Diachronic Studies in Romance Linguistics - Papers presented at a Conference on Diachronic Romance Linguistics, University of Illinois, April 1972

Frontmatter -- Abstracts -- A New Look at Linguistic Split in Romance / AGARD, FREDERICK B. -- Fossilization in French Syntax / CASAGRANDE, JEAN -- Latin Origin of Romance Rules / FOLEY, JAMES -- Tracing the Source of a Lexical Gap / GREEN, GEORGIA M. -- Syntactico-Semantic Reconstruction in Romance / GULSTAD, DANIEL E. -- Diphthongization, Monophthongization, Metaphony Revisited / HARRIS, JAMES W. -- The Etymologist as a Transformationalist / KAHANE, HENRY -- Latin Vocalic Quantity to Quality: A Pseudo-Problem? / KLAUSENBURGER, JURGEN -- Contextual Change and Historical Change: The Translator as Time Machine / LAKOFF, ROBIN -- The Situational Motivation of Syntax and the Syntactic Motivation of Polysemy and Semantic Change: Spanish-Italian Bravo, etc. / MAHER, J. PETER -- The Development of the Clitics in Hispano-Romance / OTERO, CARLOS -- Semantic Change or Lexical Change? / POSNER, REBECCA -- Some Diachronic Deletion Processes and Their Synchronic Consequences in French / SCHANE, SANFORD A. -- The Verbal System of French / SKOUSEN, ROYAL -- Hýsteron Próteron and the Structure of Discourse / VALESIO, PAOLO -- That Erudite Enigma Revisited / WILLIS, BRUCE

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• Assisted by: Mario Saltarelli (Editor), Dieter Wanner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1975
• EAN: 9789027934734
• ISBN: 978-90-279-3473-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 23 mm x 280 mm
• Weight: 960 g
• Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Practica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics