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Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
BaltoSlavic Accentual Mobility - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Author:Olander, Thomas Paul Videsott examines the fate of the vernacular non-literary written language in Northern Italy from its first appearance up to 1525 (the year of publication of P. Bembo´s Prose della volgar lingua). For this, he undertakes a scriptological and scriptometric analysis of 1165 non-literary Old North Italian texts with a total of 558,892 words fr... more »om 35 writing centres. Overall, one result is that the North Italian dialects displayed a far greater autonomy towards the emerging Tuscan norm than was the case in France for the Northern French dialects vis-ŕ-vis the imperial Parisian standard language.« less