Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectical Study

by Doris Angel Borrelli

Overview

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means “doubling,” and it is deemed “syntactic” or “phonosyntactic” because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectical study of this phenomenon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415942072
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2002
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction and Prosodic Preliminaries; Chapter 2 Historical Gemination; Chapter 3 Raddoppiamento Sintattico: Data; Chapter 4 Previous Analyses; Chapter 5 Lenition; Chapter 6 Analysis;