Phonetics and Philology
Sound Change in Italic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 June 2004
- ISBN 9780199257737
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 242x164x21 mm
- Weight 595 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology, the development of the Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirates in the ancient languages of Italy. In so doing, it tackles a central issue of historical linguistics, the plausibility of explanations for sound change. The book argues that a solution to the problem can only be offered by combining the results of a traditional philological investigation with the resources of a neighbouring discipline, experimental phonetics. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics, the languages of ancient Italy, and Indo-European, as well as phoneticians and phonologists.
MoreLong description:
This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology: the development of the Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirates in the ancient languages of Italy. In so doing it tackles a central issue of historical linguistics: the plausibility of explanations for sound change. The author argues that the problem can be resolved by combining a traditional philological investigation with experimental phonetics. Philological methods enable the presentation of the first integrated account of the evidence for the Italic languages, with detailed discussion of languages other than Latin. Theory and methods from experimental phonetics are then adopted to offer a new explanation for how the sound change might have taken place. At the same time, phonetic methods also confirm the traditional reconstruction of voiced aspirates for Proto-Indo-European. Thus the book offers a case-study of the successful application of synchronic theory and method to a problem of diachrony.
readable and enjoyable account is certainly unlikely to be superseded in the near future.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Phonetics and philology
The Italic Sound Change: Background
Philology: The Evidence For The Italic Development
The Traditional Arguments Reviewed
Phonetics, Predictions, Parallels
A phonetic explanation for the Italic development
Concluding Remarks
