In this paper, we deal with some important differences between Romance verb particle
constructions and Germanic ones. Despite claims to the contrary (Iacobini & Masini …

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change Page 1 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Natalya I.
Stolova JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change …

Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking,
they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with …

The categoric loss of verb particles in the history of French remains problematic in
diachronic accounts of Medieval French syntax and Romance syntax in general. There is …

This article provides a comprehensive overview of prefixation in Romance languages
putting in relation the differences between standard and non-standard varieties in the …

In this chapter, I describe the evolution from Latin to French, focusing on a specific
typological change: that from a Satellite-framed to a Verb-framed language, in the (much …

The goal of this article is to show that adjectival resultative secondary predication was a
syntactic possibility in Medieval French. From a diachronic point of view, the presence of this …

This paper presents a novel study of resultative secondary predication constructions in Old
and early Middle French (12th-15th centuries). We show that the Old French period saw the …

" The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different
granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to …

This paper introduces new data showing that Medieval French patterns like a satellite-
framed language in that directed motion events can be expressed via a manner verb and a …