The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 1, Structures

Martin Maiden is Professor of Romance Languages and Director of the Research Centre for Romance Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His recent publications include A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian, Second Edition (with Cecilia Robustelli, 2007). John Charles Smith is a Lecturer in French Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has published widely on agreement, refunctionalization, deixis, and the evolution of case and pronoun systems, with particular reference to Romance. Adam Ledgeway is Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. His recent publications include Grammatica diacronica del dialetto napoletano (2009).

'… an authoritative overview of some of the most relevant topics in Romance historical and comparative linguistics … this is a reference work that all linguists researching any of the Romance languages should take into consideration, from phonologists to sociolinguists to syntacticians.' Miquel Simonet, Journal of Sociolinguistics

• 1. Romance linguistics and historical linguistics. Reflections on synchrony and diachrony Rosanna Sornicola; 2. Syllable, segment and prosody Michele Loporcaro; 3. Phonological processes Michele Loporcaro; 4. Morphophonological persistence Martin Maiden; 5. Morphophonological innovation Martin Maiden; 6. Change and continuity in form-function relationships John Charles Smith; 7. Morphosyntactic persistence from Latin into Romance Giampaolo Salvi; 8. Syntactic and morphosyntactic typology and change in Latin and Romance Adam Ledgeway; 9. Pragmatic and discourse changes from Latin to Romance Maria Manoliu; 10. Word formation Brigitte Bauer; 11. Lexical stability Arnulf Stefenelli; 12. Lexical change Steven Dworkin; 13. Latin and the structure of written Romance Christopher Pountain; 14. Slangs and jargons John Trumper.