La geminazione di s- preconsonantica nella koinè scrittoria latino greca. Dati empirici e aspetti teorici
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Date Issued
2025
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conferenceObject
Abstract
This paper focuses on a phenomenon of the Latin-Greek
writing koine, which has been given marginal space in the literature so far, namely the geminatio of the preconsonantal sibilant. A quantitative analysis aimed at illustrating the distribution of the phenomenon in the two writing traditions is conducted in § 2: a higher frequency of the phenomenon in the Greek documentation is observed, in both absolute and relative terms, and over a longer chronological span. In § 3, we explore the grapho-phonological value to attribute to this divergent spelling. The literature has pointed out that the phenomenon under investigation must be related to the tendency to heterosyllabification of the sC cluster. In this framework, other well-documented phenomena in the epigraphic-papyraceous tradition are analyzed, i.e., syllabic division of the and types and
the prosthetic vowel. Then, the analysis aims to emphasize how this
spelling may be interpreted as a spelling strategy that signals the
overlap between two principles of syllabic division, a phonological
and a morpho-lexical one.
writing koine, which has been given marginal space in the literature so far, namely the geminatio of the preconsonantal sibilant. A quantitative analysis aimed at illustrating the distribution of the phenomenon in the two writing traditions is conducted in § 2: a higher frequency of the phenomenon in the Greek documentation is observed, in both absolute and relative terms, and over a longer chronological span. In § 3, we explore the grapho-phonological value to attribute to this divergent spelling. The literature has pointed out that the phenomenon under investigation must be related to the tendency to heterosyllabification of the sC cluster. In this framework, other well-documented phenomena in the epigraphic-papyraceous tradition are analyzed, i.e., syllabic division of the