Sievers' law and the history of semivowel syllabicity in Indo-European and ancient Greek / P.J. Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, P. J.

Series:

Oxford Classical Monographs

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages--Phonetics.

Indo-European languages.

Greek language--Phonetics.

Greek language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text is an investigation of how semivowels were realised in Indo-European and in early Greek. It examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Greek.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part I Evidence for Sievers� Law and the Possibility of Inheritance""; ""2 Sievers� Law: Gothic and Vedic""; ""2.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2. EVIDENCE FOR SIEVERS� LAW IN GOTHIC""; ""2.2.1. Alternation in Verbal Forms""; ""2.2.2. Explaining these Alternations""; ""2.2.3. Sievers� Law in Nominal Stems""; ""2.2.4. Gothic Exceptions""; ""2.2.5. Diachronic Problems""; ""2.2.6. Synchronic Rules in Germanic""; ""2.2.7. An Inherited Constraint?""; ""2.3. THE VEDIC PARALLEL""

""2.3.1. Metrical Evidence""""2.3.2. Vedic Exceptions""; ""2.3.3. A Converse of Sievers� Law in Vedic?""; ""2.3.4. The Weight of Laryngeals and Obstruents""; ""2.3.5. Conclusions from the Vedic Evidence""; ""2.4. FURTHER COMPARATIVE COMPLICATIONS""; ""2.4.1. Sequences of Syllables""; ""2.4.2. Effect of the Stem-final Consonant""; ""2.4.3. Alternation in Other Resonants?""; ""2.5. THE PROSPECT OF COMPARISON""; ""2.6. INDO-EUROPEAN CONSTRAINTS?""; ""2.7. EVIDENCE FOR WORD-INITIAL ALTERNATIONS""; ""2.7.1. Edgerton�s Extensions of Sievers� Law""; ""2.7.2. Lindeman�s Law""

""2.7.3. Some Exceptions to Lindeman�s Law""""2.7.4. Do We Need a Schindler�s Law?""; ""2.7.5. Lindeman�s Law and Laryngeals""; ""2.7.6. A Note on *CHTR- Clusters""; ""2.8. PROBLEMS WITH LINDEMAN�S LAW""; ""2.8.1. Theoretical Issues""; ""2.8.2. The Observations of Sihler, Horowitz, and Atkins""; ""2.9. EXPLORING THE MONOSYLLABICITY CRITERION""; ""2.9.1. Distributional Peculiarities""; ""2.9.2. A More General Phenomenon?""; ""2.9.3. Formulaic Patterns""; ""2.9.4. Conclusions on the Monosyllabicity Criterion""; ""2.10. CONCLUSIONS""; ""3 Chronology and Inheritance""

""3.1. INTRODUCTION""""3.1.1. The Possibility of Inheritance""; ""3.1.2. Evidence for Sievers� Law in Greek?""; ""3.1.3. Destructive Influences""; ""3.1.4. Organization of this Chapter""; ""3.2. THE RISE AND FALL OF *i AND *y""; ""3.3. SECONDARY *i AND LARYNGEAL LOSS""; ""3.3.1. The Loss of Intervocalic Laryngeals""; ""3.3.2. Roots with *CiH-""; ""3.3.3. Nominal *-iHe/o-""; ""3.3.4. Optative Formations""; ""3.3.5. Conclusions""; ""3.4. EVIDENCE FOR INHERITED *y""; ""3.4.1. Palatalization and the Loss of *y""; ""3.5. THE BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY *y""

""3.5.1. Secondary *y from Word-final *-iH2 and *-iH1""""3.5.2. Secondary *y from Word-internal *-iH-?""; ""3.5.3. Devocalization at Morpheme Boundaries: A Converse of Sievers� Law in Greek?""; ""3.5.4. Dialectal Developments""; ""3.5.5. Assibilation""; ""3.5.6. Conclusions on Secondary *y in Greek""; ""3.6. POINTS OF CHRONOLOGY""; ""3.6.1. Sievers� Law and the Synchronic Grammar""; ""3.6.2. Sievers� Law and the Palatalization of Stops""; ""3.6.3. The Palatalization of Resonants""; ""3.6.4. Sievers� Law and Secondary *y""; ""3.6.5. Conclusions""; ""3.7. PHONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS""

""3.7.1. The Loss of *-sy- after Vowels""

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ISBN:

0-19-176052-8

0-19-150186-7

OCLC:

864912900