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Una nuova ipotesi fonetica sull'Umlaut primario di germ. */a/ in antico alto tedesco
No full textIl tema di questo contributo riguarda l’origine del cosiddetto Umlaut primario antico alto tedesco. Per quanto l’argomento sia già stato discusso molte volte in passato, il dibattito in merito è tuttora aperto. Sembra comunque che gli studiosi, nonostante il loro reciproco disaccordo, abbiano per lo più accettato l’ipotesi tradizionale dell’esistenza originaria di due tipi di “e” in antico alto tedesco, delle quali quella originatasi da germ. /a/ per metafonia palatale è ritenuta essere una vocale più alta di quella direttamente derivata da germ. /e/; quest’ultima denotata solitamente nella manualistica da .
Sebbene non vi siano ragioni valide per dubitare che la lingua tedesca, ad un certo momento della sua storia, abbia instaurato un sistema fonologico in cui le dette vocali erano in opposizione, realizzandosi rispettivamente come [e] ed [ɛ], rimane tuttavia inspiegato l’apparente paradosso fonetico dell’insorgere della più alta di esse a partire da un’originaria [a], vocale di massima apertura: com’è possibile infatti giungere dalla qualità articolatoria [a] a quella di [e] senza scontrarsi con [ɛ]? Questo breve articolo propone una nuova soluzione fonetica al problema, mediante la quale si potrà render conto di temuti ed incompresi enfants terribles del genere aat. thanchandi / thenkendi ( in handbooks and grammars.
While thinking that there is indeed no reason to doubt that German had at a certain time set up a phonological opposition between, respectively, [e] and [ε], the apparent phonetic paradox of the rise of the former and more closed vowel starting from an ancient very open [a] still remains: how could [a] develop into [e] without running across the [ε]? This paper gives a new phonetic solution to this problem, which is able to account for such enfants terribles as OHG thanchandi / thenkendi (<germ. *þankijanđ-), both found in the same manuscript
Ortografia e radici storiche della lingua cimbra
No full textSi spiegano al pubblico le ragioni delle scelte operate sulle norme ortografiche da adottare per la lingua cimbra di Luserna
Nuove riflessioni sul genitivo plurale gotico
No full textnuova ipotesi sull'origine della controversa desinenza del genitivo plurale gotico -ē.A new hypothesis on the origin of the controversial gothic genitive plural ending -ē
De danske enstavelsesord med udlydende langvokal sproghistorisk belyst af "afstemningsteorien".
No full textIn a recently published paper I presented a new hypothesis regarding the origin of the Danish stød connecting this phenomenon with devoicing of consonants in final position or in internal position before other devoiced or unvoiced consonants. In the light of this “devoicing theory” I will find here an explanation for some historical-linguistic problems linked to the presence of stød in modern Danish monosyllables, which only at first sight seem to contradict the devoicing theory itself. It will be shown, in fact, how the theory itself can be used to find a plausible explanation for such problems.
In this context three different phenomena are shown to be relevant in setting up a reliable explanatory model for the above-mentioned problems: the first stage of the Old Norse development sēa > sjā 'to see', modern Danish schwa-assimilation and ”stødefterslag” (stød afterbeat)
En fælles grammatik for ældre nordisk?
No full textThis article essentially describes the method used for the reconstruction of pan-Nordic forms to be used as headwords in a glossary of anthological passages written in the five medieval Nordic languages: Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, Old Swedish and Old Gutnish (Haugen 2018). Furthermore, the article illustrates how the same kind of pan-Nordic forms can also be used in the grammatical description of the medieval Nordic languages.
This article therefore further develops the subject already addressed by the author previously (Panieri 2019), but places it in the more complex context of the grammatical description. The theoretical background on which the reconstruction of the pan-Nordic forms rests is mainly based on the traditional language comparative method. Its explanatory model alone can hardly account for the whole complex interplay of coexisting factors behind the historical development of language, but it is nevertheless well suited as a basis for an abstract reference system for use in a language description of the Nordic medieval languages which, mostly for pedagogical reasons, strives to emphasize the similarities and common origin of the languages
Altirisch donae vs. sonae und deren etwaige (indo-)germanische Beziehungen
No full textIn this short paper I suggest a new possible etymology for the German word "Zorn", which links it to the Gaelic "dona"
Zimbrisch: Das Deutsch des Frühmittelalters wird in Italien noch gesprochen
No full textVor mehr als tausend Jahren war die deutsche Sprache sehr verschieden: Der Mond hieß māno, un die Sonne sunna. In einer Gegend Italiens, die vom Breitengrad und von der Kultur her, als so italienisch wie z.B. Mailand oder Padua angesehen werden kann, hat man bis in den Beginn des 3. Jahrtausends alte Leute hören können, die diese Wörter genauso wie im Althochdeutschen aussprachen. Solche besonderen Italiener sind die Zimbern. In diesem kleinen Buch wird sowohl ihre Geschichte als auch ihre Sprache kurz gefasst beschrieben.
Dieses Werk basiert auf einer Untersuchung vom Verfasser am Beginn der 2000er Jahre ausgeführt, aber im Bezug der zimbrischen Orthografie ist es einer ganz neu revidierten Normalisierung angepasst worden
Il cimbro come patrimonio storico-linguistico
No full textL'identità linguistica cimbra in relazione alla storia della lingua stessa
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