Reconciling Indo-European Syllabification

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-23690-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 743 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics

In Reconciling Indo-European Syllabification, Adam Cooper brings together two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure: the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters, which tolerates CVC syllables, and the right-hand vocalization of sonorants, which ostensibly avoids them. Operating from a perspective that is simultaneously empirical, theoretical, and historical in nature, he establishes their compatibility by crafting a formal analysis that integrates them into a single picture of the reconstructed system.

More generally, drawing on evidence from Vedic, Greek, and Proto-Indo-European itself, Cooper demonstrates the continued relevance of the ancient Indo-European languages to contemporary linguistic theory, and, moreover, reaffirms the value of the syllable as a unit of phonology, necessary for these languages’ formal representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Adam I. Cooper, Ph.D. (2012) in Linguistics, Cornell University, is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Northeastern University. He has worked on a variety of topics concerning syllables, recently examining the Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonorants from a typological perspective (Indo-European Linguistics 2013).