Romance Philology 73/1 (Spring 2019)

Special Issue in memoriam
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
(15 June 1956 - 12 January 2017)

Introduction
Preface – Jerry R. Craddock
Dialect Variation and the Methodology of Linguistic Reconstruction: Eduardo Blasco Ferrer in Translation – Barbara De Marco

Remembrances
Necrologia d’Eduard Blasco – Joan Armangué
Eduardo Blasco Ferrer: els Archipèlecs d’un Romaniste – Xavier Ballester
Ammentu pro Eduardo Blasco Ferrer – Mauro Maxia
Edoardo Blasco Ferrer (Barçelloña, 1956 – Bastia, 2017) – Fiorenzo Toso

Selected Articles by Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
Notes on Folk Semantics in Sardinian (noematic fields, hapax legomena, toponyms, and other cruces)
Spain and Italy: New Languages in Turmoil
Africa, Sardinia, Sicily: Consistencies and Idiosyncracies in pre-Roman, Latin, Greek, and Arabic
When the Ostrogoths Got Drunk and Stole the Horses at Dorgali
Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Variation. A Representative Case of the Restoration of Dialect Progenitors
Etymology and Ethnolinguistics: Animal Kinship Terms and Totemism in Sardinia
Diachronic Aspects of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Variation in Tabarchino
A Second Assessment of Catalanisms in the Dialects of Southern Italy and Sardinia
Aragonese: Typology and Classification
Names in Sardinian and Italian. Methodological Questions in Toponomastic Research: Sardinian Mele, Mela(s), Mula(s); Italian Miele, Ortu, Manno, Barisone, Salusi
*Ortunbeleś and Neitin iunstir: Paleo-sardic Contributions to the Interpretation of Iberian
A First Assessment of the Iberian (Catalan and Spanish) Superstrate in Gallurese
Two New Proofs of Historical and Linguistic Convergence and Divergence between Sardinia and Corsica

Appendices
I. List of Works Published
II. Select Bibliography
III. Index to Linguistica Sarda: Storia, Metodi, Problemi