Abstract:La fonetica e la flessione.Introduzione.Agnone e una piccola e ridente citta al confine settentrionale del Molise. E posta sulla cresta di una collina ehe, staccandosi a N. E., s' avanza verso O., e scende con ripidissimo pendio da tre iati sulla conca deir alta valle del Verrino, affluente del Trigno. Sorge quindi nel territorio del Sannio caracenio, a una decina di chilometri dal sito ove era Bwianum vetus, forse a fianco di quel-Γ antica Aquilonia, di cui parla Livio nel X libro della prima decade.H popolo … Show more
“…However, the influence of i, u < Ī, Ū on the following tonic /ae/, which becomes /e/ or /je/, is also documented in zone Ic, namely in the dialects of Vasto (Rolin 1908) in southern Abruzzo and Agnone in Northern Molise (Ziccardi 1910)3, as well as in zone II in the dialects of Castelmauro, Ripamolisani, Guglionesi (De Giovanni 2003: 90), as exemplified in (5) The linguistic atlases of Italy, ALI and AIS, also document the influence of i, u < Ī, Ū on the following tonic /ae/. The phenomenon is scattered throughout the area around Teramo (Silvi, Bisenti, Campli, Montesilvano, Castelli), in Southern Abruzzo (Sant'Eufemia a Maiella, Vasto, Palmoli), and Molise (Roccasicura, Morrone del Sannio).…”
Section: Progressive Metaphony In the Abruzzese Dialectsmentioning
This contribution deals with metaphony, an assimilatory process that has targeted stressed vowels in the evolution from Latin to Romance, particularly widespread in Italo-Romance. First, progressive metaphony is tackled, an understudied type of metaphony that concerns only restricted areas of the Italian peninsula located in the Abruzzi and Molise. A description of the process and a reconstruction of the vowel-system of the dialect that best instantiates this phenomenon are provided, followed by a formal account. Both feature-based and element-based analyses are presented, discussed and compared. Then, the inferences from the analysis of progressive metaphony are tested on data concerning regressive metaphony. Finally, the hints gathered from these analyses are exploited to advance an alternative, tentative proposal on the general workings of the metaphonic process, where the element A and the notion of head have a key role. This proposition helps answering some questions that are left open when metaphony is looked at through the usual perspective, and suggests some new paths of research.
“…However, the influence of i, u < Ī, Ū on the following tonic /ae/, which becomes /e/ or /je/, is also documented in zone Ic, namely in the dialects of Vasto (Rolin 1908) in southern Abruzzo and Agnone in Northern Molise (Ziccardi 1910)3, as well as in zone II in the dialects of Castelmauro, Ripamolisani, Guglionesi (De Giovanni 2003: 90), as exemplified in (5) The linguistic atlases of Italy, ALI and AIS, also document the influence of i, u < Ī, Ū on the following tonic /ae/. The phenomenon is scattered throughout the area around Teramo (Silvi, Bisenti, Campli, Montesilvano, Castelli), in Southern Abruzzo (Sant'Eufemia a Maiella, Vasto, Palmoli), and Molise (Roccasicura, Morrone del Sannio).…”
Section: Progressive Metaphony In the Abruzzese Dialectsmentioning
This contribution deals with metaphony, an assimilatory process that has targeted stressed vowels in the evolution from Latin to Romance, particularly widespread in Italo-Romance. First, progressive metaphony is tackled, an understudied type of metaphony that concerns only restricted areas of the Italian peninsula located in the Abruzzi and Molise. A description of the process and a reconstruction of the vowel-system of the dialect that best instantiates this phenomenon are provided, followed by a formal account. Both feature-based and element-based analyses are presented, discussed and compared. Then, the inferences from the analysis of progressive metaphony are tested on data concerning regressive metaphony. Finally, the hints gathered from these analyses are exploited to advance an alternative, tentative proposal on the general workings of the metaphonic process, where the element A and the notion of head have a key role. This proposition helps answering some questions that are left open when metaphony is looked at through the usual perspective, and suggests some new paths of research.
Italy constitutes a fertile terrain for research into language change, both because of the richness of the dialectal variation and because of the length of the period of textual attestation. Such diversity has long been the staple of research in general and Romance historical phonology, morphology, and lexis, but much less attention has been devoted to the same issues within the domain of grammar. In this book therefore, a team of leading international scholars addresses a range of topics designed to exploit and explore the interaction of the geographical and historical dimensions of morphosyntactic change. The opening chapter establishes the conceptual and empirical background. There follow a series of case studies investigating the morphosyntax of verbal and nominal constructions and the organization of the clause. Exemplification is drawn from the full range of Romance dialects spoken within the borders of modern Italy, from Sicily and Sardinia through to Piedmont and Friulia. Some of the studies narrow the focus to a particular construction within a particular dialect; others broaden out to compare different patterns of evolution within different dialects. There is also diversity in the theoretical frameworks adopted by the various contributors. Our aim is both to take stock of the current state of the field and to set out new results and new questions to help move forward the frontiers of that research. The results are of relevance not only to those who specialize in the study of Italo‐Romance, but also to other Romanists and to those whose interest lies in the understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic change, whatever their languages of specialization
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