Historical romance linguistics : retrospective and perspectives

1. Foreword (by Gess, Randall) 2. Introduction: From Romance Philology to (Historical) Romance Linguistics? (by Klausenburger, Jurgen) 3. Part I: Phonology 4. Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing (by Bradley, Travis G.) 5. The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French (by Gess, Randall) 6. Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates (by Jacobs, Haike) 7. Rhythm and Prosodic Change (by Mazzola, Michael L.) 8. Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change (by Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y.) 9. On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French: A Sociolinguistic Perspective (by Morin, Yves-Charles) 10. Is the 'Word' Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan (by Walker, Douglas C.) 11. Part II: Morphology 12. Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century: The Speech of the Future Louis XIIIth (by Hirschbuhler, Paul) 13. The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian (by Repetti, Lori) 14. On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme (by Winters, Margaret E.) 15. German Influence in Romanian (by Zwanenburg, Wiecher) 16. Part III: Syntax 17. Il Etait une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French (by Arteaga, Deborah) 18. 'Synthetic' vs. 'Analytic' in Romance: The Importance of Varieties (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.) 19. Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology (by Bullock, Barbara E.) 20. Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese (by Martins, Ana Maria) 21. Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A GrammaticalizationAnalysis (by Russi, Cinzia) 22. From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of la inFranco-American French (by Smith, Jane S.) 23. General Index