The Corpus Vindolandense includes the oldest extant Latin handwritten documents in Britain written between the 1st and 3rd century CE. Tne of the most interesting phenomenon concerns the so-called I longa. Actually, this graphic feature may mark the vowel, but also the palatal glide in hiatus. Our analysis concerns this latter case, i.e. the spelling phenomenon where [i] in hiatus context loses its status of syllabic nucleus, becoming a glide. In the Corpus Vindolandense, I longa in hiatus occurs in 139 cases showing that we are dealing with a process of resyllabification. We assume that the gliding of in hiatus occurred in Latin as spoken in Vindolanda. The process can be described as an instance of the sociolinguistic variation since its frequency reflects diaphasic and diastratic dynamics
I longa in iato nel Corpus Vindolandense
COTUGNO, FRANCESCA
2015-01-01
Abstract
The Corpus Vindolandense includes the oldest extant Latin handwritten documents in Britain written between the 1st and 3rd century CE. Tne of the most interesting phenomenon concerns the so-called I longa. Actually, this graphic feature may mark the vowel, but also the palatal glide in hiatus. Our analysis concerns this latter case, i.e. the spelling phenomenon where [i] in hiatus context loses its status of syllabic nucleus, becoming a glide. In the Corpus Vindolandense, I longa in hiatus occurs in 139 cases showing that we are dealing with a process of resyllabification. We assume that the gliding of in hiatus occurred in Latin as spoken in Vindolanda. The process can be described as an instance of the sociolinguistic variation since its frequency reflects diaphasic and diastratic dynamicsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.