New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Band 210) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027237174 ISBN 13: 9789027237170

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027237174
• ISBN 13: 9789027237170
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 249
• Herausgeber: Dworkin Steven N., Wanner Dieter
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