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This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoprovençal, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

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Author:   Sam Wolfe (Associate Professor of French Linguistics, Associate Professor of French Linguistics, University of Oxford) ,  Martin Maiden (Professor of the Romance Languages, Professor of the Romance Languages, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   41
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780198840176

ISBN 10:   0198840179
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   13 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden: Introduction Part I: Sentence structure 2: Sam Wolfe: Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery 3: Christine Meklenborg: Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective 4: Adam Ledgeway: Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system 5: Franck Floricic: Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que 6: Sandra Paoli and Xavier Bach: Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan 7: Zack Bekowies and Mairi McLaughlin: The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective Part II: The verb complex 8: Bridget Drinka: Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance 9: Delia Bentley: Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance 10: Béatrice Rea: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal 11: Ingmar Söhrman: Présent inclusif and passé compose à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan 12: Damien Mooney: Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar 13: Mari C. Jones: Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing Part III: Word structure 14: Clive Sneddon: On the origins of French and Occitan 15: Brigitte L. M. Bauer: Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French 16: Nigel Vincent: Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance 17: Louise Esher: Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties 18: Martin Maiden: The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony References Index

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Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, having previously held teaching positions at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. The principal focus of his current research is a monograph on syntactic change in French, and he has ongoing projects on Venetian and on contact-induced changes in Romance languages. His first book, Verb Second in Medieval Romance, was published by OUP in 2019, and he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Woods, of Rethinking Verb Second (OUP 2020). Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of Academia Europaea, and In 2014 he was appointed 'Commander' in the 'National Order for Faithful Service' of the Republic of Romania for services to knowledge of the Romanian language in Britain. His many publications include The Romance Verb: Morphomic Structure and Diachrony (OUP 2018), and, as co-editor with Adam Ledgeway, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP 2016). He is currently preparing, in collaboration with colleagues in Romania, the forthcoming OUP volume The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology.

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