Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

Sam Wolfe is Associate Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College, having previously held teaching positions at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. The principal focus of his current research is a monograph on syntactic change in French, and he has ongoing projects on Venetian and on contact-induced changes in Romance languages. His first book, Verb Second in Medieval Romance, was published by OUP in 2019, and he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Woods, of Rethinking Verb Second (OUP 2020). Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of Academia Europaea, and In 2014 he was appointed 'Commander' in the 'National Order for Faithful Service' of the Republic of Romania for services to knowledge of the Romanian language in Britain. His many publications include The Romance Verb: Morphomic Structure and Diachrony (OUP 2018), and, as co-editor with Adam Ledgeway, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP 2016). He is currently preparing, in collaboration with colleagues in Romania, the forthcoming OUP volume The Oxford History of Romanian Morphology.

• 1: Sam Wolfe and Martin Maiden: Introduction Part I: Sentence structure 2: Sam Wolfe: Old Gallo-Romance, periodization, and the left periphery 3: Christine Meklenborg: Resumptive structures in a Gallo-Romance perspective 4: Adam Ledgeway: Variation in the Gallo-Romance left periphery: V2, complementizers, and the Gascon enunciative system 5: Franck Floricic: Dialectological evidence for a predicate focus analysis of Gascon que 6: Sandra Paoli and Xavier Bach: Postverbal negators in Gallo-Romance: The view from Old Occitan 7: Zack Bekowies and Mairi McLaughlin: The loss of clitic climbing in French: A Gallo-Romance perspective Part II: The verb complex 8: Bridget Drinka: Motivating the North-South continuum: Evidence from the perfects of Gallo-Romance 9: Delia Bentley: Active-middle alignment and the aoristic drift: The North-South divide in the Romània on evidence from northern Gallo-Romance 10: Béatrice Rea: A comparative analysis of French auxiliation, with new evidence from Montréal 11: Ingmar Söhrman: Présent inclusif and passé compose à valeur de présent accompli in modern French and Occitan 12: Damien Mooney: Future temporal reference in French and Gascon: Aller / anar + infinitive periphrasis and structural transfer in the bilingual grammar 13: Mari C. Jones: Mainland and insular Norman: Pronoun sharing and pronoun sparing Part III: Word structure 14: Clive Sneddon: On the origins of French and Occitan 15: Brigitte L. M. Bauer: Appositive compounds in dialectal and sociolinguistic varieties of French 16: Nigel Vincent: Complex versus compound prepositions: Evidence from Gallo-Romance 17: Louise Esher: Syncretism and metamorphomes in northern Occitan (Lemosin) varieties 18: Martin Maiden: The verbs 'rain' and 'snow' in Gallo-Romance, and other morphological mismatches in diachrony References Index