Initial Alternation in Proto-Romance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11114533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clifford S Leonard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267 |
| Publication date | 1968-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411622 |
| OpenAlex | W2316977761 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The traditional explanation of Proto-Romance geminate initials (as in Italian rafforzamento), in terms of a progressive assimilation subsequent to Latin, is here rejected in favor of a theory of cognation between the strikingly parallel initial morphophonemics of Romance and Celtic. To sustain this, it is necessary to redefine geminates as units and medial so-called single consonants as phonemically composite. Romance syntactic ‘gemination’ is thus replaced by syntactic ‘lenition’, as in Celtic. Lenition actually handles certain Italian features better than does gemination
Alternation (linguistics) · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Romance · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Die Mundarten Südlukaniens
Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century
The Phonemes of Costa Rican Spanish
Esquisse d'une Histoire de la Langue Latine
Initial Consonants and Syntactic Doubling in West Romance
Phonologische Studien zur romanischen Sprachgeschichte
Die Romanische Anlautsonorisation
Reduplication of Consonants in Italian Pronunciation
Structural Sketch of Rumanian
The Reconstruction of Proto-Romance
Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |