Historical romance linguistics : retrospective and perspectives / edited by Randall S. Gess, Deborah Arteaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gess, Randall Scott, 1963-

Arteaga, Deborah.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 274.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 274

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--History.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Jurgen Klausenburger

Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing / Travis G. Bradley and Ann Marie Delforge

The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French / Randall Gess

Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates / Haike Jacobs and Robbie van Gerwen

Rhythm and Prosodic Change / Michael L. Mazzola

Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change / Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil

On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French / Yves-Charles Morin

Is the 'Word' Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan / Douglas C. Walker

Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century / Paul Hirschbühler and Marie Labelle

The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian / Lori Repetti

On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme / Margaret E. Winters

German Influence in Romanian / Wiecher Zwanenburg

Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French / Deborah Arteaga and Julia Herschensohn

'Synthetic' vs. 'Analytic' in Romance: The Importance of Varieties / Brigitte L.M. Bauer

Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology / Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese / Ana Maria Martins

Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A Grammaticalization Analysis / Cinzia Russi

From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là in Franco-American French / Jane S. Smith

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156113

9781282156111

128215611X

9789027293824

9027293821

OCLC:

71348516