NEW APPROACHES TO OLD PROBLEMS ISSUES IN ROMANCE HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- PART I GENERAL PROBLEMS -- BEYOND PARAMETERS* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Different kinds of newness -- 2. The need for innovation in theoretical contexts -- 3. A change to the immanent perspective -- 4. Extended data: Written language -- 5. Typology of subject expression -- 6. Northern Italian typology -- 7. Development -- 8. Subject clitics and null-subject status -- 9. Clitic grammaticalization cline -- 10. Transcending parameters -- 11. 'Transition phases' in an immanent perspective -- 12. Social interaction modeling and linguistic change -- 13. Modeling historical change -- REFERENCES -- A NEW VIEW OF GRAMMATICALIZATION TO REPLACE THE 'CYCLE' IN HISTORICAL ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- 0. Introduction: The synthetic/analytic 'cycle' -- 1. A new view of grammaticalization to replace the cycle -- 2. Theoretical discussion -- REFERENCES -- PART II PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY -- ROMANCE LENITION -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The problem -- 2. Structure-based accounts -- 3. Below La Spezia - Rimini -- 4. Considering rafforzamento sintattico -- 5. Phases in the development -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- AN OT APPROACH TO ATONIC VOWEL LOSS PATTERNS IN OLD FRENCH AND OLD SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries: fundamentals of the OT approach employed -- 2. Parallel developments in Old French and Old Spanish: Non-low Vs -- 3. Divergent developments in Old French and Old Spanish: Pretonic andposttonic V loss -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ANALOGY AND OPTIMALITY THEORY IN A MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE OF SOUTHWEST SPANISH -- 0. Introduction -- 2. OT Analysis -- 3. Morphological change -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

LINKING SOCIAL CHANGE AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE KOINEIZATION IN EARLY CASTILE -- REFERENCES -- PART III SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- SYNTACTIC DIFFUSION IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENTS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Gradual shifts -- 2. Syntactic diffusion -- 3. The role of intermediate, functionally-ambiguous constructions -- REFERENCES -- THE ROLE OF FEATURES IN HISTORICAL CHANGE* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Methodology -- 2. The domains of aspect in Old French -- 3. Aspect and prefixation in Modern French -- 4. On the relationship between prefixation and grammatical aspect -- 5. On prefixes and change -- REFERENCES -- SPANISH OBJECT AGREEMENT MARKERS AND THE TYPOLOGY OF OBJECT AGREEMENT MORPHOLOGY* -- 0. Introduction: The linguistic problem -- 1. The data and universals -- 2. Explanations for the form of verbal inflections -- 3. A revised explanation -- 4. A micro-analysis of historical change -- REFERENCES -- EVOLVING TOBLER-MUSSAFIA EFFECTS IN THE PLACEMENT OF FRENCH CLITICS* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Description and analysis of the diachronic stages -- 2. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- GRAMMATICALIZATION CHAINS AND FRENCH COMPLEX-INVERSION* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Various analyses of C-I -- 2. A brief history of complex-inversion -- 3. Convergence and divergence in the pronoun system -- 4. Grammaticalization and the postverbal subject pronouns -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A MINIMALIST PERSPECTIVE ON WACKERNAGEL'S LAW -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Earlier approaches -- 2. New approach -- 3. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INFINITIVE SUBORDINATORS AND VERB RESTRUCTURING IN FRENCH* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The alternation à/de/Ø in C -- 2. The alternation à/Ø and bare infinitives -- 3. Clause union revisited -- 4. Diachronic variation of sub ordinators -- 5. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Subject Index.