From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language
Widely recognized as the standard work in its field, this volume traces in systematic form the history of the development of the sounds and forms of the Portuguese language from its Latin beginnings. Based upon years of research and painstaking consideration of all the significant publications on the subject, it clarifies a great deal that has been obscure in the transition from Latin to Old Portuguese, to modern Portuguese, and to Brazilian Portuguese. It also helps resolve many of the complex problems of Spanish and general Romance philology.

For the second edition of From Latin to Portuguese, the author, Edwin B. Williams, has made substantial additions and revisions, has brought the bibliography up to date, and has utilized the latest research to reevaluate and confirm his original conclusions. In the light of these adjustments and the new material made available by Williams, this extraordinary synthesis must be classified as an indispensable handbook for the student and scholar working in the areas of Portuguese, Hispanic, and Romance philology.

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From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language
Widely recognized as the standard work in its field, this volume traces in systematic form the history of the development of the sounds and forms of the Portuguese language from its Latin beginnings. Based upon years of research and painstaking consideration of all the significant publications on the subject, it clarifies a great deal that has been obscure in the transition from Latin to Old Portuguese, to modern Portuguese, and to Brazilian Portuguese. It also helps resolve many of the complex problems of Spanish and general Romance philology.

For the second edition of From Latin to Portuguese, the author, Edwin B. Williams, has made substantial additions and revisions, has brought the bibliography up to date, and has utilized the latest research to reevaluate and confirm his original conclusions. In the light of these adjustments and the new material made available by Williams, this extraordinary synthesis must be classified as an indispensable handbook for the student and scholar working in the areas of Portuguese, Hispanic, and Romance philology.

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From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language

From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language

by Edwin B. Williams
From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language

From Latin to Portuguese: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language

by Edwin B. Williams

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Widely recognized as the standard work in its field, this volume traces in systematic form the history of the development of the sounds and forms of the Portuguese language from its Latin beginnings. Based upon years of research and painstaking consideration of all the significant publications on the subject, it clarifies a great deal that has been obscure in the transition from Latin to Old Portuguese, to modern Portuguese, and to Brazilian Portuguese. It also helps resolve many of the complex problems of Spanish and general Romance philology.

For the second edition of From Latin to Portuguese, the author, Edwin B. Williams, has made substantial additions and revisions, has brought the bibliography up to date, and has utilized the latest research to reevaluate and confirm his original conclusions. In the light of these adjustments and the new material made available by Williams, this extraordinary synthesis must be classified as an indispensable handbook for the student and scholar working in the areas of Portuguese, Hispanic, and Romance philology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781512808940
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 01/29/1962
Series: Anniversary Collection
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 331
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Edwin B. Williams was Dean of the Graduate School and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He was the author of An Introductory Portuguese Grammar, First Brazilian Grammar: A Course in Beginner's Portuguese, and Spanish and English Dictionary: Diccionario ingles y espanol.

Table of Contents

Introduction
—Vulgar Latin
—Portuguese
—Portuguese Orthography

Phonology
—Tonic Vowels
—Pretonic Vowels
—Final Vowels
—Secondary Tonic
—Posttonic Penult
—Intertonic Vowels
—Initial Short Consonants
—Initial Consonant Groups
—Intervocalic Short Consonants
—Intervocalic Long Consonants
—Medial Consonant Groups
—Final Consonants
—General Phonological Phenomena
—Sporadic Changes

Morphology
—Nouns
—Adjectives
—Numerals
—Articles
—Pronouns
—General Phenomena of Verbal Inflexion
—Tense Endings
—Radical-changing Verbs
—Unclassified Verbs

Selective Bibliography

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