Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Chapter one. History of the terms "analytic" and "synthetic" -- Chapter two. Word delimitation: in search of a universal -- Chapter three. Fishing out the baby: The usefulness of the terms analyticity/syntheticity in diachronic description -- Chapter four. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 1: The marking of person/number: from synthetic to analytic? -- Chapter five. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 2: Periphrastic cantare habeo, habeo cantatum, and je vais chanter -- Chapter six. Synthesis in non-contiguous elements: predicate negation in Romance -- Chapter seven. On drift, cyclicity, reconstruction, and the motives for changes in the analytic/synthetic spectrum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Backmatter