Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change yet as the volume demonstrates non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure the verb complex and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich drawing on standard and non-standard data from French Occitan Francoprovençal Picard Wallon and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted which span traditional philology sociolinguistics formal morphological<br>and syntactic theory semantics and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory sociolinguistics and historical linguistics.<br>