Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface vii
3. A note on transcription viii
4. Table of contents ix
5. I. Introduction
6. 1. Morphology in linguistic structure 1
7. II. Proto-romance inflection
8. 2. Morphological and syntactic criteria 7
9. 3. From-classes: substantives and pronouns 15
10. 4. From-classes: verbs 47
11. 5. From-classes: indeclinables 101
12. III. Proto-romance derivation
13. 6. Types of derivation 108
14. 7. Suffixation 112
15. 8. Prefixation 151
16. 9. Compounding 154
17. IV. From latin to proto-romance
18. 10. Inflectional categories 164
19. 11. Derivational categories 186
20. V. Early developments in romance
21. 12. Inflectional categories and morphophonemics 189
22. 13. Inflectional classes 195
23. 14. Derivational elements 204
24. VI. Appendices
25. 1. Further comparative tables 208
26. Abbreviations 286
27. 2. List of proto-romance words 287
28. References 293
29. Index of topics 303