The Corpus Vindolandense includes the oldest extant Latin handwritten documents in Britain written between the 1st and 3rd century CE. One of the most interesting phenomenon concerns the so-called I longa. Actually, this graphic feature may mark the vowel, but also the palatal glide in hiatus. Our analysis concerns this latter case, i.e. the spelling phenomenon where [i] in hiatus context loses its status of syllabic nucleus, becoming a glide. Since in the Corpus Vindolandense I longa in hiatus occurs quite often, we assume that the gliding of i in hiatus occurred in Latin as spoken in Vindolanda. The process can be described as an instance of the sociolinguistic variation because its frequency reflects diaphasic and diastratic dynamics.
Titolo: | I longa in iato nel Corpus Vindolandense | |
Autori: | COTUGNO, Francesca (Corresponding) | |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2015 | |
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Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11562/1061577 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01.01 Articolo in Rivista |
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