The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

approx. xiii, 249 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-34609-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

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

The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent has been written to fill a gap. The interested non-specialist can easily learn about the complex accent systems of the individual Baltic and Slavic languages and how they relate to each other. But the reader interested in the Proto-Balto-Slavic parent system, and how it evolved from the very different system of Proto-Indo-European, has few reliable places to turn. The goal of this book is to provide an accentological interface between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic—to identify and explain the accent shifts and other early changes that give the earliest stages of Baltic and Slavic their distinctive prosodic cast.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasanoff, Jay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 The Indo-European Background
2 Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture
3 The Origin of Acuteness
4 Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent
5 Mobility in Nominal Forms
6 Mobility in the Verb
7 Summary

Appendix: Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jay Jasanoff, Ph.D. (1968), Harvard University, is Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology at Harvard. He is best known for his work on IE verbal morphology, especially Hittite and the Indo-European Verb (Oxford, 2003).