The aim of this work is to analyse the validity of certain traits of the Sprachbund (number of languages which are involved, degree of kinship among them, typology of the shared features) and to verify their applicability to contact phenomena between Greek and Latin. Some phonological, morphological and syntactic features, from different areas of the Greek and Latin world, characterized by particular sociolinguistic situations, will then be analysed in the perspective of areal linguistics. On the basis of the results it is claimed: firstly, the fruitfullness of the areal perspective in analysing the convergence beteewen Greek and Latin in ancient and late-ancient age; secondly the necessity, from a merely theoretical point of view, to distinguish between contact phenomena present in the speakers' production and those pertaining to the linguistic systems involved.
Contatto interlinguisico e mutamento linguistico: aspetti teorici e applicazioni a corpus-Sprachen
CONSANI, Carlo
2013-01-01
Abstract
The aim of this work is to analyse the validity of certain traits of the Sprachbund (number of languages which are involved, degree of kinship among them, typology of the shared features) and to verify their applicability to contact phenomena between Greek and Latin. Some phonological, morphological and syntactic features, from different areas of the Greek and Latin world, characterized by particular sociolinguistic situations, will then be analysed in the perspective of areal linguistics. On the basis of the results it is claimed: firstly, the fruitfullness of the areal perspective in analysing the convergence beteewen Greek and Latin in ancient and late-ancient age; secondly the necessity, from a merely theoretical point of view, to distinguish between contact phenomena present in the speakers' production and those pertaining to the linguistic systems involved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
