Analyticity and Syntheticity: A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages

agglutination aller allomorphic analysis analytic language analytic/synthetic analyticity and syntheticity and/or argued Ashby auxiliary cantare habeo changes chapter classification cohesion complex concepts construction coreferential criteria criterion diachronic discussion drift elements EMPH emphasizers examples expression factors Fleischman free form frequency function future grammatical Greenberg guages habere INFINITIVE inflectional instance j'ai Lambrecht langues Latin lexemes lexical linguistic linguistique M. B. Harris meaning Middle French MidFr modern ModFr morphemes morphological typology morphosyntactic negation cycle negative particle nominal noun object obligatory Occitan occur P/N markers P/N marking Palenquero paradigm passum pattern periphrastic phemes phonetic phonological synthesis postverbal negation predicate negation preverbal relatively Romance languages Romansh Sapir's Schlegel segments semantic relevance sentence separability Spanish speakers speech units Sprachen stem stress structure subject clitics subject pronouns syntactic syntax synthetic languages syntheticity and analyticity tense thetic tion transparency vais verb phrase verbal word order