Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony A View from Romance

by Ledgeway, Adam; Smith, John Charles; Vincent, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780198870807
• ISBN10: 0198870809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Adam Ledgeway, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge,John Charles Smith, Emeritus Fellow, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford,Nigel Vincent, Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics, The University of Manchester

Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest. His publications include From Latin to Romance:
Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP, 2016), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax (CUP, 2017), and Italian Dialectology at the
Interfaces (Benjamins, 2019). He is also co-editor of the Journal of Linguistics.


John Charles Smith is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford (where he was Official Fellow and Tutor in French Linguistics) and Deputy Director Emeritus of the University of Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He has also held posts at the universities of Surrey, Bath, and
Manchester, as well as visiting appointments in Limoges, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, and Philadelphia, and was created Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques by the French government for services to the French language and French culture. He has published on a range of linguistic topics, and
co-edited several volumes, including The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013) and The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (OUP, 2013).

Nigel Vincent is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at The University of Manchester, where he was Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology from 1987 to 2011. He previously held posts at the Universities of London (Birkbeck College), Lancaster, Hull, and Cambridge, as well as
visiting appointments in Copenhagen, Pavia, and Rome, and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea. His recent publications include, as co-editor and contributor, Diachrony and Dialects (OUP, 2014)
and Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change? (CUP, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent
Part I: The Status of Periphrasis and Inflexion
1. Periphrasis and inflexion: Lessons from Romance, Adam Ledgeway and Nigel Vincent
2. The boundaries of inflexion and periphrasis, John Charles Smith
Part II: Periphrasis
3. Layering and divergence in Romance periphrases, Nigel Vincent and Max W. Wheeler
4. The GO-future and GO-past periphrases in Gallo-Romance: A comparative investigation, Sandra Paoli and Sam Wolfe
5. The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance: Grammaticalization 'again'!, Mair Parry
6. Periphrastic morphomes in Italo-Romance, Silvio Cruschina
Part III: Auxiliation
7. Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance and inflexional classes, Xavier Bach and Pavel Štichauer
8. The morphological nature of person-driven auxiliation: Evidence from shape conditions, Michele Loporcaro
Part IV: Analysis vs Synthesis
9. The loss of analyticity in the history of Romanian verbal morphology, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae, and Rodica Zafiu
10. The relationship between inflexional and analytic marking of obliques in Romanian, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan and Oana Uţă Bărbulescu
11. A diachronic perspective on polymorphism, overabundance, and polyfunctionalism, Rosanna Sornicola
Part V: Inflexion and its Interfaces
12. Thematic and lexico-aspectual constraints on V-S agreement: Evidence from Northern Italo-Romance, Delia Bentley and Michela Cennamo
13. Conditioned epenthesis in Romance, Mark Aronoff and Lori Repetti
14. Koineization and language contact: The social causes of morphological change in and with Portuguese, Paul O'Neill and Tom Finbow
References
Index