This work is a comprehensive corpus-based description of the synchronic segmental phonology of Classical Latin.

• Provides a full description of the phonology of a dead language and also highlights how the patterns and processes described contribute to phonological theory
• Research results include novel analyses of segmental phenomena, phonotactics, phonological processes, inflectional morphology, and certain diachronic questions
• Informed by specific hypotheses about how phonological representations are structured and how phonological rules work, and in turn how the findings corroborate these hypotheses
• Theoretically grounded and provides raw material for researchers of phonology, morphology and historical linguistics

András Cser teaches linguistics at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Besides Latin phonology, he has published on phonological theory, morphology, diachronic linguistics and the history of linguistics (Hungarian as well as European). His works include The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition and Fortition Processes (2003). He is the editor of Acta Linguistica Academica.