Vowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance derivatives in Ĕ́LLU,-A (on Balkan Latin XII)
Vowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance appears to have evolved in two phases and, in Montenegro, Serbo-Croatian ‘relics’ of Dalmatian Romance derivatives in -Ĕ́LLU, -A appear to show two distinct outcomes of the Ĕ́, namely Serbo-Croatian *ě“ > je“ and (i)ja“. The paper purports that je“-re...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Južnoslovenski Filolog |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2018/0350-185X1801031L.pdf |
| Summary: | Vowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance appears to have evolved in two phases
and, in Montenegro, Serbo-Croatian ‘relics’ of Dalmatian Romance derivatives
in -Ĕ́LLU, -A appear to show two distinct outcomes of the Ĕ́, namely
Serbo-Croatian *ě“ > je“ and (i)ja“. The paper purports that je“-relics continue
phase I of the vowel breaking, i.e. Ĕ́> *i̭é, and that (i)ja“-relics
continue phase II of the process, i.e. *ié >*iá. From the data, it would
appear that phase I was all-Dalmatian, being well documented throughout
Dalmatia, and that phase II was specifically Montenegrin, being by and large
attested in Montenegro (and Veglia, in Vegliot, where it has long since been
documented and recognised as such). [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 178007: Etimološka istraživanja srpskog jezika i izrada Etimološkog rečnika srpskog jezika] |
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| ISSN: | 0350-185X 2406-0763 |