The Cambridge handbook of Romance linguistics

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by  Martin Maiden (editor), Adam Ledgeway (editor)

The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics
TheRomancelanguagesanddialectsconstituteatreasuretroveoflinguistic
data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance lan-
guages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoret-
ical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. Written
byateamofworld-renownedscholars,thisHandbookexploreswhatwecan
learnaboutlinguisticsfromthestudyofRomancelanguages,andhowthe
bodyofcomparativeandhistoricaldatatakenfromthemcanbeappliedto
linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic
variationexhibitedbytheRomancefamilyoflanguagesofakindunparal-
leled for any other Western languages. Asking what Romance languages
can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists
interestedinwhataknowledgeoftheRomanceevidencecancontributeto
linguistictheory.
adam ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Languages at the
UniversityofCambridge.RecentpublicationsincludeTheCambridgeHistory
of the Romance Languages. Vols 1–2 (2011–13), The Cambridge Handbook of
Historical Syntax (2017) and The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
(co-editedwithMaiden,2016).
martin maiden is Professorof theRomanceLanguagesat theUniversity
of Oxford. Recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Romance
Languages, Vols 1–2 (2011–13) and The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
(co-editedwithLedgeway,2016).
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Handbook of Romance
Linguistics
Edited by
Adam Ledgeway
University ofCambridge
Martin Maiden
University ofOxford
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Figures
4.1 Distributionoflanguagesaccordingtothenumberof
contrastiveexponentsintheparadigmsofverbs(y-axis)
andsubjectclitics(x-axis) page157
4.2 Distributionofpatternspernumberofgaps:diffusionof
dialectsinthesamplevsprobability 158
4.3 Presenceof1sg and2sg cliticsintheASItdataset 159
4.4 Presenceof1sg and2sg cliticsinfourlinguisticareas
(northernItalo-Romance) 159
4.5 Numberofcliticsystemswithgapsand/orsyncreticitems
inManziniandSavoia’s(2005)dataset 160
4.6 Numberofnon-syncreticandnon-nullexponentsperperson 160
4.7 Auxiliaryformsbypersonwithunergativeverbsinour
sample(76dialects,36auxiliationpatterns) 170
4.8 Auxiliaryformsbypersonwithunaccusativeverbs
(76dialects,40auxiliationpatterns) 171
4.9 DiffusionofEforms(bypercentage):unergativesvs
unaccusatives.Sample:76dialects 171
4.10 DiffusionofthefreealternationbetweenEandHforms
(bypercentage):unergativesvsunaccusatives.Sample:
76dialects 171
11.1 ConceptualizationoftheLexicalHypothesis 349
28.1 ThomasonandKaufman’s(1988)borrowingscale 867
30.1 ThefamilytreemodelofRomance(Version1) 909
30.2 ThefamilytreemodelofRomance(Version2) 909
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