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Baltica and Balto-Slavica /

Kortlandt, F. H. H. 1946-

Baltica and Balto-Slavica / Baltica and Balto-Slavica Frederik Kortlandt. - 1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages) - Leiden studies in Indo-European, 16 0926-5856 ; . - Leiden Studies in Indo-European 16. Rodopi Language and Linguistics Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357983. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Historical laws of Baltic accentuation / Innovations which betray archaisms / Shortening and metatony in the Lithuanian future / Holger Pedersen’s Études lituaniennes revisted / Indo-European palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic / Three problems of Balto-Slavic phonology / The development of the Indo-European syllabic resonants in Balto-Slavic / Balto-Slavic phonological developments / Long vowels in Balto-Slavic / PIE lengthened grade in Balto-Slavic / Remark’s on Winter’s law / Winter’s law again / The rise and fall of glottalization in Baltic and Slavic / Balto-Slavic accentuation: Some news travels slowly / Noises and nuisances in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European linguistics / Miscellaneous remarks on Balto-Slavic accentuation / Final stress in Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms / On the accentuation of the illative / Balto-Slavic accentual mobility / Accent retraction and tonogenesis / On the history of the genitive plural in Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, and Indo-European / Gothic gen.pl.-e / Baltic ē-and ī/jā-stems / Old Prussian -snā, Lithuanian -sena, Lativian -šana / Demonstrative pronouns in Balto-Slavic, Armenian, and Tocharian / Tokie šalti rytai / Toward a reconstruction of the Balto-Slavic verbal system / Slavic imamb / Lithuanian statýti and related formations / The etymology of Latvian nãkt ‘to come’ / Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti / Lithuanin tekėti and related formations / Van Wijk’s Altpreussische Studien revisited / The development of the Prussian language in the 16th century / Two Old Prussian fragments / Who is who in the Old Prussian epigram? / Paragogic -e in the Old Prussian epigram / The language of the Old Prussian catechisms / An analysis of the Prussian First Catechism / The linguistic position of the Prussian Second Catechism / Old Prussian accentuation / Double consonants in Old Prussian / The Prussian accent shift / Initial a- and e- in Old Prussian / Diphthongization and monophthongization in Old Prussian / Old Prussian diphthongs / Old Prussian infinitives in -ton and -twei / Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik -- Kortlandt Frederik.

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This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter’s law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/jā stems, and thematic and athematic present endings. The second half of the book contains a comparative analysis of the three Prussian catechisms, resulting in the conclusion that they represent three consecutive stages of a real linguistic system. It includes a discussion of the Prussian accent shift, initial vowels, diphthongs, infinitives, verb classes, participles and traces of ablauting paradigms. The final part of the book offers a full linguistic interpretation of the three Prussian catechisms on the basis of the preceding chapters, followed by a list of references and a word index. The book is of interest to Balticists, Slavicists, Indo-Europeanists, and other historical linguists.

9789042026537

10.1163/9789042026537 DOI


Baltic languages--Grammar.
Prussian language--Grammar.
Slavic languages--Grammar.
Baltic languages--Grammar.
Prussian language--Grammar.
Slavic languages--Grammar.

PG8018 / .K678 2009

491.9