RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 En torno al dialecto de Acaya y sus colonias en la Magna Grecia (A proposito de un reciente libro de Alberto Giacomelli) A1 Méndez Dosuna, Julián Víctor A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología clásica AB A book by A. Giacomelli provides occasion for this review-article where recent dialectological research on the inscriptions of Achaean colonies in Magna Graecia is critically surveyed. The problems addressed include some idiosyncratic uses of and , linguistic contact in Magna Graecia (pre-Achaean remnants, convergence, Doric Koiná), nom. H(έ)ρακλες, etc. Special attention is paid to the debate of whether the Achaean dialect originally belonged in the Doris mitior with a system of seven long vowels, as the evidence furnished by recent inscriptions in Peloponnesian Achaea seems to suggest, or -to judge from the scanty data available for the colonies- in the Doris severior with only five long vowels. Contrary to current opinion, it is the mother city which must have preserved the original situation. SN 2530-6480 YR 1991 FD 1991 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/35832 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/35832 LA spa NO Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica; Núm. 5 (1991) pags. 27-56 DS UVaDOC RD 29-abr-2024