Vowel Prosthesis in Romance (Oxford Linguistics) by Rodney Sampson
English | 1 Jan. 2010 | ISBN: 0199541159 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 1 Jan. 2010 | ISBN: 0199541159 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book presents for the first time an in-depth historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. Vowel prosthesis is a change which involves the appearance of a non-etymological vowel at the beginning of a word: a familiar example is the initial e which appears in the development of Latin sperare to Spanish esperar and French espérer to hope.