Essays in Hispanic Linguistics Dedicated to Paul M. Lloyd

Essays in Hispanic Linguistics Dedicated to M. Lloyd. Eds. Robert J. Blake, Diana L. Ransom and Roger Wright. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 1999. x+258 pages. This volume honors Lloyd on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Lloyd himself is the topic of the first article, Paul M. Lloyd: A Scholarly Portrait and Bibliography, by Steven Dworkin. It includes a brief professional Biography, a useful annotated Bibliography of the honorand's publications, and a listing of book reviews written by him. The other 15 articles, contributed by longtime colleagues and former students, are arranged in apparently random order. All develop topics that have been of interest to Lloyd, including lexical change (5 articles), morphology (2), phonology (3), syntax (2), historical linguistic theory (1), dialectology and sociolinguistics (1), and the history of Hispanic linguistics (2). Anthony Esposito (Italian niente `to be stiff or numb with cold,' aterecerse> `to become stiff or numb with cold,' and Sp. derretirse/Port. derreterse > `to melt, thaw') argues convincingly for the related development of these terms from a common etymon DERIGERE, which suffers prefixation, change of prefix, change of verb class, reassignment of phonemes, and metathesis. Carmen Silva-Corvalan (Ahora: From temporal to discourse deixis) uses data on contemporary Chilean Spanish to examine the extension of ahora from a temporal to a discourse deictic marking (re)introduction of topics, conditions, and qualifications. Such extension appears to be a prototypical case of subjectifying grammaticalization, but the claim needs to be confirmed with historical evidence. Birte Stengaard (Subject-Role and the Re-lexicalization of Old Spanish and Old Portuguese aver) analyzes the spread of tener/ter into domains formerly associated with haber/aver, arguing that this change is best understood as a case of relexicalization in which the subject-roles and meanings of haber were reassigned to tener. Ray Harris-Northall (Morphological Shift in Old Spanish: The Paradigmatic Relationship between -ecer and -ir verbs) points out that the medieval tendency to transfer -ir verbs to the -ecer class was closely related to other verbal processes, including the disappearance of the -udo participle. He argues that few additions to the -ecer class were made after the 13' century, when the increase in raising of stem-vowels in -ir class verbs halted their transfer. Joel Rini (The Rise and Fall of Old Spanish 'y'all': vos todos vs. vos otros) establishes the initial preference for vos todos over vos otros in Alfonsine texts, and then argues that vos otros displaces vos todos due to the greater morphological fit between novel vosotros and existent vuestro. Diana Ranson (Variation in Voicing in Spanish Syncopated Forms) analyzes 149 words showing variable results with regard to voicing of consonants brought into contact through syncope

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