The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, StructuresMartin Maiden, John Charles Smith, Adam Ledgeway Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 866 pages This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages. |
Table des matières
reflections on synchrony and diachrony | 1 |
2 Syllable segment and prosody | 50 |
3 Phonological processes | 109 |
4 Morphological persistence | 155 |
5 Morphophonological innovation | 216 |
6 Change and continuity in formfunction relationships | 268 |
7 Morphosyntactic persistence | 318 |
8 Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change | 382 |
10 Word formation | 532 |
11 Lexical stability | 564 |
12 Lexical change | 585 |
13 Latin and the structure of written Romance | 606 |
14 Slang and jargons | 660 |
Notes | 682 |
References and bibliographical abbreviations | 746 |
842 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
accusative adjectives adverbs allomorphy alternation auxiliary borrowings Catalan century chapter Classical Latin clitic complement conjugation verbs consonant construction contrast dative declension derived diachronic diphthongization discussion distinction evidence example fact feminine forms French function Gallo-Romance gemination gender grammatical historical Ibero-Romance inflectional Italian dialects Italo-Romance Italy late Latin Lausberg Ledgeway lexemes lexical Loporcaro marked masculine meaning metaphony mid vowels modern morphological N-pattern neuter nominative nouns Occitan occur open syllable original palatalization paradigm participle pattern periphrasis person singular phonetic phonological Portuguese position preposition present subjunctive preterite processes pronouns proparoxytones proto-Romance PYTA roots reflexive refunctionalization Rohlfs Romance languages Romance linguistics Romance varieties Romanian Romansh root-final Sardinian semantic slang southern Spanish speakers stress structure subjunctive suffixes survives synchronic syncope syntactic syntax tense texts third person unmarked unstressed velar verb verlan vowel system vulgar Latin word order