Full Description
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.
Contents
1: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden: Introduction
Part I: Sentence structure
2: Sam Wolfe: Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery
3: Christine Meklenborg: Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective
4: Adam Ledgeway: Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system
5: Franck Floricic: Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que
6: Sandra Paoli and Xavier Bach: Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan
7: Zack Bekowies and Mairi McLaughlin: The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective
Part II: The verb complex
8: Bridget Drinka: Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance
9: Delia Bentley: Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance
10: Béatrice Rea: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal
11: Ingmar Söhrman: Présent inclusif and passé compose à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan
12: Damien Mooney: Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar
13: Mari C. Jones: Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing
Part III: Word structure
14: Clive Sneddon: On the origins of French and Occitan
15: Brigitte L. M. Bauer: Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French
16: Nigel Vincent: Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance
17: Louise Esher: Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties
18: Martin Maiden: The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony
References
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