Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin

A Companion to the Latin Language

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-79

  Wright, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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Latin on the move, developing significantly from its idealized fixed state in fifth century; Latin, of 2,000 years ago canonical status as the "best" Latin, dynamic rather than static; Linguistic variation consequence of diachronic developments; Natural internal divergence, a multivariant Romance fragmentation into separate Romance languages; Nominal morphology of early Romance languages from that of Latin, in nouns and adjectives; Phonology and phonetics, consonants consonantal developments from standard Latin, conditioned; Romance languages, as Latin, only later in the same way as Modern Greek; Romance Languages, source for spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, spoken language, after the fifth century; Romance languages, spreading to most of the Americas Africa and Asia, insignificant prestige; Syntax, differences between original Latin and Early Romance syntax, word order less free

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EID: 84885545735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343397.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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