This work is a comprehensive corpus-based description of the synchronic
segmental phonology of Classical Latin.
- Provides a full description of the phonology of a dead language and
also highlights how the patterns and processes described contribute to
phonological theory
- Research results include novel analyses of segmental phenomena,
phonotactics, phonological processes, inflectional morphology, and
certain diachronic questions
- Informed by specific hypotheses about how phonological representations
are structured and how phonological rules work, and in turn how the
findings corroborate these hypotheses
- Theoretically grounded and provides raw material for researchers of
phonology, morphology and historical linguistics