Roman brick stamps: evidence for the development of Latin case syntax

Alho, Tommi; Leppänen, Ville

doi:10.13109/glot.2016.92.1.3

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“…23 The written form <II> for e does not occur in this corpus and can thus be excluded as a factor. 24 For brick stamps as linguistic source material, see Alho & Lepp€ anen 2016, 2017 At the time of writing of this article, only a preliminary version of BDR is available. 26 We have excluded thirteen stamps from our analysis on the basis that they contain Latinised Greek names with constant orthographic fluctuation or words with uncertain reading.…”

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On The Mergers Of Latin Close‐Mid Vowels

Leppänen

Alho

2018

Trans of the Philol Soc

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In this article, we examine the details and dating of the mergers of Latin ı, e into e ̣ and u˘, o into o ̣. While these mergers have long since been recognised as a matter of historical fact within the broader development of Latin into Romance, their micro-level mechanics present several problems. By re-examining the available evidence from various empirical and theoretical perspectives, we argue that the mergers were the result of two phonological processes: the rise of peripherality distinctions in the vowel system on the one hand and the loss of contrastive vowel length in the fifth century AD on the other. 1 The authors wish to thank Andreas Opfermann and Michael Mazzola for reading and commenting drafts of this article. We also wish to thank the editor, James Clackson, and the two anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions and corrections. All remaining errors are our own.

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Section: Roman Brick Stampsmentioning

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On The Mergers Of Latin Close‐Mid Vowels

Leppänen

Alho

2018

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Linguistic variation and change

Leppänen¹

2019

Studies in Language Companion Series

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This chapter offers a preliminary examination of linguistic variation and change from the normative perspective. Both key aspects of normativity, correctness and rationality, are discussed in the context of theoretical discussion and demonstrated by concrete examples drawn from the existing literature on normativity, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. The goal is to show, how linguistic variation and change can be understood as empirical phenomena involving norms as constitutive (as opposed to merely evaluative or prescriptive) entities in the ontology of language. Of the three variation types thus identified, only the one involving indeterminable correctness appears central to language change. Finally, language change is conceptualized and discussed as a process of norm change (i.e. as an appearance, disappearance or replacement of norms).

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Roman brick stamps: evidence for the development of Latin case syntax

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On The Mergers Of Latin Close‐Mid Vowels

On The Mergers Of Latin Close‐Mid Vowels

Linguistic variation and change

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