New Approaches to Old Problems

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Dworkin, Steven N.); 3. Part I. General Problems; 4. Beyond Parameters (by Wanner, Dieter); 5. A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace the 'Cycle' in Historical Romance Linguistics (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 6. Part II. Phonology and Morphology; 7. Romance Lenition (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 8. An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old Spanish (by Hartkemeyer, Dale); 9. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish (by Martinez, Glenn A.); 10. Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change: Koineization in Early Castile (by Tuten, Donald N.); 11. Part III. Syntax and Semantics; 12. Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival Complements (by Davies, Mark); 13. The Role of Features in Historical Change (by Dufresne, Monique); 14. Spanish Object Agreement Markers and the Typology of Object Agreement Morphology (by Enrique-Arias, Andres); 15. Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in the Placements of French Clitics (by Hirschbuhler, Paul); 16. Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion (by Johnson, Ken); 17. A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel's Law (by Mallen, Enrique); 18. Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French (by Martineau, France); 19. Subject Index