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This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects.

Note biographique

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 des matières

• Introduction


• Part I: The Status of Periphrasis and Inflexion


• 1: Adam Ledgeway and Nigel Vincent: Periphrasis and inflexion: Lessons from Romance


• 2: John Charles Smith: The boundaries of inflexion and periphrasis


• Part II: Periphrasis


• 3: Nigel Vincent and Max W. Wheeler: Layering and divergence in Romance periphrases


• 4: Sandra Paoli and Sam Wolfe: The GO-future and GO-past periphrases in Gallo-Romance: A comparative investigation


• 5: Mair Parry: The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance: Grammaticalization 'again'!


• 6: Silvio Cruschina: Periphrastic morphomes in Italo-Romance


• Part III: Auxiliation


• 7: Xavier Bach and Pavel Štichauer: Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance and inflexional classes


• 8: Michele Loporcaro: The morphological nature of person-driven auxiliation: Evidence from shape conditions


• Part IV: Analysis vs Synthesis


• 9: Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae, and Rodica Zafiu: The loss of analyticity in the history of Romanian verbal morphology


• 10: Gabriela Pan¿ Dindelegan and Oana U¿¿ B¿rbulescu: The relationship between inflexional and analytic marking of obliques in Romanian


• 11: Rosanna Sornicola: A diachronic perspective on polymorphism, overabundance, and polyfunctionalism


• Part V: Inflexion and its Interfaces


• 12: Delia Bentley and Michela Cennamo: Thematic and lexico-aspectual constraints on V-S agreement: Evidence from Northern Italo-Romance


• 13: Mark Aronoff and Lori Repetti: Conditioned epenthesis in Romance


• 14: Paul O'Neill and Tom Finbow: Koineization and language contact: The social causes of morphological change in and with Portuguese


• References


• Index

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