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Structures

Series The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, Volume 1

Edited by Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith and Adam Ledgeway

Publication Date 2011

Hardback ISBN-10
0521800722

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521800723

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521800723

Overview

This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume 1 is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

ROMANCE LINGUISTICS AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: REFLECTIONS ON SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY
by
Rosanna Sornicola

SYLLABLE, SEGMENT AND PROSODY
by
Michele Loporcaro

PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES
by
Michele Loporcaro

MORPHOLOGICAL PERSISTENCE
by
Martin Maiden

MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL INNOVATION
by
Martin Maiden

CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN FORM–FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS
by
John Charles Smith

MORPHOSYNTACTIC PERSISTENCE
by
Giampaolo Salvi

SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC TYPOLOGY AND CHANGE
by
Adam Ledgeway

PRAGMATIC AND DISCOURSE CHANGES
by
Maria M. Manoliu

WORD FORMATION
by
Brigitte L. M. Bauer

LEXICAL STABILITY
by
Arnulf Stefenelli

LEXICAL CHANGE
by
Steven N. Dworkin

LATIN AND THE STRUCTURE OF WRITTEN ROMANCE
by
Christopher J. Pountain

SLANG AND JARGONS
by
John Trumper

Notes

References and bibliographical abbreviations

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