Based on a workshop at the ninth International Conference on Historical Linguistics at Rutgers University, Aug. 14-18, 1989. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Audire, legere, vulgo: an attempt to define public use and comprehensibility of Carolingian hagiography / Katrien Heene -- Rhabanus Maurus and the vernacular languages / Michel Banniard -- The combination of glosses in the Codice Emilianense 60 (Glosas Emilianenses) / Birte Stengaard -- how was Leonese Vulgar Latin read? / Carmen Pensado -- Spelling lapses in early Medieval Latin documents and the reconstruction of primitive Romance phonology / Thomas J. Walsh -- Syntactic aspects of Latinate texts of the early Middle Ages / Robert Blake -- Latin or Romance? Graphemic variation and scripto-linguistic change in medieval Spain / Antonio Emiliano -- Latin vs Romance in the Middle Ages: Dante's De vulgari eloquentia revisited / Marcel Danesi. Introduction: Latin and Romance, a thousand years of incertitude / Roger Wright -- On the names of languages (and other things) / Paul M. Lloyd -- Language change and metalinguistic change: Latin to Romance and other cases / Tore Janson -- Spoken and written Latin in the last centuries of the Roman Empire. A contribution to the linguistic history of the western provinces / Jozsef Herman -- Latin and Romance: fragmentation or restructuring? / Alberto Varvaro -- Phonology, phonetics, and orthography in late Latin and Romance: the evidence for early intervocalic sonorization / Thomas D. Cravens -- Evidence for SVO in Latin? / Harm Pinkster -- The collapse and replacement of verbal inflection in late Latin/early Romance: how would one know? / John N. Green -- The conceptual distinction between Latin and Romance: invention or evolution? / Roger Wright -- The consciousness of a linguistic dichotomy (Latin-Romance) in Carolingian Gaul: the contradictions of the sources and of their interpretation / Marc Van Uytfanghe -- Latin and Romance: an historian's perspective / Rosamond McKitterick.
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