Proto-Romance
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"In the book, an etymological analysis of early romanisms in Slavonic languages is presented. In the fi rst chapter, some general issues related to the topic are discussed: a delimitation of the linguistic material; existing literature in... more
El nombre del manuscrito se debe al especialista lituano en libros antiguos Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930), quien lo adquirió en 1912. Está catalogado como el ítem MS 408 en la Biblioteca Beinecke de libros raros y manuscritos de la... more
Debunking of Gerard Cheshire's presumed "decipherment" of the Voynich manuscript (2nd revision)
In this article we attempt to review some concepts closely related to linguistic reconstruction in the field of Romance languages. Simultaneously, we propose the use of terms such as Protoromance or common Romance, spoken Latin or written... more
Hitherto, two Proto-Romance phonemic inventories have been published: in Hall 1976 (15-176) and in DÉRom (Dictionnaire étymologique roman), whose lemmata (or rather the signifiers of etyma) are meant to be phonological notations using... more
The main goal of this paper is to establish an ordered timeline of the phonetic shifts that oral Latin experienced since the split of Sardinian up to the disintegration of the western family; at the same time, some methodological problems... more
due to absence of voiced stops fricativisation in Central Italian idioms (Tuscan, Lazziano, Umbrese, Romanesco, Nnapolitano) it is thought for Proto-Romance to lack this phenomen. Nevertheless detailed comparative and typological data... more