A linguistic history of Italian

Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Abbreviations and symbols
 1 Introduction
 1 Perspectives and aims
 2 The emergence of Italian
 2.1 The dialectal background
 2.2 Some observations on linguistic variety in ancient Italy
 2.3 From Florentine dialect to Italian
 3 Chronology and historical sources
 3.1 Chronology
 3.2 Early texts
 3.3 'Proto-Romance' and 'Classical Latin'
 4 A note on phonetic transcription
 5 Some concepts in linguistic change
 5.1 Variation
 5.2 Hypercorrection
 5.3 Sound change and allomorphy
 5.4 A note on the 'phoneme' 5.5 Morphologization and grammaticalization5.6 Analogy
 5.7 The emergence of 'analytic' structures
 5.8 Written and spoken language
 2 History of the sound system
 0 Introduction
 1 The prosodic system
 1.1 The syllable
 1.2 Stress
 1.2.1 Stress in Italian
 1.3 Length
 2 Vowels
 2.1 Loss of vowel length, and expansion of aperture distinctions
 2.2 Loss of Latin diphthongs
 2.3 Stress and vowel quality
 3 Consonants
 3.1 Loss of [h]
 3.2 Emergence of the voiced fricative [v]
 3.3 Postconsonantal [I]>
 [j]
 3.4 Emergence of the palatal and affricate consonants
 3.5 Voicing. 4 Major vowel changes4.1 Major vowel changes, and their morphological effects
 4.2 Diphthongization of low mid vowels
 4.3 Other developments of the low mid vowels
 4.4 The evolution of [aw]
 4.5 Anaphonesis
 4.6 Unstressed vowels
 4.6.1 Asymmetrical merger of Tuscan unstressed vowels
 4.6.2 Rounding and backing of front vowels
 4.6.3 Raising of unstressed [a]
 4.6.4 Deletion of unstressed vowels
 4.6.4.1 Syncope of the penultimate vowel of proparoxytones
 4.6.5 The prosthetic vowel [i]
 5 The glides [j] and [w], and their effects
 5.1 The fate of [w]. 8.1 Syllable-initial strengthening8.2 Regressive assimilation of consonants
 8.2.1 Assimilation and the problem of rafforzamento sintattico
 9 Syllable-final weakening
 10 The word-final consonants
 11 Dissimilation and metathesis
 11.1 Dissimilation
 11.2 Metathesis
 12 The phonetic sources of inflectional -e and -i
 13 A note on 'learnèd' phonology
 3 Structural evolution of nouns, adjectives and verbs
 0 Structure of words
 0.1 The example of the adverb
 0.2 The paradigmatic dimension
 1 Inflectional morphology of the noun and adjective
 1.1 Declension
 1.2 The case system.