TITLE:
Some Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics with Regard to Sardinian
AUTHORS:
Jordi Crespo Saumell
KEYWORDS:
Romance Linguistics, Sardinian, Substratum, Latin Enculturation, Law of the Quantitative Collapse, Metaphonism, Superstratum, Catalan, Diglossia
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.6,
June
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: When it comes to consider the vast space that Latin
and the Romance languages occupy, geographical, temporal, and social dimensions pop up at least as unavoidable. In coming to grips with the
evolution of the vulgar Latin into their extant reflexes, there is also unanimous agreement in regarding vowel quantity, syllable boundaries, and syllable weight as the three main concepts accounting for the
progressive stages and the final aspect of the neo-Latin languages today. In reassuming such a theoretical frame, this paper is more particularly
intended to give a picture of these features when applied to Sardinian. Its insular development beside the controversy on its alleged non
Indo-European origin, the conservative forms the Sardinian took with regard to
Latin, or the deep imprint the diverse linguistic superstrata exerted upon it are all these traits that, doubtlessly, contribute to making of the Sardinian a unique Romance standing for its own place in the scene of the minority languages.