Maiden M. et al. (ed.) The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures

Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 888 р. — (Cambridge History of the Romance Languages)Volume 2This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume I is organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence (structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation (structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels. The result is a rich structural history which marries together data and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution of the Romance languages.Romance linguistics and historical linguistics. Reflections on synchrony and diachrony
Syllable, segment and prosody
Phonological processes
Morphophonological persistence
Morphophonological innovation
Change and continuity in form-function relationships
Morphosyntactic persistence from Latin into Romance
Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change in Latin and Romance
Pragmatic and discourse changes from Latin to Romance
Word formation
Lexical stability
Lexical change
Latin and the structure of written Romance
Slangs and jargons