The Sabellic accusative plural endings and the outcome of the Indo-European sibilants in Italic

Abstract

This work aims to clarify the phonetics and phonology of sibilants and sibilant clusters in the Italic languages, and will specifically attend to the outcomes of /ns/ and /rs/ in different positions. The structure and meaning of a number of Sabellic words and sentences will be reanalysed and reinterpreted, with a special focus on Oscan and one of its dialects, Marrucinian. An appendix containing a novel interpretation of the new «Opic» inscription of Niumsis Tanunis is included.