Research on Old French: The State of the Art

Introduction, Deborah Arteaga .- A Diachronic View of Old French Genitive Constructions, Deborah Arteaga & Julia Herschensohn .- Grammaticalization in Progress in Old French: Indefinite Aarticles, Anne Carlier .- Null Objects in Old French, Bryan Donaldson  .-  Compensatory Lengthening in Historical French: The Role of the Speaker, Randall Gess .-   Perception, Production and Markedness in Sound Change: French Velar Palatalization, Haike Jacobs & Janine Berns .- Evolution and Regrammation in the Mood System: Perspectives from Old, Middle, Renaissance and Modern French, Jan Lindschouw .- Analogy among French Sounds, Michael L. Mazzola .- The Development of the Declension System, Lene Schøsler .- The Diasystem and its Role in Generating Meaning: Diachronic Evidence from Old French, Harald Völker .- Synchronic studies .- Crusaders' Old French, Cyril Aslanov .- The Use of the Future and Conditional in High Medieval Literature, Igor Dreer .- Old French Parataxis: Syntactic Variant or Stylistic Variation? Julie Glikman & Thomas Verjans .- A Derivational Approach to Negative Polarity Item Licensing in Old French, Richard Ingham .- Theoretical  Issues  in  Old  French  Inflectional  Morpho(phono)logy, Jürgen Klausenburger .- Forms and Functions of Reported Discourse in Medieval French, Sophie Marnette .- The Left-periphery in Old French, Eric Mathieu .- Grammatical Meaning and the Old French Subjunctive, Margaret E. Winters

From the reviews:

"The editor aims to provide insight into both diachronic and synchronic linguistics, not only of Old French, but of language in general. All examples are glossed and the relevant characteristics of Old French are clearly explained, in order to direct the book not only at linguists and graduate students who specialize in Old French, but also at linguists who conduct research in historical linguistics in other languages ... . This is a book that will be gratefully used by many scholars and researchers ... ." (Catharina Peersman, The Linguist List, September, 2013)