Ebook: Past Participles from Latin to Romance

A detailed study of the history of past participle morphology in Romance.

From the introduction of the book: "Since the time of the Technē Grammatikē ascribed to Dionysius Thrax (ca. 100 BCE), participles have been acknowledged in the West as a part of speech that shares features of verbs and nouns. [...] It is astonishing how little the standard survey of Latin or Romance takes account of the morphology of past participles. [...] It is clear, therefore, that the morphology of past participles in neo-Latin has not yet been investigated in historical depth, or with the comparative breadth across the Romance-speaking areas of Europe (ROMANIA) that the topic deserves. In the present work, I sketch the Latin system of p.p. formation and review how later speakers have kept or lost or transformed the inventory of past participles left to them by the legionaires."