Man, Family, Society: Semantic Shifts from Latin to Romance Languages

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of some semantic shifts from Latin to Romance languages and in Romance languages per se in lexemes denominating kinship ties and age of a person in the Italo-Romanic area. The article reviews formation of meaning of words denoting a child. in Italian and Italian dialects with due consideration of Romance parallels.

About the authors

I I Chelysheva

Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: crusca@list.ru
Department of Indo-European languages

References

  1. DHLF - Dictionnaire historique de la langue française. Sous la direction d’A. Rey. Vol. 1. A-E. - Paris, 2000.
  2. TLIO - Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini. URL: http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it.
  3. ALI - Atlante linguistico italiano. - Vol. VII. - Torino, 2008. - Carte 615-724.
  4. LEI - Lessico etimologico italiano. URL: http://woerterbuchnetz.de/LEI.
  5. Pellegrini G.B. Gli arabismi nelle lingue neolatine con speciale riguardo all’Italia. Brescia, 1972.
  6. Vasconcelos J. Leite de. Etnografia Portuguesa. Tentame de sistematização. Livro III. Vida tradicional portuguesa (o indivíduo, a família, a sociedade. Vol. V. Lisboa, 1967.

Copyright (c) 2014 Chelysheva I.I.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies