Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony
A View from Romance
Edited by Adam Ledgeway, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent
Author Information
Adam Ledgeway, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge,John Charles Smith, Emeritus Fellow, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford,Nigel Vincent, Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics, The University of Manchester
Adam Ledgeway is Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest. His publications include From Latin to Romance: Morphosyntactic Typology and Change (OUP, 2012; paperback 2015), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013), The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (OUP, 2016), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax (CUP, 2017), and Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces (Benjamins, 2019). He is also co-editor of the Journal of Linguistics.
John Charles Smith is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford (where he was Official Fellow and Tutor in French Linguistics) and Deputy Director Emeritus of the University of Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He has also held posts at the universities of Surrey, Bath, and Manchester, as well as visiting appointments in Limoges, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, and Philadelphia, and was created Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques by the French government for services to the French language and French culture. He has published on a range of linguistic topics, and co-edited several volumes, including The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (CUP, 2011/2013) and The Boundaries of Pure Morphology (OUP, 2013).
Nigel Vincent is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at The University of Manchester, where he was Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology from 1987 to 2011. He previously held posts at the Universities of London (Birkbeck College), Lancaster, Hull, and Cambridge, as well as visiting appointments in Copenhagen, Pavia, and Rome, and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academia Europaea. His recent publications include, as co-editor and contributor, Diachrony and Dialects (OUP, 2014) and Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change? (CUP, 2016).
Contributors:
Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University
Xavier Bach, University of Oxford
Delia Bentley, The University of Manchester
Michela Cennamo, University of Naples Federico II
Silvio Cruschina, University of Helsinki
Adina Dragomirescu, 'Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Tom Finbow, University of São Paulo
Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge
Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich
Alexandru Nicolae, 'Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Paul O'Neill, University of Sheffield
Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, 'Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest
Sandra Paoli, University of Oxford
Mair Parry, University of Bristol
Lori Repetti, Stony Brook University
John Charles Smith, University of Oxford, St Catherine's College
Rosanna Sornicola, University of Naples Federico II
Pavel Štichauer, Charles University Prague
Oana Uţă Bărbulescu, University of Oxford
Nigel Vincent, The University of Manchester
Sam Wolfe, University of Oxford
Max W. Wheeler, University of Sussex
Rodica Zafiu, 'Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and University of Bucharest