TY - BOOK ID - 77940122 TI - Dynamics of morphological productivity : the evolution of noun classes from Latin to Italian PY - 2013 SN - 9004244654 9789004244658 9789004225411 9004225412 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Romance languages KW - Latin language KW - Italian language KW - Productivity (Linguistics) KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Romance Languages (Other) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Classical languages KW - Italic languages and dialects KW - Classical philology KW - Latin philology KW - Neo-Latin languages KW - Morphology. KW - Noun. KW - Grammar, Historical. KW - Influence on Romance. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77940122 AB - In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity , Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses. ER -