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

A New Look At Linguistic Split In Romance / Frederick B. Agard -- Fossilization In French Syntax / Jean Casagrande -- Latin Origin Of Romance Rules / James Foley -- Tracing The Source Of A Lexical Gap / Georgia M. Green -- Syntactio-semantic Reconstruction In Romance / Daniel E. Gulstad -- Diphthongization, Monophthongization, Metaphony Revisited / James W. Harris -- The Etymologist As A Transformationalist / Henry Kahane -- Latin Vocalic Quantity To Quality : A Pseudo-problem? / Jurgen Klausenburger -- Contextual Change And Historical Change : The Translator As Time Machine / Robin Lakoff -- The Situational Motivation Of Syntax And The Syntactic Motivation Of Polysemy And Semantic Change : Spanish-italian Bravo, Etc. / J. Peter Maher -- The Development Of The Clitics In Hispano-romance / Carlos Otero -- Semantic Change Or Lexical Change? / Rebecca Posner -- Some Diachronic Deletion Processes And Their Synchronic Consequences In French / Sanford A. Schane -- The Verbal System Of French / Royal Skousen -- Hysteron Proteron And The Structure Of Discourse / Paolo Valesio -- That Erudite Enigma Revisited / Bruce Willis. Ed. By Mario Saltarelli And Dieter Wanner. Includes Bibliographies. Acknowledgments Contents Preface Abstracts A New Look at Linguistic Split in Romance Fossilization in French Syntax Latin Origin of Romance Rules Tracing the Source of a Lexical Gap Syntactico-Semantic Reconstruction in Romance Diphthongization, Monophthongization, Metaphony Revisited The Etymologist as a Transformationalist Latin Vocalic Quantity to Quality: A Pseudo-Problem? Contextual Change and Historical Change: The Translator as Time Machine The Situational Motivation of Syntax and the Syntactic Motivation of Polysemy and Semantic Change: Spanish-Italian Bravo, etc. The Development of the Clitics in Hispano-Romance Semantic Change or Lexical Change? Some Diachronic Deletion Processes and Their Synchronic Consequences in French The Verbal System of French Hýsteron Próteron and the Structure of Discourse That Erudite Enigma Revisited

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