John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980. — 362 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 18).
The papers in this volume deal with the languages of ancient Italy and the Romance dialects that grew from them. The arrangement of papers in the volume is topical, starting with ancient Italy and moving upward in time and outward in space through general Romance to Italian, French and Provençal, Spanish, Romanian and Sardinian.
The future perfect in oscan-umbrian - Madison S. Beeler
Latin verbs in -uō, -uere - Oswald Szemerényi
The phonology of -nd- and the latin gerundive - James W. Poultney
The role of */1/ in Rhotacism - Clifford S. Leonard
The impact of vowel syncope in latin - Henry M. Hoenigswald
Latin vs. neo-latin: clues to contrasting structure - Gordon M. Messing
A case of paradigmatic continuity in italic and romance - Eric P. Hamp
A proposal for the classification of the romance languages - Giuseppe Francescato
Per una classificazione “standardologica” delle lingue romanze - Žarko Muljačić
A note on prefixed inflection in romance - James J. Champion
Fortschritt und rückschritt in der etymologischen forschung - Harri Meier
The source of italian tardi - J. Peter Maher
the origin of the italian plural formative — e - Helmut Lüdtke
Nota sui rappresentanti di latino — di- nei dialetti toscani - Tristano Bolelli
On the voicing of latin intervocalic /p, t, k/ in italian - Herbert J. Izzo
The structure of italian newspaper headlines - Robert A. Hall
Rätoromanisch: linguach romantsch tranter Taliá e francés - Gerhard Rohlfs
The topos of the decoy: Apropos of old provençal cadorn - Henry Kahane and Renée Kahane
Occitan verbal substantives in — dor, -doira - Raleigh Morgan
Etymologies doubles dans le FEW - Kurt Baldinger
Prefixed conjugation in parosian french - William J. Ashby
Liaison, nasalization and the “cursus” in french phonology - Jurgen Klausenburger
Peut-on prévoir les modifications à venir d’un système phonologique ? - André Martinet
Curiosa from a lexicon of louisiana french - James Redfern
Languages of ancient spain and portugal - James M. Anderson
Hispanica et latina - Antonio Tovar
Anekdotisches zur spanischen sprachgeschicjte im Siglode oro - Harald Weinrich
Spanish and portugese cattle terms in amerindian languages - Lawrence B. Kiddle
Sur la dissimilation consonantique en roumain - Alexandru Rosetti
The romanian numerical system - Charles M. Carlton
“Sardica ut in Oppidis” - Eugenio Coseriu
Franz von Miklosich and the rise of romance linguistics - Yakov Malkiel