Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

by Wolfe, Sam; Maiden, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780198840176
• ISBN10: 0198840179
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-07-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sam Wolfe, Associate Professor of French Linguistics, University of Oxford,Martin Maiden, Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden
Part I: Sentence structure
2. Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery, Sam Wolfe
3. Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective, Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
4. Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system, Adam Ledgeway
5. Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que, Franck Floricic
6. Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan, Sandra Paoli and Xavier Bach
7. The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective, Zack Bekowies and Mairi McLaughlin
Part II: The verb complex
8. Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance, Bridget Drinka
9. Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Rom?nia on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance, Delia Bentley
10. A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montr?al, B?atrice Rea
11. Pr?sent inclusif and pass? compose ? valeur de pr?sent accompli in modern French and Occitan, Ingmar S?hrman
12. Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar, Damien Mooney
13. Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing, Mari C. Jones
Part III: Word structure
14. On the origins of French and Occitan, Clive Sneddon
15. Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French, Brigitte L. M. Bauer
16. Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance, Nigel Vincent
17. Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties, Louise Esher
18. The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony, Martin Maiden
References
Index