Thomas D. Cravens

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas D. Cravens is involved.

Titles

Variation and Reconstruction

Edited by Thomas D. Cravens

The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 268] 2006. viii, 223 pp.

Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change

Thomas D. Cravens

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Cravens, Thomas D. 2006 Microvariability in time and space: Reconstructing the past from the present Variation and Reconstruction, Cravens, Thomas D. (ed.), pp. 17–36 | Article

Cravens, Thomas D. 2000 Romance Lenition New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance historical linguistics, Dworkin, Steven N. and Dieter Wanner (eds.), pp. 47–64 | Chapter

Cravens, Thomas D. and Luciano Giannelli 1995 Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 105–116 | Article

Cravens, Thomas D. 1987 The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article

Cravens, Thomas D. 1982 The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’ Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 38–43 | Article

Wanner, Dieter and Thomas D. Cravens 1980 Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 339–347 | Article