Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jay H. Jasanoff -- The Indo-European Background / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture / Jay H. Jasanoff -- The Origin of Acuteness / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Mobility in Nominal Forms / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Mobility in the Verb / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Summary / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Appendix: Glossary of Terms / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Bibliography / Jay H. Jasanoff -- Index of Forms Cited / Jay H. Jasanoff.

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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.

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