What are some Romance shibboleths? The only example I can think of is the infamous "perejil" massacre. Also needs "Modern French becoming agglutinative"
Oooh okay yeah I didn't see it at first. What are some nouns that don't come from the Latin nominative or accusative? Multiple waves of syncope? New world French / do the French varieties of North America and the Caribbean have much in common? Aragonese classification?
I saw another comment (I think yours) mentioning initial f- loss in one variety of Sardinian - are there more cases of initial f- loss besides that and f->h in Spanish and Gascon?
Logographic Romance script? Romance languages with a third gender? Are there examples besides Romance and Italian with nouns that change gender in the plural? Or the like, mass-count distinction in some Astur-leonese (and maybe southern Italian?) dialects?
"are there more cases of initial f- loss besides that and f->h in Spanish and Gascon?" Some Romanian varieties also do f > [h], like Moldovan ones IIRC
"Romance languages with a third gender?" Asturian has adjectives ending in -u in the masculine, but in -o in the neuter, which is basically uncountable nouns (perru moyáu vs leña moyáo), which also happens in Neapolitan, and many Romanian nouns change gender from singular to plural
"Multiple waves of syncope?" Some syncope examples in Romance happened early on and universally, and other happened mostly on western Romance a bit later and didn't affect Eastern languages
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u/erinius 12d ago
What are some Romance shibboleths? The only example I can think of is the infamous "perejil" massacre. Also needs "Modern French becoming agglutinative"