Balto Slavic Accentual Mobility

Author : Thomas Olander
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110213355

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Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility by Thomas Olander Pdf

Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like golová 'head', acc. gólovu, gen. golový, dat. golové etc.? How come we find similar alternations in other Slavic languages and in a Baltic language like Lithuanian? The quest for the origin of the so-called "mobile accent paradigms" of Baltic and Slavic leads the reader through other Indo-European language branches such as Indo-Iranian, Greek and Germanic, all of which are relevant to the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European accentuation system. After the examination of the evidence for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European accentuation system, focus is moved to the Baltic and Slavic accentuation systems and their relationship to each other and to Proto-Indo-European. A comprehensive history of research and numerous bibliographical references to earlier pieces of scholarship throughout the book make it a useful tool for anybody who is interested in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European accentology. Written in a simple style and constantly aiming at presenting old and new opinions on the various problems, the volume may serve as an introduction to this complicated field.

Author : Jay Jasanoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004346109

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The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent by Jay Jasanoff Pdf

In The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent Jay Jasanoff offers a much-needed guide to the accentual changes that set Baltic and Slavic apart from the rest of the Indo-European family.

Author : Miguel Villanueva Svensson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004682719

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The Rise of Acuteness in Balto-Slavic by Miguel Villanueva Svensson Pdf

The development of the prosodic system from Indo-European to Balto-Slavic is dominated by two major innovations: the rise of mobility and the rise of acuteness. This book provides a new account of the latter. It stands out from previous works for being informed by recent advances in phonological typology and tonogenesis and, especially, for its comprehensiveness. All matters related to the rise of acuteness are treated in detail. As a result, the book includes new insights on several issues of Balto-Slavic historical phonology and morphology as well.

Author : Frederik Kortlandt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401200608

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Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics by Frederik Kortlandt Pdf

The larger part of the present volume is about Slavic historical linguistics while the second part is about more general issues and methodological aspects. The initial chapters contain a revision of the author’s Slavic Accentuation and a discussion of the Slovene evidence for the Late Proto-Slavic accentual system and of the Kiev Leaflets. These are complemented by an extensive review of Garde’s theory and an introductory article about the work of earlier authors for those who are unfamiliar with the subject. Then follows a discussion of changes in the vowel system, Bulgarian developments, final syllables in Slavic, early changes in the consonant system, and of Halle and Kiparsky’s review of Garde’s book. This results in a relative chronology of 70 stages from Proto-Indo-European to Slavic. The following chapters deal with the progressive palatalization, the accentuation of West and South Slavic languages, various aspects of the Old Slovene manuscripts, the chronology of nominal paradigms, and other issues under discussion in recent publications. The second part of the present volume contains a number of case studies exemplifying specific theoretical problems, most of them of a semantic nature. The synchronic studies deal with Russian and Japanese syntax and semantics, the diachronic studies with tonogenesis in different languages and with semantic reconstruction in Altaic and Chinese.

Author : Rick Derksen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9051839901

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Metatony in Baltic by Rick Derksen Pdf

During the past decades Balto-Slavic accentology has become increasingly important for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. This study tries to provide an explanation for the phenomenon of metatony in Baltic, i.e. the phenomenon that in certain Baltic forms a morpheme shows the reflex of the Balto-Slavic circumflex intonation where we would expect the reflex of the acute intonation (métatonie douce) or vice versa (métatonie rude). The subject necessarily involves an inquiry into the origin of the Lithuanian and Latvian tone systems. Furthermore, it requires the assessment of a large number of etymologies. In the final chapter of the book, the developments which are considered to be relevant to the rise of metatony are incorporated into a relative chronology. The investigation is based on a comprehensive collection of data, including evidence from Lithuanian and Latvian dialects and Old Lithuanian. In comparison with earlier studies on the subject, the Latvian evidence plays an essential role. This book tries to demonstrate that the value of Latvian data for Balto-Slavic accentology has hitherto not been fully recognized.

Author : Lars Heltoft,Iván Igartua,Brian D. Joseph,Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh,Lene Schøsler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262639

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Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change by Lars Heltoft,Iván Igartua,Brian D. Joseph,Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh,Lene Schøsler Pdf

This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

Author : Thomas Olander,Paul Widmer,Götz Keydana
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788763540438

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Indo-European Accent and Ablaut by Thomas Olander,Paul Widmer,Götz Keydana Pdf

Ablaut, the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found in e.g. English sing vs. sang vs. sung, is one of the most characteristic features of the Indo-European languages. The different ablaut grades seem to be related to the position of the accent in Proto-Indo-European. A good understanding of the relationship between accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European requires thorough analyses of the role played by the two phenomena in the Indo-European daughter languages.

