Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony

Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest. His publications include From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP, 2016), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax (CUP, 2017), and Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces (Benjamins, 2019). He is also co-editor of the Journal of Linguistics.


John Charles Smith is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford (where he was Official Fellow and Tutor in French Linguistics) and Deputy Director Emeritus of the University of Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He has also held posts at the universities of Surrey, Bath, and Manchester, as well as visiting appointments in Limoges, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, and Philadelphia, and was created Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques by the French government for services to the French language and French culture. He has published on a range of linguistic topics, and co-edited several volumes, including The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013) and The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (OUP, 2013).

Nigel Vincent is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at The University of Manchester, where he was Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology from 1987 to 2011. He previously held posts at the Universities of London (Birkbeck College), Lancaster, Hull, and Cambridge, as well as visiting appointments in Copenhagen, Pavia, and Rome, and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea. His recent publications include, as co-editor and contributor, Diachrony and Dialects (OUP, 2014) and Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change? (CUP, 2016).