Open AccessVowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance derivatives in Ĕ́LLU,-A (on Balkan Latin XII)
Author(s) -
L Orsat Ligorio
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1801031l
Subject(s) - montenegro , romance , croatian , vowel , history , romance languages , phase (matter) , linguistics , geography , literature , art , ancient history , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Vowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance appears to have evolved in two phases and, in Montenegro, Serbo-Croatian ?relics? of Dalmatian Romance derivatives in -??LLU, -A appear to show two distinct outcomes of the ??, namely Serbo-Croatian *?? > je? and (i)ja?. The paper purports that je?-relics continue phase I of the vowel breaking, i.e. ??> *i??, and that (i)ja?-relics continue phase II of the process, i.e. *i? >*i?. 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).