Research Catalog

Title

Diachronic studies in lexicology, affixation, phonology / Yakov Malkiel.

Author

Malkiel, Yakov, 1914-

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

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Description

vi, 313 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Edita and inedita, 1979-1988 ; v. 2
• Malkiel, Yakov, 1914- Edita and inedita, 1979-1988 ; v. 2.

Subject

• Historical lexicology
• Historical linguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lexicology -- From Intuitive Etymology through Word-History to Microglottology -- Problems in the Diachronic Differentiation of Near-Homophones -- Toward Higher Formalization in Etymology: The Spanish Culinary Term cilierveda and its Variants -- Crumena, a Latin Lexical Isolate, and its Survival in Hispano-Romance (Sp. colmena, dial. cormena 'Beehive') -- Affixation -- Infinitive Endings, Conjugation Classes, Nominal Derivational Suffixes, and Vocalic Gamuts in Romance -- Old French Verbal Abstracts in -eiz -- Phonology -- Apocope: Straight; Through Contact of Languages; via Suffixal Polarization. The Spanish Derivational Morphemes and Word-Final Segments -in and -ino -- Transmission into Romance of Latin nodus, nuptiae, nurus, and nux: Diachronic Interplay of Phonetic and Semantic Analogies -- Fluctuating Intensity of a 'Sound Law': Some Vicissitudes of Latin [actual symbols not reproducible] in Spanish -- Discovery in Old French Phonology of the Niece, Piece, Tierc, Cierge Type.

ISBN

9027220727 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^91048116^

OCLC

• 25248178
• SCSB-12514997

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library