*V: An Optimality-Theoretic Examination of Vowel Loss Phenomena, With Special Reference to Latin, Early Western Romance, and Basque

"Remaining individual chapters of the dissertation focus on syncope and final-syllable vowel loss data attested in Gallo-Roman and Old French (chapter 4) and in Old Spanish (chapter 5), and on vowel-loss patterns in two syncopating dialects of Basque, Salacenco and Bortzerrieta (chapter 6). Throughout, an OT analysis of the data is offered, which takes the varying details of vowel loss in the range of languages/dialects examined as stenuning from different rankings of *V vis-a-vis other important constraints on syllable and metrical structure, so that in some instances we observe vowel loss which is quite restrained and ""orderly,"" whereas in other cases, when *V comes to outrank some of the other constraints, we witness vowel loss which becomes drastic in its repercussions on the resulting output structures."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Hartkemeyer, Dale Charles

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hualde, Jose Ignacio
• Charles Kisseberth

• Language, Ancient

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9990016

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82693