8.1479, Qs: Dictionary,Lucanian stress,2 on vowels
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Subject: 8.1479, Qs: Dictionary,Lucanian stress,2 on vowels
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:49:27 +0100
From: "Giovanni Iamartino" <giiamar at tin.it>
Subject: William Thomas' English-Italian Dictionary of 1550
2)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:13:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Guido Mensching <Mensching at spinfo.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Subject: Paragogic vowels
3)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:52:18 +0200 (MESZ)
From: "Loren A. BILLINGS" <billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject: Lucanian stress
4)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:46:11 -0700
From: Marc van Oostendorp <oostendorp at rullet.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Epenthetic vowels and vowel harmony
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:49:27 +0100
From: "Giovanni Iamartino" <giiamar at tin.it>
Subject: William Thomas' English-Italian Dictionary of 1550
I have been working on Thomas' English-Italian Dictionary of 1550.
My question is: are there any articles published on this dictionary and/or
its author after Desmond O'Connor's 1990 _History of Italian and English
Bilingual Dictionaries_?
Thank you for any help or suggestions on this item
Giovanni Iamartino
Associate Professor of
History of the English Language
University of Milan
<giiamar at tin.it>
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:13:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Guido Mensching <Mensching at spinfo.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Subject: Paragogic vowels
In Sardinian, there is a rule which inserts a paragocic vowel after the
last consonant of a word before a pause (e.g. at the end of a sentence).
This paragogical vowel is always a repetition of the last vowel in the
word. ===============================================
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Are there other languages where the same phenomenon occurs?
(In the following examples the paragogic vowel is written as a capital
letter in the phonetic transcription:)
Sos omines an bidu duos caddos.
[soz 'ominez an 'bidu 'duos 'kaddozO]
===
"the men have seen two horses."
Sos caddos an bidu duos omines.
[sos 'kaddoz an 'bidu 'duoz 'ominezE]
===
"the horses have seen two men"
... ... ... ... an bidu duas crapas.
[ an 'bidu 'duas 'krapazA]
===
".. ... ... ... have seen two goats."
... ... ... ... an bidu duos barberis.
[ an 'bidu duor bar'berizI].
===
... ... ... ... have seen two hairdressers"
Thanks in advance for your interest and help!
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:52:18 +0200 (MESZ)
From: "Loren A. BILLINGS" <billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject: Lucanian stress
What is the stress in combinations of proclitics plus a monosyllabic verb
in Lucanian (spoken in S. Italy)?
Sharon PEPERKAMP (1996:109) reports that "in Lucanian, stress shifts onto
the penultimate syllable of the encliticized string." This is shown in (1)
[= her (21), p. 122; _ at _ = schwa; stress is indicated with _'_ before the
vowel]:
(1) v'inn@ + l@ --> vEnn'ill@ "sell it"
r'a + m@ + l@ --> ramm'ill@ "give me it"
mann'at@ + m@ + l@ --> mannat at m'ill@ "send me it"
Lucanian, apparently like Neapolitan, positions clitics before a
non-imperative verb. I asked Sharon about how a monosyllabic verb preceded
by one or more clitics would be stressed. She supplied me the following
three monosyllabic forms by e-mail:
(2) so "I am; they are"; si "you are"; E "(s)he is"
Unfortunately, her sources (GIOSCIO 1985, L"UDTKE 1979) do not list how
such forms would be stressed with proclitics. Please respond to me
<billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de> and I'll post a summary. Please also re-post
this query to any other appropriate list. --Loren Billings
References:
GIOSCIO, J. (1985) _Il dialetto lucano di Calvello._
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
L"UDTKE, H. (1979) _Lucania._ [= Profilo dei dialetti
italiani , 17.] Pisa: Pacini editore.
PEPERKAMP, Sharon (1996) "On the prosodic representation
of clitics." _Interfaces in phonology._ [= Studia
grammatica, 41.] Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 102-127.
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:46:11 -0700
From: Marc van Oostendorp <oostendorp at rullet.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Epenthetic vowels and vowel harmony
I am interested in languages in which epenthetic vowels are exceptions
to vowel harmony or other processes of feature sharing among vowels
(such as umlaut). Of particular interest for me would be languages in
which the epenthetic vowel cannot be the 'target' for harmony.
A hypothetical example would be the following, with rounding harmony and
an epenthetic vowel /e/:
(i) 'underlying' vowel /e/: /toto-te/ -> [toto-to]
'epenthetic' vowel: /totork/ -> [totorek] (*totorok)
A superficial survey suggests that patterns such as (i) do not exist in
natural language. Does anybody know which languages would be relevant?
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