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By Dr Martin Maiden, Martin Maiden, Mair Parry

ISBN-10: 0415111048

ISBN-13: 9780415111041

This e-book makes available the main structural positive factors of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the significance of a close realizing of the dialects for matters mostly linguistic concept. chosen contents include:
* Phonology
* Morphology
* Syntax
* Lexis
* The Dialect components * Sociolinguistics of Dialects
Contributors: Paola Benica; Gaetano Berruto; Guglielmo Cinque; Michela Cennamo; Patrizia Cordin; Thamas Cravens; Marie-Jose Dalbera Stefanaggi; Franco Fanciullo; Werner Forner; Luciano Giannelli; John Hajek; Hermann Haller; Robert Hastings; Michael Jones; Michele Loporcaro; Martin Maiden; Marco Mazzoleni; Zarko Miljacic; Mair Parry; Cecilia Poletto; Lorenzo Renzi; Lori Repetti; Giovanni Ruffino; Giampaolo Salvi; Glauco Sanga; Leonardo Savoia; Alberto Sobrero; Rosanna Sornicola; Tullio Telmon; John Trumper; Edward Tuttle; Alberto Valvaro; Laura Vanelli; Ugo Vignuzzi; Nigel Vincent; Irene Vogel.

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Ven. , Pied. /'dmenga/ 'Sunday' < DOMINICA(M). , W. , word-final devoicing subsequent to loss of final vowels other than /a/ (see Ch. 2) produces a modem dual outcome. Thus W. Em. /f0W 'fire' < FOCU(M)(cf. Lig. 34 Luciano Giannelli and Thomas D. Cravens /'fsgu/) vs. , Lomb. /nef/ 'snow' < */'neve/ < NIUE(M),and ultimately can result in word-final merger of reflexes of original geminates, etymological voiced obstruents, and their voiceless congeners: Bergamasco /brat/ 'ugly' and 'broth' < brutto and brodo, and /sit/ 'thirst' < SITE(M).

Until the early 1970s, the hypothesis was considered seriously, and accepted outright by some, that the modem spirantization of /pi, / t i , /kt which characterizes Tuscan speech was the living remnant of a similar pronunciation in Etruscan. lzzo (1972) made it clear that the substratum argument in this case was not entirely cogent and had little to recommend it, and the overall conclusion reached during a symposium on the topic (Agostiniani and Giannelli (1983)) seems to have been that Etruscan origin of Tuscan spirantization is unlikely as an historical event, and unnecessary as an explanatory device.

Sekku] > [sek] favours a new Msg. [sekx] (Salvioni (1901: 8)). 8 PALATALIZED VARIANTS IN MORPHOPHONOLOGY In rapid speech the inflectional plural marker -[i], becoming yod before vowels, palatalized preceding consonants (see also Chs 30, 33). , Tusc. ['bdli] 'beautiful' > ['b~lli]> [bei], [ka'pelli] 'hair' > [ka'pelli] > [ka'pei], ['tali] 'such' > ['talli] > [tail. For [nil > [p], cf. northern sg. *['b3nu], pl. *['b~ni]> sg. [bo'g], pl. , Tic. sg. [alt] 'high' - pl. [al$ / dg], sg. [kwant] 'how much' - pl.

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