In virtue of the LQC, [ε] and [ɔ] in Italian are the respective outcome of the Ě and the Ŏ in Latin. It is important to note that these two phonemes would experience a process towards diphthong in open (light or free) syllable, e. gr. Lat. DĚCEM > It. dieci [‘dȷe(t)ʃi]; Lat. ŎVUM > It. uovo [‘uoβo]. The typical paragogic vocalism that Sardinian speakers deploy (e.gr. tui pigas [‘tui’βiɣaza]) is strongly contrasting with the fall of the final etymological -s in the majority of dialectal forms developed in the Italic peninsula and in Rumania, this being in turn a definite difference between Western and Eastern romances. Cf. Renzi (1992), p. 197. On the other hand, nonetheless, the paragogic vocalism is said to be of epenthetic nature, contributing in a way to the apparent predilection of Sardinian for free—or light—syllabic unities, this is, not blocked by a consonant. Cf. Blasco (2009), p. 92; Herman (1987), p. 97; Alkire-Rosen (2010), p. 12.

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• TITLE: Some Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics with Regard to Sardinian

  AUTHORS: Jordi Crespo Saumell

  KEYWORDS: Romance Linguistics, Sardinian, Substratum, Latin Enculturation, Law of the Quantitative Collapse, Metaphonism, Superstratum, Catalan, Diglossia

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.2 No.6, June 26, 2015

  ABSTRACT: When it comes to consider the vast space that Latin and the Romance languages occupy, geographical, temporal, and social dimensions pop up at least as unavoidable. In coming to grips with the evolution of the vulgar Latin into their extant reflexes, there is also unanimous agreement in regarding vowel quantity, syllable boundaries, and syllable weight as the three main concepts accounting for the progressive stages and the final aspect of the neo-Latin languages today. In reassuming such a theoretical frame, this paper is more particularly intended to give a picture of these features when applied to Sardinian. Its insular development beside the controversy on its alleged non Indo-European origin, the conservative forms the Sardinian took with regard to Latin, or the deep imprint the diverse linguistic superstrata exerted upon it are all these traits that, doubtlessly, contribute to making of the Sardinian a unique Romance standing for its own place in the scene of the minority languages.