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Lausberg Area
The Lausberg area is a part of southern Italy that covers much of Basilicata and the northern edge of Calabria. In it are found Southern Italian dialects characterized by vowel developments that are atypical for Italo-Romance languages. It is named after the German philologist Heinrich Lausberg, who brought the area to the attention of mainstream scholarship in 1939. Stressed vowel outcomes There are three main subdivisions, as can be seen on the map to the upper right. Romanian-like Dubbed the ''Vorposten'' ('outpost') by Lausberg, this area encompasses the towns of Castelmezzano, Potenza, and Picerno; here the Latin vowel /i/ merged with /eː/, while /u/ merged with /uː/. The same asymmetric vowel development characterizes Balkan Romance languages such as Romanian. Unlike them, the dialects of the ''Vorposten'' proceeded to merge the outcome of Latin /e/ with the combined outcome of /i/ and /eː/. Transitional The western part of Lausberg's ''Mittelzone'' ('mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinian Phonology
Sardinian is conventionally divided, mainly on phonological criteria, into three main varieties: Campidanese, Logudorese, and Nuorese. The last of these has a notably conservative phonology, compared not only to the other two varieties, but also to other Romance languages as well. Vowels All Sardinian varieties shared an original vowel system characterized by the merger of each of Latin's short vowels with its long counterpart ( merged with , merged with , and so on) resulting in an inventory of five vowels: . Sardinian vowels are lengthened under primary stress, especially in open syllables. Compare and . Sardinian vowels have long been subject to a process of metaphony whereby are raised to oif the following syllable contains a high vowel (either or ). If the syllable that precedes the resulting or itself contains another or , that vowel is also raised, a process which may repeat across multiple syllables. , for instance, is realized as , with metaphony spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausberg Area
The Lausberg area is a part of southern Italy that covers much of Basilicata and the northern edge of Calabria. In it are found Southern Italian dialects characterized by vowel developments that are atypical for Italo-Romance languages. It is named after the German philologist Heinrich Lausberg, who brought the area to the attention of mainstream scholarship in 1939. Stressed vowel outcomes There are three main subdivisions, as can be seen on the map to the upper right. Romanian-like Dubbed the ''Vorposten'' ('outpost') by Lausberg, this area encompasses the towns of Castelmezzano, Potenza, and Picerno; here the Latin vowel /i/ merged with /eː/, while /u/ merged with /uː/. The same asymmetric vowel development characterizes Balkan Romance languages such as Romanian. Unlike them, the dialects of the ''Vorposten'' proceeded to merge the outcome of Latin /e/ with the combined outcome of /i/ and /eː/. Transitional The western part of Lausberg's ''Mittelzone'' ('mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamante, Calabria
Diamante ("diamond"; Calabrian: ) is a coastal town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza, part of the Calabria region of southern Italy. The Diamante citron takes its name from the town, and Calabria is still the home of this variety of citron. Chili Peppers Festival Each year in early September Diamante hosts festival celebrating the local produce, peperoncino (chili pepper). Among the other products one can find the Calabrese Bomba made from as dried strings of chili peppers which have been infused into olive oil and mixed with other vegetables and mushrooms. The festival is a major event for the small town as it attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world. It lasts for a full week and each day there are several events including famous plays performances, folk dances, speeches by important figures, chili eating challenges and cartoon drawing challenge. Every year they organise special events, such as the exposition of samples of chili peppers from al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noepoli
Noepoli is a ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. This ancient Lucanian village is situated in the Sarmento Valley, at the heart of the Pollino National Park. History Originally an Onotrio- Lucanian centre from the 8th to the 4th century BC, the village took on the name of Noia during the medieval period when it became a centre of learning for Greek Basilian monks. With the advent of the Normans during the 11th century, Noepoli became a Lordship of Count Alessandro of Chiaromonte as testified in a document which ratifies his donation from the S. Onofrio Monastery to the Cersosimo Church (1093). In 1404, it became an autonomous fief A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form ..., but under the Aragonese it passed to the Del Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelluccio Inferiore
Castelluccio Inferiore ( Lucano: ) is a town and ''comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. References Cities and towns in Basilicata {{Basilicata-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliano
