Tabla de Contenidos:
  • History of the terms "analytic" and "synthetic"
  • Word delimitation : in search of a universal
  • Fishing out the baby : the usefulness of the terms analyticity/syntheticity in diachronic description
  • The verbal core form Latin to French : part 1, the marking of person/number-from synthetic to analytic?
  • The verbal core form Latin to French : part 2, periphrastic cantare habeo; habeo cantatum, and je vais chanter
  • Synthesis in non-contiguous elements : predicate negation in romance
  • On drift, cyclicity, reconstruction, and the motives for changes in the analytic/synthetic spectrum.