From: alex
Message: 24329
Date: 2003-07-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:I have the feeling you don't want to let the thread close:-)))
>
>> As for South Italian development I will mention just the keyword
>> Ausones.
>
> This is not a keyword. At least Rohlfs says clearly: "Nell'Italia
> meridionale l'occlusione labiale della /p/ è stata sostituita [...]
> da una occlusione velare (/k/), condizionata evidentemente nello
> stadio /pl'/ dalla natura palatale della /l'/ seguente, in seguito
> alla assimilazione parziale". There is no "Ausones" in the phrase.
> OTOH, further developments of the same /ky/ are to be found also
> in Northern Italian dialects, as you should have already noticed
> from some previous posts of mine. So "Ausones" it's just a word
> dropped by you in a unrelated sentence.
>
> Marius Iacomi