The general lines of ''
diachronics'' of
Lombard and
Piedmontese
Piedmontese (; autonym: or , in it, piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, northwestern region of Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly reg ...
plural declension are drawn here:
Feminine
In Lombard and Piedmontese, feminine plural is generally derived from Latin first declension accusative -as; nouns from other classes first collapsed there; some concrete realisations are:
*-as > -a
*-as > -es > -e
*-as > -es > -ei > -i
*-as > -es > -ei > -i > -e
*-as > -es > -ei > -i > -∅
Masculine
On the contrary, masculine plural is generally derived from Latin second declension nominative -i; this
suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carr ...
eventually drops or
gives rise to palatalisation or metaphonesis; some concrete realisations are:
*-li > -lj > -gl > -j
*-ni > -nj > -gn
*-ti > -tj > -cc
*
Metaphonesis (in regression) : orti > öört;
*Neutralisation: -i > -∅
See also
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Western Lombard
Western Lombard is a group of dialects of Lombard, a Romance language spoken in Italy. It is widespread in the Lombard provinces of Milan, Monza, Varese, Como, Lecco, Sondrio, a small part of Cremona (except Crema and its neighbours), ...
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Eastern Lombard
Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are Be ...
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Piedmontese
Piedmontese (; autonym: or , in it, piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, northwestern region of Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly reg ...
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Romance plurals
References
*G.Hull: the linguistic unity of Northern Italy and Rhaetia, PhD thesis, University of Sydney West (1982)
*E.Banfi, G.Bonfadini, P.Cordin, M.Iliescu: Italia Settentrionale: Crocevia di idiomi Romanzi, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Trent 21-23 Ottobre 1993 Niemayer, Tübingen, 1995
Lombard language
Piedmontese language
Grammatical number
Romance languages
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