Edited by Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden
Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
- Examines comparative data from a wide variety of standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance varieties
- Brings together diverse theoretical approaches, including traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics
- Explores a range of grammatical phenomena across three major domains: sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure
Hardback
Published: 13 May 2020
496 Pages
234x153mm
ISBN: 9780198840176
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoprovençal, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
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
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 Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance, Delia Bentley
10: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal, Béatrice Rea
11: Présent inclusif and passé compose à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan, Ingmar Söhrman
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