New Book: Historical Linguistics: Dworkin/Wanner

[Paul Peranteau]

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John Benjamins Publishing announces this new work in Historical Linguistics:

New Approaches to Old Problems.
Issues in Romance historical linguistics.
Steven D. DWORKIN (University of Michigan) and Dieter WANNER (The Ohio 
State University) (eds.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 210
US & Canada: 1 58811 021 4 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3717 4 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover)

This volume contains revised versions of thirteen of the papers presented
at the parasession, "New Solutions to Old Problems: Issues in Romance
Historical Linguistics", held as part of the 29th Linguistic Symposium on
the Romance Languages (1999). These studies examine specific problems in
Romance historical linguistics within the framework of new analytical
approaches, many of which represent extensions into the diachronic realm
of methodologies and theories originally formulated to explain aspects of
synchronic phonology and syntax. Insights afforded by Principles and
Parameters, the Minimalist Program, Optimality Theory, grammaticalization
theory, and sociohistorical linguistics are used to elucidate such
long-standing issues in traditional historical grammar as diphthongization
in Hispano-Romance, syncope of intertonic vowels in Hispano- and
Gallo-Romane, Romance lenition, the role of analogy in morphological
change, word order, infinitival constructions, and the collocation of
clitic object pronouns in Old French and Old Spanish.

Contributions by: Steven N. Dworkin; Dieter Wanner; Jurgen Klausenburger;
Thomas D. Cravens; Dale Hartkemeyer; Glenn A. Martínez; Donald N. Tuten;
Mark Davies; Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay; Andrés
Enrique-Arias; Paul Hirschbühler & Marie Labelle; Ken Johnson; Enrique
Mallén; France Martineau & Virginia Motapanyane.


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