Aliano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Matera, which is located about southwest of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Aliano was the setting of Carlo Levi's book ''Christ Stopped at Eboli'' (Italian: ''Cristo si è fermato a Eboli''), where the town is called ''Gagliano'' according to the local pronunciation. Published in 1945, it gives an account of his exile in 1935–1936 in Aliano. Like many towns in rural Italy it has suffered from migration to the cities and overseas where employment opportunities are better. Geography Aliano is located atop '' calanchi'', which are deforested, sandy soiled, rocky hills. Over the town's history, many homes were lost to landslides resulting from deforestation. In 1980 an earthquake shook the region and destroyed or made uninhabitable many of the town's historic buildings. Recent funding, partly from the European Union, has made renovations possible, and parts of the town's historic centre are once again hab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Chirico Raparo
San Chirico Raparo is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata it, Lucano (man) it, Lucana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = .... References Cities and towns in Basilicata {{Basilicata-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntactic Gemination
Syntactic gemination, or syntactic doubling, is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian, other Romance languages spoken in Italy, and Finnish. It consists in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant in certain contexts. It may also be called word-initial gemination or phonosyntactic consonantal gemination. In Italian it is called ''raddoppiamento sintattico (RS), raddoppiamento fonosintattico (RF), raddoppiamento iniziale,'' or ''rafforzamento iniziale (della consonante).'' Italian "Syntactic" means that gemination spans word boundaries, as opposed to word-internal geminate consonants as in "cat" or "year". In Standard Italian, syntactic doubling occurs after the following words (with exceptions described below): *all stressed ("strong") monosyllables (''monosillabi forti'') and some unstressed ("weak") monosyllables (''monosillabi deboli''): ''a'', ''blu'', ''che'', ''ché'', ''chi'', ''ciò'', ''da'', ''dà'', ''dì'', ''do'', ''e'', ''è'', ''fa'', ''fra'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaphony (Romance Languages)
In the Romance languages, metaphony was an early vowel mutation process that operated in all Romance languages to varying degrees, raising (or sometimes diphthongizing) certain stressed vowels in words with a final or or a directly following . This is conceptually similar to the umlaut process so characteristic of the Germanic languages. Metaphony is most extensive in the Italo-Romance languages, and applies to nearly all languages of Italy. However, it is absent from Tuscan, and hence from Standard Italian. Italo-Romance languages Metaphony in central and southern Italo-Romance (i.e. excluding Tuscan) affects stressed mid-vowels if the following syllable contains or . As a general rule, the high-mids are raised to , and the low-mids are raised to or diphthongized to . Metaphony is not triggered by final . The main occurrences of final are as follows: * The plural of nouns in ''-o'' ( pre-PWR > PWR > Old Spanish ''veínte'' (> modern ''veinte'' ), Old Portuguese '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriolo
Oriolo is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is a member of the I Borghi più belli d'Italia I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest, that was founded in March 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the , with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality herit ... ("The most beautiful villages of Italy") association. References Cities and towns in Calabria Borghi più belli d'Italia {{Calabria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tursi
Tursi ( Tursitano: ; grc, Θυρσοί, translit=Thursoí; la, Tursium) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. History In the 9th century it was a stronghold of the Saracens in southern Italy. In 968, Tursi became the capital of the Byzantine theme of Lucania and the seat of the bishop was transferred there from Anglona. Anglona Within the present municipality of Tursi there was a Greek colony called Pandosia, inland from the younger and more powerful Greek colony of Heraclea, so that it was in vicinity of Pandosia that what is known as the Battle of Heraclea was fought in 280 BC. It was destroyed in the Social War (90–88 BC).Rocco Bruno, ''Tursi, immagini di un secolo'', Matera, graficom, 2005, p. 14 The town of Anglona later arose on its ruins, the first documentary evidence of the name being of the year 747: ''locus qui dicitur Anglonum''. In 410 it was destroyed by the troops of Alaric I, and in the 9th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senise
Senise is a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, southern Italy. It is near Monte Cotugno Lake, one of the largest artificial basins in Europe. Twin towns * Busto Garolfo Busto Garolfo ( Lombard: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan of 13 978 inhabitants. Busto Garolfo is located in the Italian region Lombardy, placed about northwest of Milan. Toponymy In the local dialect, belong ..., Italy References External links * Cities and towns in Basilicata {{Basilicata-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
