A Course in Romance Linguistics: A diachronic viewAgard provides an historical comparison of the major Romance languages with a reconstruction of their common source and a chronological account of their development through changes and splits. |
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Contents
Notes for Chapter 1 | 27 |
Notes for Chapter 2 | 34 |
Notes for Chapter 3 | 39 |
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A Course in Romance Linguistics: A diachronic view Frederick Browning Agard No preview available - 1984 |
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adjective already alternants basic become borrowed Castilian Category changes CLat clause clusters coda cognate Common comparative complement consonant contrast corpus correspondences course CRom derived determiner diachronic dialects doublet eastern enter example existing expected final French function future gerund head indicative initial input inventory It-W Italian Italo-western language later Latin loss lost marked meaning merger modality modifiers namely nasal nominal noted noun object occur onset original perfective phonemic phonological plural pointing popular Port Portuguese position predicate present PRom pronouns question reconstruction reduced reflects reflex regular remains replaced restructured result Romance Roumanian rule semantic shift shows single southern Spanish split stem stressed structure suffix syllable tense underlying variable variant verb voiced vowel Western