The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects

Jeff Kilpatrick

ISBN 10: 1433116677 / ISBN 13: 9781433116674

Editore: Peter Lang, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects. It features a new approach to previously underrepresented phenomena in Italian dialectology in that it combines previously separated changes into one single theory. This volume is particularly useful for scholars within the fields of Romance languages and linguistics as well as for advanced students of the Italian language with an interest in dialects or advanced students of linguistics specializing in Romance languages or Italian.

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• Titolo: The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1433116677
• ISBN 13: 9781433116674
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 155 A x 11 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 11 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 328 grammi

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The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects. It features a new approach to previously underrepresented phenomena in Italian dialectology in that it combines previously separated changes into one single theory. This volume is particularly useful for scholars within the fields of Romance languages and linguistics as well as for advanced students of the Italian language with an interest in dialects or advanced students of linguistics specializing in Romance languages or Italian.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jeff Kilpatrick is an instructor of Italian at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD in historical linguistics with a specialization in Italian dialects.