Nigel Vincent
Biographic Data
| ID | 416485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Vincent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Vincent |
| SIGNATURE | VINCENT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2494-1652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sites of Contact and Models of Change
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory
Diachrony and Diachronica
The year 2023 marks volume 40 of Diachronica. To mark the occasion, 40 linguists working on different aspects of language change have contributed to "40@40"providing brief vignettes about the history of the field, current questions, where current debates are strongest, and where we're headed. These contributions will be published across the next few issues of the journal. In this first set of reflections, five authors discuss a range of big pictu…
Chapter 13. Parts and particles
Causatives in Latin and Romance
Continuity and change from Latin to Romance
Early and Late Latin
This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in the written record (and in Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they b…
Growing syntax
Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical. In this article we show that this can only be part of the story; for a full account we need to understand the syntactic structures into which grammaticalizing elements fit and how they too develop. To achieve this end we consider in detail the history of definiteness marking…
On Constructing a Theory of Grammatical Change
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale, Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. xvii + 278. The last few decades have seen the growth of a community of linguists who, though diverse in their beliefs and assumptions about other aspects of linguistics, nevertheless share a commitment to the construction as the basic unit of linguistic analysis. In construction grammar (henceforth CxG), as …
Tributes and obituary
Language, geography and history in medieval Italy
I am very flattered and honoured to be invited to give this lecture
The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Linguistic Areas
The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact acro
Geoffrey of Burton
1Christ Church College, Canterbury Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna RobertBartlett OxfordOxford U.P. 2002lxxi + 230£45
Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change
The evolution of c-structure
Within X-bar theory prepositions are standardly taken to constitute one of the core lexical categories along with verbs, nouns, and adjectives definable by the features [±V, ±N]. Synchronically, however they share properties with both lexical and functional categories, while diachronically they are usually the outcome of processes of grammaticalization affecting true lexical categories such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives. The present paper analy…
Fonologia etrusca, fonetica toscana
Studies in the Romance Verb
Marguerite Chapallaz, The pronunciation of Italian
Marguerite Chapallaz, The pronunciation of Italian: a practical introduction. (Pp. xv + 244. Bell & Hyman, London, 1979.) - Luciano Canepari, Italiano standard e pronunce regionali. (Pp. 190. 2 cassettes. CLEUP, Padua, 1980.) - Volume 12 Issue 1
A Note on Natural Classes and the Wichita Consonant System
The Derivation of Italian Cresce
Three queries concerning one thesis concerning phonological representations
The first thesis concerning phonological representations enunciated by Anderson and Jones (henceforth A&J)(1974: 8) is ‘that phonological representations are more highly structured than the standard theory would claim’, where the level of structure with which they are particularly concerned is that of bracketing into syllables. The principles in terms of which this bracketing is assigned are given as (I) (= their (19)): (I) (a) Medial clusters ar…
Raimo Anttila, An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. New York
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On the grammar of inflected non-finite forms (with special reference to Old Neapolitan)
Le vieux napolitain fait partie des langues romanes qui possedent un systeme flexionnel marquant le nombre et la personne aussi bien au niveau des formes verbales apparaissant dans des phrases independantes qu'au niveau des infinitifs. Cette langue est toutefois unique dans la mesure ou ce meme systeme flexionnel s'etend aux formes traditionnellement appelees non-finies, comprenant ainsi le gerondif, le participe passe et le participe present. L'…
Il problema del doppio complementatore nei primi volgari d'Italia
Growing syntax
Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical. In this article we show that this can only be part of the story; for a full account we need to understand the syntactic structures into which grammaticalizing elements fit and how they too develop. To achieve this end we consider in detail the history of definiteness marking…
The evolution of c-structure
Within X-bar theory prepositions are standardly taken to constitute one of the core lexical categories along with verbs, nouns, and adjectives definable by the features [±V, ±N]. Synchronically, however they share properties with both lexical and functional categories, while diachronically they are usually the outcome of processes of grammaticalization affecting true lexical categories such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives. The present paper analy…
On Constructing a Theory of Grammatical Change
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale, Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. xvii + 278. The last few decades have seen the growth of a community of linguists who, though diverse in their beliefs and assumptions about other aspects of linguistics, nevertheless share a commitment to the construction as the basic unit of linguistic analysis. In construction grammar (henceforth CxG), as …
The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Geoffrey of Burton
1Christ Church College, Canterbury Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna RobertBartlett OxfordOxford U.P. 2002lxxi + 230£45
Three queries concerning one thesis concerning phonological representations
The first thesis concerning phonological representations enunciated by Anderson and Jones (henceforth A&J)(1974: 8) is ‘that phonological representations are more highly structured than the standard theory would claim’, where the level of structure with which they are particularly concerned is that of bracketing into syllables. The principles in terms of which this bracketing is assigned are given as (I) (= their (19)): (I) (a) Medial clusters ar…
Raimo Anttila, An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Three queries concerning one thesis concerning phonological representations
The first thesis concerning phonological representations enunciated by Anderson and Jones (henceforth A&J)(1974: 8) is ‘that phonological representations are more highly structured than the standard theory would claim’, where the level of structure with which they are particularly concerned is that of bracketing into syllables. The principles in terms of which this bracketing is assigned are given as (I) (= their (19)): (I) (a) Medial clusters ar…
The Derivation of Italian Cresce
A Note on Natural Classes and the Wichita Consonant System
Marguerite Chapallaz, The pronunciation of Italian
Marguerite Chapallaz, The pronunciation of Italian: a practical introduction. (Pp. xv + 244. Bell & Hyman, London, 1979.) - Luciano Canepari, Italiano standard e pronunce regionali. (Pp. 190. 2 cassettes. CLEUP, Padua, 1980.) - Volume 12 Issue 1
Studies in the Romance Verb
Fonologia etrusca, fonetica toscana
The evolution of c-structure
Within X-bar theory prepositions are standardly taken to constitute one of the core lexical categories along with verbs, nouns, and adjectives definable by the features [±V, ±N]. Synchronically, however they share properties with both lexical and functional categories, while diachronically they are usually the outcome of processes of grammaticalization affecting true lexical categories such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives. The present paper analy…
Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change
Geoffrey of Burton
1Christ Church College, Canterbury Geoffrey of Burton: Life and Miracles of St Modwenna RobertBartlett OxfordOxford U.P. 2002lxxi + 230£45
Linguistic Areas
The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact acro
The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350
Language, geography and history in medieval Italy
I am very flattered and honoured to be invited to give this lecture
Tributes and obituary
On Constructing a Theory of Grammatical Change
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale, Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. xvii + 278. The last few decades have seen the growth of a community of linguists who, though diverse in their beliefs and assumptions about other aspects of linguistics, nevertheless share a commitment to the construction as the basic unit of linguistic analysis. In construction grammar (henceforth CxG), as …
Causatives in Latin and Romance
Continuity and change from Latin to Romance
Early and Late Latin
This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in the written record (and in Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they b…
Growing syntax
Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical. In this article we show that this can only be part of the story; for a full account we need to understand the syntactic structures into which grammaticalizing elements fit and how they too develop. To achieve this end we consider in detail the history of definiteness marking…
Chapter 13. Parts and particles
Diachrony and Diachronica
The year 2023 marks volume 40 of Diachronica. To mark the occasion, 40 linguists working on different aspects of language change have contributed to "40@40"providing brief vignettes about the history of the field, current questions, where current debates are strongest, and where we're headed. These contributions will be published across the next few issues of the journal. In this first set of reflections, five authors discuss a range of big pictu…
On the grammar of inflected non-finite forms (with special reference to Old Neapolitan)
Le vieux napolitain fait partie des langues romanes qui possedent un systeme flexionnel marquant le nombre et la personne aussi bien au niveau des formes verbales apparaissant dans des phrases independantes qu'au niveau des infinitifs. Cette langue est toutefois unique dans la mesure ou ce meme systeme flexionnel s'etend aux formes traditionnellement appelees non-finies, comprenant ainsi le gerondif, le participe passe et le participe present. L'…
Il problema del doppio complementatore nei primi volgari d'Italia
Sites of Contact and Models of Change
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory
Philosophy (18 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)