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In:New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics
Edited by Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 210] 2000
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 13 November 2000
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Table of contents

Acknowledgementsvii
Introductionix
Part I. General Problems
Beyond Parameters3
A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the ‘Cycle’ in Historical Romance Linguistics33
Part II. Phonology and Morphology
Romance Lenition47
An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old Spanish65
Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish85
Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile97
Part III. Syntax and Semantics
Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival Complements109
The Role of Features in Historical Change129
Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement Morphology149
Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placements of French Clitics165
Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion183
A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel’s Law199
Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French217
Subject Index233
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