The aim of the volume is to present the state of the art in current work on accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages. The contributors analyze the interplay between accent and ablaut with attention both to theoretical aspects and to the specific linguistic material. Presenting up-to-date overviews of the models developed by various schools of thought, the contributors discuss a wide array of empirical as well as methodological problems, thus opening up vistas for further research.

Author : Roman Sukac
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443863360

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Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and Balto-Slavic Accentology by Roman Sukac Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Proto-Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic accentology; a branch of diachronic linguistics dealing with the development of syllable stress, intonation, and quantity at the word level. Of particular interest in the book is its detailed summary of the major approaches and solutions to accentology of the last thirty years. Furthermore, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on accentuation of the Indo-European proto-language and the accentuation of Balto-Slavic languages. Such research is integral to our knowledge of how accentual patterns developed from the reconstructed proto-language to the modern Indo-European languages.

Author : Barentsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004654068

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Studies in West Slavic and Baltic Linguistics by Barentsen Pdf

Author : Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9042026529

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Baltica & Balto-Slavica by Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt Pdf

This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter's law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/jā stems, and thematic and athematic present endings. The second half of the book contains a comparative analysis of the three Prussian catechisms, resulting in the conclusion that they represent three consecutive stages of a real linguistic system. It includes a discussion of the Prussian accent shift, initial vowels, diphthongs, infinitives, verb classes, participles and traces of ablauting paradigms. The final part of the book offers a full linguistic interpretation of the three Prussian catechisms on the basis of the preceding chapters, followed by a list of references and a word index. The book is of interest to Balticists, Slavicists, Indo-Europeanists, and other historical linguists.

Author : Thomas Olander
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9004270493

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Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology by Thomas Olander Pdf

In this volume, Thomas Olander offers a historical analysis of the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic, comparing them with the corresponding endings in related languages and reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European point of departure.

Author : Alexander Lubotsky,J. Schaeken,Jeroen Wiedenhof
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9789042024700

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Evidence and Counter-evidence: Balto-Slavic and Indo-European linguistics by Alexander Lubotsky,J. Schaeken,Jeroen Wiedenhof Pdf

Author : Frederik Kortlandt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042026537

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Baltica & Balto-Slavica by Frederik Kortlandt Pdf

This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter’s law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/jā stems, and thematic and athematic present endings. The second half of the book contains a comparative analysis of the three Prussian catechisms, resulting in the conclusion that they represent three consecutive stages of a real linguistic system. It includes a discussion of the Prussian accent shift, initial vowels, diphthongs, infinitives, verb classes, participles and traces of ablauting paradigms. The final part of the book offers a full linguistic interpretation of the three Prussian catechisms on the basis of the preceding chapters, followed by a list of references and a word index. The book is of interest to Balticists, Slavicists, Indo-Europeanists, and other historical linguists.

Author : Joe Salmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134879373

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Accentual Change and Language Contact by Joe Salmons Pdf

The author presents an original proposal for a shared Celtic-Germanic accentual system, which has fundamental implications for Proto-Germanic.

Author : Edward Stankiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015029529081

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The Accentual Patterns of the Slavic Languages by Edward Stankiewicz Pdf

"Accent is one of the most vexing problems in Slavic linguistics, and it has given rise to diverse schools of thought particularly in the area of historical reconstruction. Based on almost three decades of research, this monumental work is the first systematic description of the accentual patterns of all the Slavic languages with mobile stress: Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorossian, and Slovincian." "In addition, it pursues two supplementary, but by no means less significant, goals - to interpret the historical development of the accentual patterns and to make a typological comparison of their similarities and differences. This book differs from previous studies of the accentuation of the individual Slavic languages in both method and scope. Its consistent morphophonemic approach distinguishes automatic and nonautomatic alternations and emphasizes the role of the latter in the expression of Slavic grammatical categories and the various parts of speech." "Although the author's general approach is synchronic, it does not diminish the importance of the historical-comparative method, but gives it additional strength by placing the historic interpretation of Slavic accentual patterns on a solid descriptive base. Although Slavic accentology has been largely treated as an exemplar of historical reconstruction, the results have been clouded by controversy and doubt. This state of affairs is partly due to the scarcity of historical records, but even more to the lack of systematic and exhaustive descriptions of the contemporary accentual patterns. This book intends to fill that gap and to show to what extent these patterns continue to resemble one another in the midst of diversity and despite a long history of accentual change." "The historical sections and comments accompanying the synchronic descriptions are designed to trace the development of the accentual patterns from Common Slavic up to the modern period. The author touches on the basic properties of the Common Slavic accentual system, arguing that its overall design can be determined within the framework of Common Slavic rather than with reference to a Balto-Slavic accentuation which is modeled on that of Lithuanian."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved