An outline of the South Picene language I: introduction and phonology

• Autores: Raoul Zamponi
• Localización: Italian journal of linguistics, ISSN 1120-2726, Vol. 31, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 193-222
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • About twenty inscriptions from the East of Italy (550-350/300 BCE) written in the language conventionally named South Picene have been subject to different readings, analyses, and interpretations by the various authors who have dealt with them. This article is the first of two devoted to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of this ancient language of the Italian peninsula. The two articles together will provide a first tentative description of some aspects of the structure of South Picene – a member of the Sabellic subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family – that may be largely shared by the scholars of Italic languages so as to represent, in part, a sort of summary of the results so far achieved in the field of the linguistic analysis of its epigraphic documents. The perspective from which South Picene will be examined is basically a synchronic one. This first article supplies general information on the language and a tentative phonological sketch.