Includes bibliographical references and index.

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