Call for papers: Crosslinguistic perspectives on syntactic change in the diachrony of Romance, edited by Afra Pujol i Campeny and Marc Olivier

This special issue addresses the lack of diachronic studies focusing on variation. Submitted papers must feature: (i) a diachronic study of one or several syntactic phenomena, (ii) a comparison between at least two Medieval Romance varieties, including, for instance, the analysis of contact phenomena, shared linguistic innovations, and the emergence of linguistic splits in geographically contiguous varieties, as well as the comparison of more distant varieties that exhibit interesting parallelisms, (iii) a theoretical approach to the evolution of syntax anchored in the generative tradition, with the aim of testing and redefining formal hypotheses.

The submission deadline is 1st March 2025.