Randall Gess

List of John Benjamins publications in which Randall Gess is involved.

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Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents

Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg

This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.

Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives

Edited by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga

This volume contains 17 studies on historical Romance linguistics within a variety of current theoretical frameworks; it includes studies on phonology, morphology and syntax, focusing solely or comparatively on all five ‘major’ Romance languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.

Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004

Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin

The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.

Herschensohn, Julia and Randall Gess 2019 Transfer cost and the developmental path to target object clitic prosody Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 849–853 | Commentary

Boutin, Béatrice Akissi, Randall Gess and Gabriel Marie Guèye 2012 Chapter 3. French in Senegal after three centuries: A phonological study of Wolof speakers’ French Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 45–71 | Article

Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg 2012 Chapter 1. Introduction to phonological variation in French: Illustrations from three continents Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Introduction

Lyche, Chantal, Trudel Meisenburg and Randall Gess 2012 Chapter 14. Phonological variation in French: Unity and diversity across continents Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 369–387 | Article

Gess, Randall 2006 The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Article

Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga 2006 Foreword Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Foreword

Gess, Randall 2001 Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 145–156 | Article

Gess, Randall and Julia Herschensohn 2001 Shifting the DP Parameter: A study of Anglophone French L2ers Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Camps, Joaquim and Caroline R. Wiltshire (eds.), pp. 105–120 | Article

Gess, Randall 1999 Positional Faithfulness versus Cue Preservation: The case of nasal sequence resolution in Gallo-Romance Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998, Authier, Jean-Marc, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article

Gess, Randall 1999 Rethinking the Dating of Old French Syllable-Final Consonant Loss Diachronica 16:2, pp. 261–296 | Article

SUMMARY Based on the assumption that the loss of the Old French word-internal syllable-final consonants (/S/ ( = [s] and [z]), /N/ ( = all nasal consonants), forward a unified analysis of these changes according to which they should have taken place within two or three centuries, rather than the… read more

Gess, Randall 1998 Alignment and sonority in the syllable structure of Late Latin and Gallo-Romance Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVI), Mexico City, 28–30 March, 1996, Lema, José and Esthela Treviño (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Article