Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic Languages | Historical Linguistics Book for Scholars & Students | Perfect for Research, Academia & Language Studies

This book presents an exhaustive treatment of a long-standing problem of Proto-Indo-European and Italic philology: the development of the Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirates in the ancient languages of Italy. In so doing it tackles a central issue of historical linguistics: the plausibility of explanations for sound change.