The Sound of Indo-European

by Whitehead, Benedicte Nielsen; Olander, Thomas; Olsen, Birgit Anette; Rasmussen, Jens Elmegard

• ISBN13: 9788763538381
• ISBN10: 8763538385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum

Summary

One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European phonology, The Sound of Indo-European brings together leading linguists working in Indo-European studies to examine both the broadest definitions of the group-from minute phonetics to abstract levels of phonemics centering on all varieties of Indo-European-and individual branches, with contributions on Celtic, Anatolian, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Italic, Armenian, and even Euphratic.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Indo-European laryngeals in the light of Afroasiatic	p. 1
The etymology of Nordic kuna 'woman'	p. 27
Predicting Indo-European syllabification through phonotactic analysis	p. 33
A new sound law of PIE: Initial **h3u > *h2u	p. 53
The fate of PIE final *-r in Vedic and Latin	p. 73
Phonologische und morphologische Bemerkungen zu den hefhitischen -ie/a- Verben	p. 97
The Germanic reflexes of PIE *-sr- in the context of Verners Law	p. 117
Non-raising before *¿ in Old Irish	p. 129
The RUKI-rule in Nuristani	p. 145
Hidden sound laws in the inflectional morphology of Proto-Indo-European	p. 169
Palatalization of *sk in British Celtic	p. 209
Evidence for non-linear phonological structure in Indo-European: The case of fricative clusters	p. 223
The phonological interpretation of plene and non-plene spelled e in Hittite	p. 243
Consonant gradation in the Germanic iterative verbs	p. 263
Typology and reconstruction	p. 291
Optimale Onsets in Indogermanischen	p. 331
On the morphophonemics of Proto-Indo-European *-ske/o-presents	p. 361
Vowel reduction and deletion in Sabellic: A synchronic and diachronic interface	p. 381
Remarks on PIE amphikinetic and hysterokinetic nouns	p. 399
Germanic and the ruki dialects	p. 425
Laryngeal features of Armenian dialects	p. 435
Anatolian laryngeals in Milyan	p. 459
PIE 'me' and a new Lydian sound law	p. 485
On ancient Kartvelian-Indo-European lexical contacts and their consequences for Proto-Indo-European	p. 501
Lenition of s in Gaulish?	p. 523
PIE mobile accent in Italic: Further evidence	p. 545
Euphratic: A phonological sketch	p. 577
Notiz zur holokinetischen Ablautklasse	p. 607
A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic	p. 613
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