Category: Language & Communication
This book, which is intended as a guide to students of Romance Philology, represents the result of desultory labors extending through a period of twenty years. My first introduction to the scientific pursuit of Provençal linguistics was a course given by Paul Meyer at the Écol...
176. A final -c, which developed in the strong _-ui_ preterits (§ 184), often became attached to the 3d pers. sg. of weak preterits of the fourth conjugation: floríc, fugíc, iau...
10. Part 10(5) Altre autre ＜ _alter_, ‘other’, pronoun and adjective. A dative ✱_altrūī_, following _illūī_, goes back to Vulgar Latin. The Provençal forms autrüs, autrü show the influence...
4. Part 4(2) After ks, s, ss, and sy the vowel was apparently retained in some dialects and lost in others: _dīxĕrunt_ ＞ diron dissęron (through ✱dísseron)[30], _dūxĕrunt_ ＞ düystrent dü...
9. Part 9_altus_: aut ---- aussọr ✱_bellātus_ = _bĕllus_: ---- bellaire bellázer-s bellazọr _gĕnĭtus_: gen génser-s gensọr ✱_grĕvis_ = _gravis_: gręu gręuger ---- _grŏssus_: grǫs gruęyss...
7. Part 775. Of the groups beginning with m (and not ending in l, r, w, or y), the following usually remained unchanged--mb, md, mf, mp, ms, mt: _gamba_ ＞ gamba (if _bobansa_ is from βόμ...
5. Part 5(2) Gw (Germanic w) and kw (Latin qu) were reduced, perhaps in the 10th century, to g and k, except in the west, where the w was retained: _wahta_ ＞ gaita guaita, _warjan_ ＞ gar...
13. Part 13[112] For _ai estat_ we sometimes find _soi agutz_. The confusion arises perhaps from the use of both _es_ and _a_ in the sense of ‘there is’: hence _es estat_ = _a agut_; and b...
6. Part 6(3) Rr, when intervocalic, seems generally to have been distinguished from r during the literary period and later: _cŭrrĕre_ ＞ cọrre, ✱_corrŭptiāre_ ＞ corrossar, _errāre_ ＞ erra...
3. Part 3It is to be noted that ę does not break before u ＜ l nor before i ＜ ð: _bĕllus_ ＞ bęls ＞ bęus, _pĕtra_ ＞ ✱pęðra ＞ pęira, _Pĕtrum_ ＞ ✱Pęðre ＞ Pęire, _rĕtro_ ＞ ✱ręðre ＞ ręire[20]....
2. Part 210. The Gascon group presents certain striking divergences from the other dialects: (1) it shows a b corresponding to Provençal v, as in _be_ = _ve_ ＜ _vĕnit_, _abetz_ = _avetz_...
11. Part 11158. Sometimes, as above, an intertonic vowel disappeared: _mándūcā́re_ ＞ maniar, _mandūco_ ＞ ✱mandüc manüc; ✱_parabolāre_ ✱_páraulā́re_ ＞ parlar, ✱_parabŏlat_ ✱_paraulat_ ＞ par...
8. Part 8r + r ＞ r + --, -- + r, l + r: ✱_Bernhardum_ ＞ Bernart Bernat, _marmor_ ＞ marbre marme, _prŏprium_ ＞ prǫpri prǫpi; _dīe Mércūrī_ (influenced by _dīe Vénĕris_) ＞ dimęrcres dimęcr...
1. Part 1This book, which is intended as a guide to students of Romance Philology, represents the result of desultory labors extending through a period of twenty years. My first introduc...
14. Part 14Vowels: --Accented: 23-39; see a, ẹ, ę, i, ọ, ǫ, ü. --Greek: 22. --Latin: 20-22. --Prefixed to s + cons.: 62, (3). --Provençal: 8-9. --Unaccented: 40-53. _Final Syllable_: 51-53...