Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Tables

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Maps

pp.：  11 – 12

Editorial Foreword

pp.：  13 – 14

Foreword

pp.：  15 – 16

Acknowledgements

pp.：  17 – 18

Abbreviations, Signs, and Conventions

pp.：  19 – 24

Chapter One The Evolution of Morphology

pp.：  25 – 36

1.1 Setting the Goals

pp.：  25 – 28

1.2 Delimiting Time and Space

pp.：  29 – 36

Chapter Two Productivity

pp.：  37 – 54

2.1 Natural Morphology

pp.：  37 – 40

2.2 The Core of Morphology

pp.：  41 – 44

2.3 Theory of Inflection

pp.：  45 – 54

Chapter Three Measuring Productivity

pp.：  55 – 94

3.1 Dressler’s Way

pp.：  58 – 62

3.2 Productivity Scale

pp.：  63 – 72

3.3 The Criteria

pp.：  73 – 94

3.3.1 Loanwords Integration

pp.：  74 – 81

3.3.2 Conversion

pp.：  82 – 87

3.3.3 Inflection Class Shift

pp.：  88 – 94

Chapter Four Predicting Productivity Changes

pp.：  95 – 120

4.1 Universal, Type-Adequate, and Local Naturalness

pp.：  96 – 104

4.2 What Can We Predict?

pp.：  105 – 120

4.2.1 Naturalness and Productivity

pp.：  109 – 113

4.2.2 Emergence, Increase, Decrease, and Loss

pp.：  114 – 116

4.2.3 Nature and Scope of Productivity

pp.：  117 – 120

Chapter Five Productivity of Noun Inflection in Latin

pp.：  121 – 252

5.1 Taxonomy of Latin Nominal Inflection

pp.：  123 – 131

5.1.1 Early Latin Declension

pp.：  124 – 124

5.1.2 Classical and Post-Classical Latin Declension

pp.：  125 – 130

5.1.3 Late Latin Declension

pp.：  131 – 130

5.1.4 Vulgar Latin Declension

pp.：  131 – 131

5.2 Loanwords in Latin

pp.：  132 – 211

5.2.1 Etruscanisms

pp.：  133 – 135

5.2.2 Graecisms

pp.：  136 – 202

5.2.3 Germanisms

pp.：  203 – 211

5.3 Conversion in Latin

pp.：  212 – 224

5.3.1 Establishing the Corpus

pp.：  212 – 215

5.3.2 Corpus of Conversions in Latin

pp.：  216 – 224

5.4 Class Shift in Latin

pp.：  225 – 252

5.4.1 Establishing the Corpus

pp.：  225 – 225

5.4.2 Corpus of Class Shift in Latin

pp.：  226 – 252

Chapter Six Productivity of Noun Inflection in Old Italian

pp.：  253 – 372

6.1 Taxonomy of Old Italian Nominal Inflection

pp.：  253 – 255

6.2 Loanwords in Old Italian

pp.：  256 – 334

6.2.1 Germanisms

pp.：  256 – 274

6.2.2 Byzantinisms

pp.：  275 – 283

6.2.3 Arabisms

pp.：  284 – 303

6.2.4 Gallicisms

pp.：  304 – 334

6.3 Conversion in Old Italian

pp.：  335 – 353

6.3.1 Establishing the Corpus

pp.：  335 – 337

6.3.2 Corpus of Conversions in Old Italian

pp.：  338 – 353

6.4 Class Shift in Old Italian

pp.：  354 – 372

6.4.1 Establishing the Corpus

pp.：  354 – 356

6.4.2 Corpus of Class Shift in Old Italian

pp.：  357 – 372

Chapter Seven Analysis

pp.：  373 – 438

7.1 Analysis of Noun Inflection Productivity in Latin

pp.：  373 – 406

7.1.1 Analysis of Criterion A

pp.：  373 – 384

7.1.2 Analysis of Criterion B

pp.：  385 – 385

7.1.3 Analysis of Criterion C

pp.：  386 – 391

7.1.4 Analysis of Criterion D1

pp.：  392 – 392

7.1.5 Analysis of Criterion D2

pp.：  393 – 403

7.1.6 A Synchronic and Diachronic Survey

pp.：  404 – 406

7.2 Analysis of Noun Inflection Productivity in Old Italian

pp.：  407 – 433

7.2.1 Analysis of Criterion A

pp.：  408 – 410

7.2.2 Analysis of Criterion B

pp.：  411 – 417

7.2.3 Analysis of Criterion C

pp.：  418 – 424

7.2.4 Analysis of Criterion D1

pp.：  425 – 426

7.2.5 Analysis of Criterion D2

pp.：  427 – 429

7.2.6 Synchronic and Diachronic Surveys

pp.：  430 – 433

7.3 Competing Motivations

pp.：  434 – 438

Chapter Eight Behind the Scenes of Inflection

pp.：  439 – 464

8.1 The Naturalness of Productive Formatives

pp.：  439 – 445

8.2 How Many Genders?

pp.：  446 – 453

8.3 Poor or Rich?

pp.：  454 – 459

8.4 Conclusion: Productivity Driving the Shift

pp.：  460 – 464

Appendix Chronology of Latin authors and Works

pp.：  465 – 470

Editions of Primary Sources

pp.：  471 – 494

References

pp.：  495 – 516

Subject Index

pp.：  517 – 520

Index of Languages

pp.：  521 – 521

Index of Lexemes

pp.：  522 – 552