A Linguistic History of ItalianA 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
History of the sound system | 33 |
Major vowel changes | 34 |
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Abruzzo adverbs allomorphy alternation analogical analytic auxiliary Basilicata Berruto Calabria characteristic clause clitic conjugation declension deletion diphthong direct object distinction example expressed favour Florentine front vowel function gender grammatical subject history of Italian hypercorrection imperfect indicative infinitive inflectional intervocalic Italian dialects Italo-Romance Italo-Romance dialects Latin Lazio learnèd lengthening lexical linguistic literary language loved masculine meaning metaphony mid vowels modern Italian morphological neuter northern Italian nouns and adjectives originally oxytones palatal palatal consonants 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 Salento Sardinian second person singular semantic sixteenth century SOSD sound change southern dialects southern Italian dialects southern Italy speakers speech spirantization standard Italian stressed syllables subjunctive suffix syntactic Tekavčić tense forms third person plural Tuscan dialects unstressed vowels variation velar consonants verb forms voiceless voicing vowel length words