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From Latin to modern French. Manchester University Press. Sampson, Rodney (2010). Vowel Prosthesis in Romance: A Diachronic Study. Oxford University Press. Zampaulo, André (2019). Palatal sound change in the Romance languages: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Vol. 38.
The complex but regular French sound changes have caused irregularities in the conjugation of Old French verbs, like stressed stems caused by historic diphthongization (amer, aim, aimes, aime, aiment, but amons, amez), or regular loss of certain phonemes (vivre, vif, vis, vit). Later in Modern French, these changes were limited to fewer ...
Intervocalic -B-and -V-merged as [β] in 'Vulgar Latin'. [84] When this sound was followed by [j], it was sometimes lost or delabialized early on, causing [βj] to yield the same outcome as /j/ (and /dj ɡj/) in some words. This can be seen in French ai from HABEO and dois from DEBEO, [85] or Spanish haya from HABEAM and (archaic) foya from ...
Proto-Romance is the result of applying the comparative method to reconstruct the latest common ancestor of the Romance languages.To what extent, if any, such a reconstruction reflects a real état de langue is controversial.
The future indicative tense does not derive from the Latin form (which tended to be confounded with the preterite due to sound changes in Vulgar Latin), but rather from an infinitive + habeō periphrasis, later reanalysed as a simple tense. Formally identical to the future perfect indicative, the two paradigms merged in Vulgar Latin.
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From Latin to Modern French with especial consideration of Anglo-Norman (revised ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995). New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508345-8. Smith, Jane Stuart (2004). Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic. Oxford University ...
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