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This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the Gallo-Romance sub-family. It draws on a wealth of data from standard and non-standard varieties, and adopts a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches, including traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal syntax, and discourse-pragmatics.
List of contents
- 1: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden: Introduction
- Part I: Sentence structure
- 2: Sam Wolfe: Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery
- 3: Christine Meklenborg: Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective
- 4: Adam Ledgeway: Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system
- 5: Franck Floricic: Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que
- 6: Sandra Paoli and Xavier Bach: Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan
- 7: Zack Bekowies and Mairi McLaughlin: The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective
- Part II: The verb complex
- 8: Bridget Drinka: Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance
- 9: Delia Bentley: Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance
- 10: Béatrice Rea: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal
- 11: Ingmar Söhrman: Présent inclusif and passé compose à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan
- 12: Damien Mooney: Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar
- 13: Mari C. Jones: Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing
- Part III: Word structure
- 14: Clive Sneddon: On the origins of French and Occitan
- 15: Brigitte L. M. Bauer: Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French
- 16: Nigel Vincent: Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance
- 17: Louise Esher: Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties
- 18: Martin Maiden: The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony
- References
- Index
About the author
Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, having previously held teaching positions at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. The principal focus of his current research is a monograph on syntactic change in French, and he has ongoing projects on Venetian and on contact-induced changes in Romance languages. His first book, Verb Second in Medieval Romance, was published by OUP in 2019, and he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Woods, of Rethinking Verb Second (OUP 2020).
Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of Academia Europaea, and In 2014 he was appointed 'Commander' in the 'National Order for Faithful Service' of the Republic of Romania for services to knowledge of the Romanian language in Britain. His many publications include The Romance Verb: Morphomic Structure and Diachrony (OUP 2018), and, as co-editor with Adam Ledgeway, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP 2016). He is currently preparing, in collaboration with colleagues in Romania, the forthcoming OUP volume The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology.
Summary
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the Gallo-Romance sub-family. It draws on a wealth of data from standard and non-standard varieties, and adopts a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches, including traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal syntax, and discourse-pragmatics.
