[Lexicog] Re: Particularity of Neapolitan grammar - origin?

[Sabine Cretella]

Sorry, I haven't been working for some days - there's some kind of 
"cold" around.

Well Greek is a basic "origin" to Neapolitan - Napoli comes from 
Neapolis (new city), when the city was founded around 470 a.C.

So our "mammate" your mother (mamma+te) very likely comes from that period.

And searching I found a source that says that in Naples people went 
ahead for a very long period to talk Greek, the language of its 
founders, even after the Roman conquist.
http://www.napoliontheroad.it/lagalalatino.htm

:-)

Thank you!

Sabine

Kees van Kolmeschate wrote:

>Funny that no one so far mentioned (modern) Greek (in this NeaPolitan 
>context), where apparently the possessive pronoun(?) is appended to the 
>noun:
>o fílos mou - my friend
>énas filos mou - a friend of mine
>and see the working of accents in
>o ánthropos - the man
>o ánthropós mou - my man
>
>ref: 
>www.sfu.ca/~papappas/webpages/PDFfiles/Handouts/MGreek1/MGr1_hd5.pdf
>
>  
>
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