Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. General Problems
6. Beyond Parameters 3
7. A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the ‘Cycle’ in Historical Romance Linguistics 33
8. Part II. Phonology and Morphology
9. Romance Lenition 47
10. An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old Spanish 65
11. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish 85
12. Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile 97
13. Part III. Syntax and Semantics
14. Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival Complements 109
15. The Role of Features in Historical Change 129
16. Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement Morphology 149
17. Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placements of French Clitics 165
18. Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion 183
19. A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel’s Law 199
20. Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French 217
21. Subject Index 233