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Tuscan and Etruscan: The Problem of Linguistic Substratum Influence in Central Italy - Couverture souple

Izzo, Herbert

 
9781487591960: Tuscan and Etruscan: The Problem of Linguistic Substratum Influence in Central Italy

Synopsis

Professor Izzo has undertaken a new and thorough investigation of modern Tuscan pronunciation, disproving this hypothesis and providing a definitive conclusion to the debate. He delineates clearly the errors in reasoning of those who trace the Tuscan pronunciation to an Etruscan influence, and presents his conclusions objectively.

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À propos de l'auteur

Herbert J. Izzo (1928-2009) was a professor emeritus in the department of linguistics of the University of Calgary. He studied Romance languages and linguistics at the University of Michigan as well as at the University of New Mexico and in Mexico and Italy. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Stanford, and University of Bucharest and completed dialect research in Italy and Spain. He was also a member of the LSA since 1956.

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