Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony

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.

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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.

The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Introduction, Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent
Part I: The Status of Periphrasis and Inflexion
1:Periphrasis and inflexion: Lessons from Romance, Adam Ledgeway and Nigel Vincent
2:The boundaries of inflexion and periphrasis, John Charles Smith
Part II: Periphrasis
3:Layering and divergence in Romance periphrases, Nigel Vincent and Max W. Wheeler
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Introduction, Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent
Part I: The Status of Periphrasis and Inflexion
1:Periphrasis and inflexion: Lessons from Romance, Adam Ledgeway and Nigel Vincent
2:The boundaries of inflexion and periphrasis, John Charles Smith
Part II: Periphrasis
3:Layering and divergence in Romance periphrases, Nigel Vincent and Max W. Wheeler
4:The GO-future and GO-past periphrases in Gallo-Romance: A comparative investigation, Sandra Paoli and Sam Wolfe
5:The TORNARE-periphrasis in Italo-Romance: Grammaticalization 'again'!, Mair Parry
6:Periphrastic morphomes in Italo-Romance, Silvio Cruschina
Part III: Auxiliation
7:Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance and inflexional classes, Xavier Bach and Pavel Štichauer
8:The morphological nature of person-driven auxiliation: Evidence from shape conditions, Michele Loporcaro
Part IV: Analysis vs Synthesis
9:The loss of analyticity in the history of Romanian verbal morphology, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae, and Rodica Zafiu
10:The relationship between inflexional and analytic marking of obliques in Romanian, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan and Oana Uţă Bărbulescu
11:A diachronic perspective on polymorphism, overabundance, and polyfunctionalism, Rosanna Sornicola
Part V: Inflexion and its Interfaces
12:Thematic and lexico-aspectual constraints on V-S agreement: Evidence from Northern Italo-Romance, Delia Bentley and Michela Cennamo
13:Conditioned epenthesis in Romance, Mark Aronoff and Lori Repetti
14:Koineization and language contact: The social causes of morphological change in and with Portuguese, Paul O'Neill and Tom Finbow
References
Index
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