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Lack of Syncope in Portuguese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

K. S. Roberts
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Ephraim Cross
Affiliation:
The College of the City of New York

Abstract

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Type
Comment and Criticism
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1940

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References

1 E. Cross, Syncope and Kindred Phenomena in Latin Inscriptions (New York, 1930).

2 C. H. Grandgent, An Introduction to Vulgar Latin, pp. 233–239.

3 K. Nyrop, Grammaire historique de la langue française, 2nd ed. (Copenhagen, 1904), i, §146, 258, 259.

R. Menéndez Pidal, Manual de Grammâlica Histórica Española, 5th ed. (Madrid, 1925), §25, 26.

4 E. B. Wilhams, From Latin to Portuguese (Philadelphia, 1938), pp. 52–53— Cf. Groeber's Grundriss der romanischen Philologie (2d ed.), i, 957, §107.

5 Note that, although povo and pueblo are both dissyllabic, the Portuguese word is dissyllabic because of contraction and and the Spanish word because of syncope.