{"product_id":"9781487590475","title":"Tuscan and Etruscan: The problem of linguistic substratum influence in central Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the 'foreign accent' with which the ancient Etruscans must have spoken Latin when Rome first began to extend its power and language over the rest of Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Izzo has undertaken a new and thorough investigation of modern Tuscan pronunciation, disproving this hypothesis and providing a definitive conclusion to the debate. He delineates clearly the errors in reasoning of those who trace the Tuscan pronunciation to an Etruscan influence, and presents his conclusions objectively.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study will interest Romance linguists, especially historians of the Italian language; but it will also interest historical linguists in general, for by disproving one of the most plausible and best-documented cases of alleged substratum influence, it casts doubt on many other cases where such influence has been claimed with little evidence. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173581013232,"sku":"9781487590475","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487590475_p0.jpg?v=1763636138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487590475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}