Bücher von Paul A. Gaeng

Offers data to expand our knowledge of Vulgar Latin culled from the vocalism of Latin Christian inscriptions found in those areas of the Western Roman world where Romance speech developed, and to shed some light on the controversial issue as to whether linguistic features that differentiate Romance languages and dialects correspond to dialectal differences already in existence.

This exhaustive morpho-syntactic analysis of Latin nominal declensions, as found in Christian funerary inscriptions from the Roman Empire, seeks to establish the extent to which this inscribed material reflects the period's linguistic evolution: from classical Latin's multi-case structure to the one-case system of Western Romance Languages.