perspectives
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 274
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Randall S. Gess, University of Utah
Editor: Deborah L Arteaga, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247889 Pages: viii, 393 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247889 Pages: viii, 393 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Abstract:
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 Randall S. Gess and Deborah Arteaga vii
Introduction: From Romance Philology to (Historical) Romance Linguistics? Jurgen Klausenburger 1
Part I: Phonology
Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing Travis G. Bradley and Ann Marie Delforge 19
The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French Randall S. Gess 53
Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates Haike Jacobs and Robbie van Gerwen 77
Rhythm and Prosodic Change Michael L. Mazzola 97
Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil 111
On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French: A Sociolinguistic Perspective Yves-Charles Morin 131
Is the 'Word' Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan Douglas C. Walker 163
Part II: Morphology
Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century: The Speech of the Future Louis XIIIth Paul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle 187
The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian Lori Repetti 209
On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme Margaret E. Winters 237
German Influence in Romanian Wiecher Zwanenburg 253
Part III: Syntax
Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French Deborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn 269-286
'Synthetic' vs. 'Analytic' in Romance: The Importance of Varieties Brigitte L.M. Bauer 287-304
Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio 305-325
Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese Ana Maria Martins 327-355
Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A Grammaticalization Analysis Cinzia Russi 357-374
From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là in Franco-American French Jane S. Smith 375-387
General Index 389-393
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Phonology
Syntax
Language Family(ies): Romance
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