New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics

New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics
ISBN-10
9027237174
ISBN-13
9789027237170
Category
Romance languages
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2000-01-01
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing
Authors
Dieter Wanner, Steven Norman Dworkin

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.

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