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 |
Chronology and historical sources | 10 |
Vowels | 24 |
Copyright | |
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Abruzzo affricate allomorphy alternation analogical analytic assimilation auxiliary Basilicata Berruto central and southern century characteristic clause clitic conjugation consonantal declension deletion diphthong direct object distinction example expressed favour feminine plural final Florentine front vowel function Gallo-Romance gender glide grammatical subject history of Italian hypercorrection imperfect indicative infinitive inflectional Italian dialects Italo-Romance Italo-Romance dialects Latin Lazio learnèd lengthening lexical linguistic literary language loved meaning metaphony mid vowels modern Italian monophthongization morphological nasal neuter northern Italian dialects occur original oxytones palatal palatal consonants passato remoto past participle phonetic phonological plural inflection preceding preposition pronouns pronunciation proparoxytones Proto-Romance reflexive regional Rohlfs Romance varieties Salento Sardinian second person singular semantic SOSD sound change southern dialects southern Italy speakers speech spirantization standard Italian stressed syllable subjunctive suffix syllable weight syntactic Tekavčić tense forms third person plural Tuscan dialects unstressed vowels variation velar consonants verb forms voiceless voicing words