Marco Mancini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marco Mancini is involved.

Article

Mancini, Marco 2019 Chapter 2. The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of vowel quantity Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 27–56 | Chapter

This paper aims to demonstrate the caveats called for in the reconstruction of the so-called quantity collapse from Late Latin to Pre-Romance. The Uniformitarian Principle does not necessarily require the inspection and explanation of “bad data”. The past, in other words, is not always aligned… read more