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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
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Chapter 22
Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space

From Latin lucanĭca to Italo-Albanian lëkëngë

| University of Calabria

This contribution presents a case study in the intricate diachronic and synchronic interrelations between languages in the Italian and Balkan linguistic spaces. Words related to Latin lucanica (‘type of sausage’) are investigated and hypotheses on their pattern of diffusion are surveyed and discussed. Among other points, the contribution touches on the etymology of lucanica itself, the intermediation role of Byzantine Greek, the multiple outcomes of the word in the Romanian group, its present-day distribution in Italo-Romance and Arbëresh dialects.

Keywords: Albanian dialectology, Balkan linguistic space, food lexicon, lexical diffusion, loanwords
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Attestations of the lemma in the Italic and Balkan linguistic space
  • 3.History and current distribution of the lemma
  • Acknowledgment
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2018
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