36.1042, Books: The pre‑Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon: Swanenvleugel (2025)

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Date: 25-Mar-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The pre‑Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon: Swanenvleugel (2025)


Title: The pre‑Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0687

Author(s): Cid Swanenvleugel

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-472-8
Pages: 631

Abstract:

The Sardinian language descends from Latin, introduced to Sardinia
following the Roman conquest in 238 BCE. Yet, parts of the Sardinian
vocabulary cannot be explained from a Latin perspective and may
instead reflect remnants of extinct languages once native to the
island. This dissertation aims to uncover Sardinia’s linguistic
prehistory by systematically examining these non-inherited words.
Through phonological and morphological analysis, it reconstructs
several properties of the pre-Roman Sardinian language. The study
argues that there is insufficient evidence to support a genetic
relationship between Pre-Roman Sardinian and languages such as Berber,
Basque, or Etruscan. However, it does find evidence suggesting that
Sardinia’s Pre-Roman language was closely related to other unattested
languages once spoken along the western Mediterranean Sea coast of
Europe.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Sardinian (srd)

Language Family(ies): Sardinian




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