Vowel length from latin to romance / Michele Loporcaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loporcaro, Michele, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; Volume 10.

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Compensatory lengthening.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Duration (Phonetics).

Latin language--Vowels.

Latin language.

Romance languages--Vowels.

Romance languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This publication looks at the changes that took place in vowel length during the development of Latin into the various Romance languages and dialects. It draws on extensive data from a wide range of dialects and presents a new account of these changes, which has implications for a number of issues in Romance historical phonology.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Vowel Length from Latin to Romance""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of figures""; ""List of abbreviations and notational conventions""; ""Latin authors and works cited in abbreviation""; ""1: Introduction""; ""1.1 The starting point: vowel length in Classical Latin""; ""1.2 The long-term trend: Latin harbingers of the loss of CVL""; ""1.3 Structure of the argument and aims of the book""; ""2: Vowel length in the Latin-Romance transition""; ""2.1 Change in Latin VL: metalinguistic testimonies and the rise of OSL""

""2.2 Why OSL must be Proto-Romance: excluding conceivable alternatives""""2.2.1 OSL at a later date, and only in some Romance languages""; ""2.2.2 OSL in Republican Latin?""; ""2.3 The rise of OSL and the regional diversification of Latin""; ""2.3.1 Evidence from metrical inscriptions, part 1: Herman (1982)""; ""2.3.2 Evidence from metrical inscriptions, part 2: Adams (1999)""; ""2.3.3 Latin and Romance in Africa""; ""2.4 Quality is not quantity, after all""; ""2.5 Intermediate summary and provisional conclusion""; ""3: The development of VL in Romance""

""3.1 Three types of distribution of VL in the Romance languages""""3.2 In defence of Open Syllable Lengthening in modern Standard Italian""; ""3.3 The eastern and western peripheries of Romance""; ""3.4 Northern Romance""; ""3.4.1 Northern Italo-Romance""; ""3.4.1.1 Cremonese""; ""3.4.1.2 Emilian""; ""3.4.1.3 Genoese""; ""3.4.1.4 Milanese""; ""3.4.1.5 Friulian""; ""3.4.2 Gallo-Romance""; ""3.4.2.1 Standard French and Oïl dialects""; ""3.4.2.2 The evidence from dialect variation""; ""3.4.3 (The rest of) Rhaeto-Romance""; ""3.4.3.1 Central Ladin""; ""3.4.3.2 Romansh""

""3.5 Summing up: VL and OSL from Proto-Romance to the modern languages""""4: The analysis of Northern Romance vowel length""; ""4.1 Competing analyses of the rise of CVL in Northern Italo-Romance""; ""4.1.1 Formal accounts of the rise of VL in Milanese""; ""4.1.2 Competing explanations of the rise and status of VL in Friulian""; ""4.1.3 Alternative formal accounts for the rise of VL in Cremonese""; ""4.2 Diachronic phonology, generative grammar, and method in historical linguistics""; ""4.3 Too much synchrony into diachrony, too much diachrony into synchrony""

""5: Dialect variation and comparative reconstruction""""5.1 At the vanguard of change: the fading of contrastive VL in Northern Italo-Romance""; ""5.1.1 Loss of CVL in peripheral Friulian dialects""; ""5.1.2 The areal pattern of CVL in Liguria and Piedmont""; ""5.1.3 The fading of CVL in Alpine and Eastern Lombard""; ""5.1.4 The position of Venetan""; ""5.2 Apocope and the rise of contrastive VL in Northern Romance""; ""5.2.1 On the non-co-occurrence of CVL and apocope""; ""5.2.2 The gradual spread of apocope in Northern Italo-Romance""

""5.3 The rearguard of change: at the source of VL in Northern Romance""

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ISBN:

0-19-163053-5

0-19-177974-1

OCLC:

913869189