New Approaches to Old Problems
Issues in Romance historical linguistics
Published on 13. November 2000
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-1-58811-021-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented at the parasession, "New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics", held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in Romance historical linguistics within the framework of new analytical approaches, many of which represent extensions into the diachronic realm of methodologies and theories originally formulated to explain aspects of synchronic phonology and syntax. Insights afforded by Principles and Parameters, the Minimalist Program, Optimality Theory, grammaticalization theory, and sociohistorical linguistics are used to elucidate such long-standing issues in traditional historical grammar as diphthongization in Hispano-Romance, syncope of intertonic vowels in Hispano- and Gallo-Romane, Romance lenition, the role of analogy in morphological change, word order, infinitival constructions, and the collocation of clitic object pronouns in Old French and Old Spanish.
Reviews / Votes
Le titre du livre est pleinement justifie en ceci qu'il offre en effet des tentatives de reinterpretation de faits bien connus, dans une perspective methodologique nouvelle. [...] on ne pourra donc que lui souhaiter une bonne reception aupres des romanistes s'interessant aux tendances actuelles de la linguistique historique [...]. -- Joachim Lengert , in Revue de Linguistique Romane, Jul-Dec 2003More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-021-3 (9781588110213)
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Dworkin, Steven N.); 3. Part I. General Problems; 4. Beyond Parameters (by Wanner, Dieter); 5. A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the 'Cycle' in Historical Romance Linguistics (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 6. Part II. Phonology and Morphology; 7. Romance Lenition (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 8. An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old Spanish (by Hartkemeyer, Dale); 9. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish (by Martinez, Glenn A.); 10. Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile (by Tuten, Donald N.); 11. Part III. Syntax and Semantics; 12. Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival Complements (by Davies, Mark); 13. The Role of Features in Historical Change (by Dufresne, Monique); 14. Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement Morphology (by Enrique-Arias, Andres); 15. Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placements of French Clitics (by Hirschbuhler, Paul); 16. Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion (by Johnson, Ken); 17. A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel's Law (by Mallen, Enrique); 18. Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French (by Martineau, France); 19. Subject Index