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

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Offers an explanation of disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects. This book is also useful for scholars in the fields of Romance languages and linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Kilpatrick
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781433116674
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-1667-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 11 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics; Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics