A Linguistic History of ItalianLongman, 1995 - 300 pages A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise explanation of why modern Italian grammar has become the way it is. It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the modern structure of Italian, revealing patterns and structures which are not always apparent to those who are only familiar with modern Italian. Although the book concentrates on the internal history of the language, the emergence of Italian is considered against the wider background of the history of italian dialects, and other external factors such as cultural and social influences are also examined. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Chronology and historical sources | 10 |
History of the sound system | 24 |
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Abruzzo adverbs allomorphy alternation analogical analytic auxiliary Basilicata Berruto Calabria central and southern century characteristic clause clitic conjugation consonants deletion diphthong direct object distinction example expressed fatto favour feminine plural Florentine front vowel function gender grammatical subject history of Italian hypercorrection indicative infinitive inflectional intervocalic Italian dialects Italo-Romance Italo-Romance dialects Latin Lazio learnèd lengthening Lepschy linguistic literary language loved meaning metaphony mid vowels modern Italian modern language morphological neuter northern Italian dialects nouns and adjectives occur open syllables original oxytones palatalization passato remoto past participle perfective phonetic phonological plural inflection preceding preposition present tense pronouns pronunciation proparoxytones Proto-Romance reflexive regional rhizotonic Rohlfs Romance languages Romance varieties root Salento Sardinian second person singular semantic SOSD southern dialects southern Italy speakers speech spirantization standard Italian stressed syllables structure subjunctive suffix syntactic Tekavčić tense forms third person plural Tuscan dialects unstressed vowels variation velar velar consonants verb forms voiceless voicing words