Sam Wolfe - Publications

Books

2021. Syntactic Change in French. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2021. Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2020. Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Oxford: OUP.
2020. Rethinking Verb Second. R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds). Rethinking Comparative Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018. Verb Second in Medieval Romance. Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

2022. "Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery". Probus, Special Issue 'Cartography of the Romance Languages'.

2021."Word Order Change and Parametric Stability in Middle French". Journal of Historical Syntax 5 (31), Special Issue 'Secrets of Success', 1-44.

2021."Microvariation in the Old Italo-Romance Left Periphery: the case of SI". Revue roumaine de linguistique 66 (2).
2020. "Reconsidering Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System". Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 5 (1): 1-29
2019. "Redefining the Typology of V2 Languages: The view from Medieval Romance and beyond". Invited submission to Linguistic Variation: Special Issue 'A Micro-Perspective on V2 in Romance and Germanic', 16-46.
2018. Probing the Syntax of a Problematic Particle: Old French SI Reconsidered". Transactions of the Philological Society 116 (3), 332-362.
2016."A Comparative Perspective on the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure". Diachronica 33 (4), 461-502. View Draft
2016."On the Left Periphery of V2 Languages". Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 38: Selected Papers from the 41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, 287-310.
2015. “Verb-Initial Orders in Medieval Romance: A Comparative Account.” Revue Romaine de Linguistique. Special Issue on Syntactic Variation.
2015. "The nature of Old Spanish verb second reconsidered." Lingua 164, 132-155.
2015. “Microvariation in Old Italo-Romance Syntax: Evidence from Old Sardinian and Old Sicilian.” Archivio Glottologico Italiano 100 (1), 3-36.
2015.“The Old Sardinian Condaghes: A Syntactic Study.” Transactions of the Philological Society 113 (2), 177-205.

Book Chapters

In Prep. "Sentential Word Order" in J. Garzonio (ed.) A Grammar of Old Venetian. With Cecilia Poletto.
Forthcoming. “Resumption in Medieval Romance: Reconsidering SI”. In L. Haegeman, T. Lohndal and C. Meklenborg (eds.) Adverbial Resumption in V2 Languages. Oxfod Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2021. "Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis for Old French Word Order". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 275-297.
2021. "Locative Prepositions in the House". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds). Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 472-495. With Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent.
2021. "Germanic and Romance – Data, method, and theory". In S. Wolfe and C. Meklenborg (eds), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-15. With Christine Meklenborg.
2020. "Old French SI, Grammaticalisation and the Interconnectedness of Change". In B. Drinka (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, 31st July-4th August 2017. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2020. "Introduction". In S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-9. With Martin Maiden.
2020. "Old Gallo-Romance, Periodization, and the Left Periphery". In S. Wolfe and M. Maiden (eds). Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9-40.
2020. "Introduction." in R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds) Rethinking Verb Second. Oxford: OUP, 1-15.
2020. "Rethinking Medieval Romance Verb Second." In R. Woods and S. Wolfe (eds) Rethinking Verb Second. Oxford: OUP, 348-368.
2018. Occitan, Verb Second and the Medieval Romance Word Order Debate. In J. Berns, H. Jacobs and D. Nouveau (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2015: Selected Papers from Going Romance Nijmegen 2015. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 315-336.
2018. "Syntactic Variation in Two Sister Languages: A Study of Word Order in Old French and Old Occitan". In G. Panā Dindelegan, A. Dragomirescu, I. Nicula and A. Nicolae (eds.) Romance Syntax. Comparative and diachronic perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 53-84.
2015. “Medieval Sardinian: New Evidence for Syntactic Change from Latin to Romance. In D. T. T. Haug (ed.) Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2015. “Evidence for Microparametric Variation in Medieval Romance Syntax? The View from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian”. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Theses and Dissertations

2015. 'Microvariation in Medieval Romance Syntax: A Comparative Study'. Doctoral Thesis. University of Cambridge. Awarded 2nd February 2016.
2012. 'Word Order Variation in Medieval Sardinian: A Romance Anomaly?'. MPhil Thesis. University of Cambridge

Invited Talks and Presentations

2021. The Romance North/South Divide in Synchrony and Diachrony. Invited talk at ReVerSe1 workshop, Oslo, 10th-11th June 2021.
2020. A Fresh Look at Old Italo-Romance SI'. Anglia Ruskin-Cambridge Romance Linguistics Seminars. 19th November 2020.
2020. Word Order 'Violations' and the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery. Invited talk at workshop 'Complex Prefields in V2 Languages', University of Wuppertal, 25th-26th June 2020.
2020. Germanic in Disguise - Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis. Romance Linguistics Online (ROLO). 15th May 2020.
2020. Germanic in Disguise - Evaluating the Contact Hypothesis. University of Padua Linguistics Seminar Series. 7th May 2020.
2020. Theory and Data in Historical Romance Syntax. Invited lecture series at Università Federico Secondo, Naples, 22nd-24th May 2019.
2019. Using Texts in Linguistics. Invited talk at the Università di Padova doctoral conference on textual methodology, 23rd May 2019.
2019. Syntax and Information Structure in Italo- and Gallo-Romance. Invited seminar series at the Università Federico II, Naples, 22nd and 24th May 2019.
2019. V2 in Romance - Where are we and where are we headed?. Invited talk to the Traces of History Project Meeting on Verb Second, University of Oslo, 10th January 2019.
2018. The Loss of Left Peripheral Focus in Gallo-Romance as a Catastrophic Change. Invited talk to the Workshop on Information Structure and Language Change, Université de Caen Normandie, 3rd-5th April 2018.
2018. Bridging Philology and Formal Diachronic Linguistics. Case Studies from Romance. Invited talk to the Philological Society, London, 12th January 2018.
2017. Microvariation in Text Languages – Two Romance Case Studies. University of Padua Linguistics Seminar Series. 1st June 2017.
2017. Old Gallo-Romance Word Order: The State of the Art. University of Newcastle Invited Speaker Series. 5th October 2016.
2016. On the (Non)-Existence of Embedded V2 in Romance. Invited talk to Traces of History Project Workshop on Matrix/Embedded Asymmetries, University of Oslo, 23rd-25th June 2016
2016. Towards a New Typology of Verb Second Languages. Invited talk given at Rethinking Verb Second, St John's College, Cambridge, 22nd-24th March 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

2020. Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System. 48th Romance Linguistics Seminar, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 3-4th January 2020.
2019. Variation and Change in the Medieval French Subject System. 19th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest, 22nd-23rd November 2019.
2018. Rethinking Romance Microvariation through SI. Syntactic Variation in Romance Workshop at the 18th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest, 23-24th November 2018. View Slides
2018. Variation and Change in Old French Word Order: The Case of SI. LAGB Annual Meeting 2018, Sheffield, 11th-14th September 2018.
2017. Old French and its Place in the V2 Typology. 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31st July-4th August 2017.
2017. Microvariation and Diachronic Stability in Text Languages: Cases Studies from Romance. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation, Padua. 22nd-24th June 2017
2017. Medieval Romance and its Place in the V2 Typology. 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Pavia, Italy, 16th-17th February 2017.

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2017. Towards a New Account of Old Gallo-Romance Word Order. 45th Romance Linguistics Seminar. Cambridge, 4th-5th January 2017
2016. Deriving Modern Romance Isoglosses from Historical Data. 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 31 August – 3 September 2016. University of Naples Federico II, Naples.
2016. On the Limits of Variation in V2 Systems. 5th Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference, Cambridge. 5th-7th May 2016.
2016. Modern Germanic and Old Romance: Keys to a New Understanding of Embedded Verb Second. Forum of Germanic Studies 2016: Workshop on Embedded V2, University of Bristol. January 2016. With Theresa Biberauer.
2015. The Importance of the Fin/Force Distinction for a Theory of (Medieval Romance) V2. Going Romance, Nijmegen, 10th-12th December 2015.
2015. Verb-Movement, EPP-effects and Phase-Edge Properties from Latin to Romance. 15th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest: Workshop on Romance Syntax in Synchrony and Diachrony, 27th-28th November 2015.
2015. On the History of V-to-C Movement in Romance. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University College London. 15th-18th September 2015.
2015. Towards a New Account of the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure. 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Workshop on Diachronic Syntax and Parametric Theory. University of Naples Federico II. July 2015
2015. The Medieval Romance Languages and V2: A New Perspective for Parameter Theory. Traces of History Project: Workshop on Verb-Second. University of Oslo. March 2015
2015. The Medieval Romance Languages and V2: A New Perspective on the Evolution of Romance Clausal Structure. 41st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Università per Stranieri di Perugia. March 2015
2015. Revisiting an Old Problem: The Nature of Spanish Verb-Second Reconsidered. 43rd Romance Linguistics Seminar. Cambridge, January 2015.
2014. Syntactic Variation in the Medieval Romance Languages: A New Perspective on Verb-Initial Orders. 14th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics, University of Bucharest. Workshop on Syntactic Variation. November 2014.
2013. Syntactic Microvariation in Old Italo Romance: The View from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian. Going Romance, Amsterdam, November 2013.
2013. Towards a Syntactic Typology of Old Italo-Romance. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, London, August 2013.
2013. Medieval Sardinian: New Evidence for Syntactic Change from Latin to Romance. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, August 2013.
2013. Microvariation in Old Italo-Romance: Data from Old Sicilian and Old Sardinian. 7th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting, Cambridge, June 2013.
2013. The Interaction of Word Order and Information Structure in Old Sardinian. 8th Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Newcastle, April 2013.
2013. Word Order and Information Structure in Old Sardinian. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Modena, February 2013.
2013. A Study of Word Order in the Old Sardinian Condaghes. Romance Linguistics Seminar XLI, Cambridge, 3rd January 2013.

Selected Other Talks

2020. Syntactic Change in French. General Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 3rd February 2020.
2019. Resumption in Venetan, Sicilian and French. The Languages of the Veneto in a Comparative Perspective Workshop, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 4th-5th April 2019.
2017. Workshop Introduction: Germanic and Romance, Probing the Similarities and Differences. 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31st July-4th August 2017. With Christine Salvesen.
2016. Towards a New Account of Old Gallo-Romance Syntax. Romance Linguistics Seminar, University of Oxford, 1st December 2016.
2016. Some Problems in Historical Romance Syntax (and Some Germanic Parallels). SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 9th March 2016
2015. Does Geography Map onto Morphosyntactic Variation in the Medieval Romance Languages? Some Initial Observations. University of Cambridge Historical Linguistics Research Cluster Event, 21st September 2015.
2015. Syntactic microvariation in the Medieval Romance languages and the nature of V2 reconsidered. SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge. June 2015.
2014. New Perspectives on Old Problems: Towards a Syntactic 'Atlas' of Medieval Romance. University of Cambridge Romance Syntax Seminar. 18th November 2014.
2014. Historical Linguistics and Time Travel. St John's College, Cambridge, Access Summer School. 9th September 2014.
2014. 5 Language Myths. St John's College, Cambridge, Access Event. 2nd July 2014.
2013. Microparametric Variation in Old Romance Syntax. New Data from Southern Italo-Romance. University of Cambridge Syntax Research Cluster Event. 25th September 2013.