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 Variantor 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