The Sounds of Latin. A Descriptive and Historical Phonology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2860657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland G Kent (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1932 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 11 |
| Publication date | 1932-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/521970 |
| OpenAlex | W2800781501 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Languages may be classified into groups, the dialects of which are related to one another approximately as arc the members of a human family. Examples are the lndo-European (§2); the Semitic of southwestern Asia, the Ural-Altaic of northeastern Europe and northern Asia, the Dravidian of southern India, the Bantu of southern Africa, and the Algonkian of certain North American Indians. The characteristics of a group are: A. The word bases or roots are the same in all the dialects; though borrowing of words from other languages may obscure this. B. The morphology of all the dialects is the same; though the wearing down and disappearance of inflectional endings may obscure this, as in modern English. C. The syntax of all the dialects is the same; though this may be obscured by changes brought about, for example, by loss of endings and assumption of their functions by prepositions, auxiliary verbs, and fixed word-order in the sentence: as in English, when compared with Latin
Linguistics · Phonology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |