TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gardani,Francesco
TI  - Dynamics of morphological productivity: the evolution of noun classes from Latin to Italian 
T2  - Empirical approaches to linguistic theory,
SN  - 9789004244658
AV  - PC123 .G37 2013
U1  - 440/.04554 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Romance languages
KW  - Morphology
KW  - Noun
KW  - Grammar, Historical
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Influence on Romance
KW  - Italian language
KW  - Productivity (Linguistics)
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Romance Languages (Other)
N1  - Includes index; Preliminary Material -- 1 The Evolution of Morphology -- 2 Productivity -- 3 Measuring Productivity -- 4 Predicting Productivity Changes -- 5 Productivity of Noun Inflection in Latin -- 6 Productivity of Noun Inflection in Old Italian -- 7 Analysis -- 8 Behind the Scenes of Inflection -- Appendix Chronology of Latin Authors and Works -- Editions of Primary Sources -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Languages -- Index of Lexemes; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity , Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004244658
ER  -