ДИФТОНГАЦИЈА У ДАЛМAТОРОМАНСКИМ РЕЛИКТИМА ЛАТИНСКОГ СУФИКСА -ĔLLU, -А** (ИЗ БАЛКАНСКОГ ЛАТИНИТЕТА XII)
VOWEL BREAKING IN DALMATIAN ROMANCE DERIVATIVES IN -ĔLLU, -А (ON BALKAN LATIN XII)

Summary/Abstract: Vowel breaking in Dalmatian Romance appears to have evolved in two phases and, in Montenegro, Serbo-Croatian ‘relics’ of Dalmatian Romance derivatives in -Ĕ́LLU, -A appear to show two distinct outcomes of the Ĕ́, namely Serbo-Croatian *ě > jе and (i)jа. The paper purports that jе-relics continue phase I of the vowel breaking, i.e. Ĕ́> *i̭е, and that (i)jа-relics continue phase II of the process, i.e. *i̭е >*i̭а. From the data, it would appear that phase I was all-Dalmatian, being well documented throughout Dalmatia, and that phase II was specifically Montenegrin, being by and large at tested in Montenegro (and Veglia, in Vegliot, where it has long since been documented and recognised as such).

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