Randall Gess

List of John Benjamins publications for which Randall Gess plays a role.

Titles

Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents

Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg

[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.
Subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives

Edited by Randall Gess and Deborah Arteaga

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 274] 2006. viii, 393 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics
Subjects Generative linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Boutin, Béatrice Akissi, Randall Gess and Gabriel Marie Guèye 2012 Chapter 3. French in Senegal after three centuries: A phonological study of Wolof speakers’ FrenchPhonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 45–71 | Article
Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg 2012 Chapter 1. Introduction to phonological variation in French: Illustrations from three continentsPhonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
Lyche, Chantal, Trudel Meisenburg and Randall Gess 2012 Chapter 14. Phonological variation in French: Unity and diversity across continentsPhonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents, Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), pp. 369–387 | Article
Gess, Randall 2006 The Myth of Phonologically Distinctive Vowel Length in Renaissance FrenchHistorical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. 53 ff. | Article
Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga 2006 ForewordHistorical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and perspectives, Gess, Randall and Deborah Arteaga (eds.), pp. vii ff. | Miscellaneous
SUMMARY Based on the assumption that the loss of the Old French word-internal syllable-final consonants (/S/ ( = [s] and [z]), /N/ ( = all nasal consonants), forward a unified analysis of these changes according to which they should have taken place within two or three centuries, rather than the… read more