On the Graphemic Alternance 〈E〉 ∼ 〈I〉 and 〈O〉 ∼ 〈U〉 in Latin Papyri and Ostraca: Some New Remarks

Barchi, Serena (2019) On the Graphemic Alternance 〈E〉 ∼ 〈I〉 and 〈O〉 ∼ 〈U〉 in Latin Papyri and Ostraca: Some New Remarks. ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 59 (1-4). pp. 35-44. ISSN 0044-5975 (print); 1588-2543 (online)

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Abstract

This paper intends to provide some data about the occurrence of {e} and {o} for Classical Latin (= CL) /ĭ/ and /ŭ/ in Latin papyri and ostraca. In order to carry out a study of the incidence of some grapho-phonological phenomena within documentary texts and to examine to what extent they could be related with parameters of sociolinguistic variation, the examined texts have been collected in a corpus which has been tagged for both linguistic and extralinguistic aspects. This corpus is available in the Database CLaSSES (http://classes-latin-linguistics.fileli.unipi.it), created at the FILELI Department of the University of Pisa (§ 1). The study will focus in particular on the analysis of this graphemic alternance in the Bu Njem ostraca (§ 2.1); then, it will dwell on the qualitative analysis of three lexemes in Egyptian papyri and ostraca in which a proto-Romance merger between /ĭ/ and /ē/ in /e/ and /ŭ/ and /ō/ in /o/ in tonic position might be documented. Particular attention is paid to interference phenomena with Greek (§ 2.2).

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