Latin-Romance Phonology: Prosodics and Metrics (Ars Grammatica) - Softcover

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This book will, I hope, serve both linguists and non-linguists. The linguists may find in it, in addition to the application and implementation of various aspects of linguistic theory, new and fruitful theses in Latin-Romance descriptive and historical linguistics; at the same time, it should. I convey to non-linguist classicists and Romanists information which only linguistics can provide toward the solution of problems in their philological and literary disciplines, and scholars concerned with metrics (‘prosody’) may find useful my views on the linguistic bases of versification. Since I wished to address readers of varied background, I found myself obliged to steer a course avoiding the Scylla of boredom and the Charybdis of incomprehension at some places in my text: classicists will, I trust, bear patiently if I explain to some linguists what, say, a Latin meter is like, as will linguists when I tell some classicists about the difference between segmental and non-segmental prosodic features of speech (indeed expert linguists may in particular find that Chapter ZA-D, but perhaps not Chapter 2E, covers somewhat familiar ground). But if despite my efforts, I have come uncomfortably close to the monster in its cave or have just barely managed to veer away from the maelstrom, my last recourse is to call upon the indulgence of the reader, and to ask him to use other sources (often provided in the Bibliography) where I actually fail him.

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