Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This marvelous new book [...] looks at language change in Europe. [...] Romance languages are so interesting because their common ancestor, Latin, left such a varied and complicated legacy. This books delves into that legacy [...].
*Nathan Bierman, in the Chicago Tribune, September 2006.*