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CONTENTS

 

Foreword to The Early History of the Rumanian language, 1977,
by Robert A. Hall Jr., Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Italian; Cornell University

Foreword by Adam Makkai, Professor of Linguistics, University of
Illinois at Chicago: A Note on the Importance of Phonemic Change
and Etymology: Language as an Eco-system

Introduction

 

Chapter I: HISTORY

 
A. The populations of southeastern Europe before the Roman colonization
B. The Roman colonization
C. The Albanians
D. The Slavs

1.The migrations of the Slavs to the Balkan peninsula
2. The placenames and the names of rivers and streams in the former Balkan provinces
3. Bulgaria from the foundation of the Bulgarian state to the 13th century
    a) The first Bulgarian Empire
    b) The VlachoBBulgarian Empire
E. The Vlachs
1. Records in deeds of gift from Serbian monasteries
2. Placenames and personal names of Vlach origin
3. The Northern Rumanian influence on Serbian dialects
4. The ages of the Vlach settlements in the Balkan peninsula
5. The migrations of the early Vlachs
6. Documents on the symbosis between Vlachs and Albanians

 

Chapter II: FROM LATIN TO RUMANIAN

 
A. The innovations of Latin in the 1st - 3rd centuries
B. The innovations of Late Latin (4th - 7th centuries)
C. Features shared by Italian dialects and Rumanian
D. East Latin

1. The period and the frontiers
2. The features of East Latin
E. The question of the substratum
F. The relationship between Rumanian and Albanian
G. The relationship between Rumanian and Dalmatian
H. The Balkan Linguistic Union
I. The Greek influence upon Rumanian
J. The contacts of Rumanian with South Slavic
1. A chronological survey of the South Slavic influence
2. The South Slavic influence
3. The Rumanian influence on Bulgarian
K. The Rumanian religious terminology
L. Common Rumanian (româna comun|)
M. The dialects of the Rumanian language
1. The four dialects
2. The sub-dialects of Northern Rumanian
N. The way of life of the early Rumanians as reflected by their language
O. The migrations of the Vlachs outside the Balkan peninsula
 

Chapter III: THE THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUMANIAN NORTH OF THE DANUBE

 

A. Introduction
B. The theory of continuity in modern times
C. History

1. The arguments in favour of Romanization north of the Danube
2. The abandonment of Dacia by the Romans
3. The Asilence of historians@
4. The nature of contacts across the lower Danube in the 4thB6th centuries
5. The Gesta Hungarorum
D. The archaeological finds in post-Roman Dacia Traiana
1. Settlements
2. Cemeteries
3. Objects of Christian character in post-Roman Dacia
4. Roman coins found in post-Roman Dacia
5. The Latin inscriptions
E. The Rumanian language
1. The theory of core areas
2. Other linguistic arguments in favour of the theory of continuity
3. Other elements of the Rumanian language from the viewpoint of the theory of continuity
4. The absence of Old Germanic elements in Rumanian
5. About the Balkan Linguistic Union
6. Explanations of the lack of inherited Latin placenames and geographical names
 

Chapter IV: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE THEORY OF CONTINUITY

A. A survey of opinions of Western scholars about the theory of continuity
B. Inconsistencies
C. History

1. The Roman colonization of Dacia Traiana
2. The abandonment of Dacia by the Romans
3. The Asilence of historians@
4. The question of contact across the Danube
5. The Gesta Hungarorum
D. The archaeological finds
1. The influence of the Roman material culture in Europe
2. The material remains in post-Roman Dacia Traiana 3
     I. The question of Daco-Romans
     a) Settlements
     b) Cemeteries
     c) Objects of Christian character
     d) Roman coins
     e) The Latin inscriptions
     II. Indications of demographic discontinuity
     a) The towns
     b) Rural settlements
     c) Cemeteries
     III. The 5th - 7th centuries
     a) The theory of the flight to the mountains and the absence of Daco-Romans
E. The Rumanian language
1. The theory of core areas
2. Other linguistic arguments
     a) The sound pattern of Slavic influence on Rumanian
     b) The Rumanian religous terminology
     c) The time span of the Slavic influence
     d) The territory of the Slavo-Rumanian symbiosis
3. The absence of Old Germanic elements
4. Placenames and geographical names
     a) The hypothesis of ancient placenames preserved to our days
     b) The names of the great rivers in Transylvania
    c) The significance of the absence of inherited Latin names
    d) The significance of the sound pattern of the placenames of Slavic origin
    e) The theory of the flight to the mountains and the absence of geographical names of Latin origin
5. The testimony of the Rumanian dialects
The absence of a Transylvanian subdialect

Chapter V: CONCLUSONS

 
1. The Late Latin developments, Balkan Latin, and the concordances with Italian dialects
2. The correspondences between Rumanian and Albanian
3. The territory of the ancient Albanians
4. The significance of the Balkan Linguistic Union

 

Chapter VI: THE POPULATIONS NORTH OF THE LOWER DANUBE IN THE 4th TO THE 13th CENTURIES

 
1. The Dacians, Carps, Sarmatians, Goths, Huns, Gepidae, and Avars

a) The free Dacians and the Carps
b) The Sarmatians
c) The Goths
d) The Huns
e) The Gepidae
f) The Avars
2. The Slavs
a) The Slavs in the extra-Carpathian regions
b) The Slavs in Transylvania
c) The Bulgarian domination in southernTransylvania
d) The question of non-Slavic remains from the Slavic period
e) The Slavs and the placenames of Rumania
f) Ancient names of rivers
3. The Hungarians in Transylvania and in the Banat
a) History
b) Archaeology
c) Placenames
4. The extra-Carpathian areas in the 10thB13th centuries
a) The Petchenegs
b) The Cumans
Vestiges of the Cuman language in Rumania
5. The first records on Vlachs north of the lower Danube
The first Vlach principalities
 

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