Gothic Loanwords in Spanish and Portuguese: Evidence for Sounds and Sound Changes
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Diego de Acosta
Abstract
This article aims to bridge existing scholarship on Gothic and early Ibero-Romance phonology by examining the adaptation of Visigothic loanwords in Hispano- and Luso-Romance. There are considerable challenges in establishing Visigothic provenance for an Ibero-Romance word, which are due to recognized indeterminacies in the history of the Gothic language and peoples, as well as the deceptively stable Latin textual record of the early Middle Ages. Nevertheless, an updated survey of putative Gothic loanwords and their adaptation in Ibero-Romance reveals definite patterns and yields important information about the changing pronunciation of Ibero-Romance, as well as the pronunciation of Visigothic, at the time of borrowing.
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front Matter
- CONTENTS
- RESEARCH ARTICLES
- Assessing the Use of Multiple Forms in Variable Contexts: The Relationship between Linguistic Factors and Future-Time Reference in Spanish
- ¿Mejor o peor español? Actitudes lingüísticas de universitarios hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos
- Otra mirada a los procesos de gramaticalización del Presente Perfecto en español: Perú y Argentina
- Contextual Congruence Tense-Demonstration in Spanish: A Temporal Discourse Model-Based Account
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Colina: Spanish Phonology: A Syllabic Perspective
- STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE. Topic: Loan Words
- Gothic Loanwords in Spanish and Portuguese: Evidence for Sounds and Sound Changes
- VIEWPOINTS. Topic: Interfaces
- Spanish Morphophonology
- Prosodia y pragmática
- The Syntax-Semantics Interface in Grammar
- Interfaces in Bilingualism
- DISSERTATION NOTICES
- Question Intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front Matter
- CONTENTS
- RESEARCH ARTICLES
- Assessing the Use of Multiple Forms in Variable Contexts: The Relationship between Linguistic Factors and Future-Time Reference in Spanish
- ¿Mejor o peor español? Actitudes lingüísticas de universitarios hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos
- Otra mirada a los procesos de gramaticalización del Presente Perfecto en español: Perú y Argentina
- Contextual Congruence Tense-Demonstration in Spanish: A Temporal Discourse Model-Based Account
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Colina: Spanish Phonology: A Syllabic Perspective
- STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE. Topic: Loan Words
- Gothic Loanwords in Spanish and Portuguese: Evidence for Sounds and Sound Changes
- VIEWPOINTS. Topic: Interfaces
- Spanish Morphophonology
- Prosodia y pragmática
- The Syntax-Semantics Interface in Grammar
- Interfaces in Bilingualism
- DISSERTATION NOTICES
- Question Intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish
