Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Phonology
6. Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing 19
7. The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance French 53
8. Glide Strengthening in French and Spanish and the Formal Representation of Affricates 77
9. Rhythm and Prosodic Change 97
10. Contrast Preservation Theory and Historical Change 111
11. On the Phonetics of Rhymes in Classical and Pre-Classical French 131
12. Is the ‘Word’ Still a Phonological Unit in French? Evidence from Verlan 163
13. Part II: Morphology
14. Proclisis and Enclisis of Object Pronouns at the Turn of the 17th Century 187
15. The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian 209
16. On the Life and (Near) Death of a Morphophoneme 237
17. German Influence in Romanian 253
18. Part III: Syntax
19. Il Était une Fois: Diachronic Development of Expletives, Case, and Agreement from Latin to Modern French 269
20. ‘Synthetic’ vs. ‘Analytic’ in Romance: The Importance of Varieties 287
21. Intra-System Variability and Change in Nominal and Verbal Morphology 305
22. Aspects of Infinitival Constructions in the History of Portuguese 327
23. Morphosyntactic Functions of Italian Reflexive si: A Grammaticalization Analysis 357
24. From Adverb to Discourse Marker and Beyond: The Status of là in Franco-American French 375
25. General Index 389