Baltica & Balto-SlavicaThis 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. |
Contents
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The development of the IndoEuropean syllabic resonants in Balto | 39 |
Long vowels in BaltoSlavic | 48 |
PIE lengthened grade in BaltoSlavic | 61 |
Winters law again | 73 |
Some news travels slowly | 81 |
Miscellaneous remarks on BaltoSlavic accentuation | 87 |
The development of the Prussian language in the 16th century | 195 |
Two Old Prussian fragments | 215 |
Paragogic e in the Old Prussian epigram | 221 |
An analysis of the Prussian First Catechism | 229 |
The linguistic position of the Prussian Second Catechism | 237 |
Double consonants in Old Prussian | 247 |
Initial a and e in Old Prussian | 255 |
Old Prussian diphthongs | 265 |
BaltoSlavic accentual mobility | 93 |
Accent retraction and tonogenesis | 103 |
On the history of the genitive plural in Slavic Baltic Germanic | 111 |
Gothic gen pl e | 125 |
Old Prussian snā Lithuanian sena Latvian šana | 137 |
Tokie šalti rytai | 147 |
Slavic imamь | 167 |
The etymology of Latvian nākt to come | 181 |
PHILOLOGY | 189 |
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1st pl 1st sg 2nd pl 2nd sg 3rd pl 3rd sg acc.pl acc.sg accent shift accentual mobility acute adder ader ainan ains analogical aorist athematic Baltic languages Balto-Slavic catechisms Christus circumflex consonant dangon dat.sg Deiwas Deiws dīgi diphthong druwe e.g. Lith East Baltic emnen Enchiridion ending Ettrais evidence flexion forms gen.pl gen.sg glottalization grikans Indo-European käigi labbai laryngeal Latv Latvian lengthened grade Lithuanian long vowel metatony monophthongization nasal neuter nom.pl nom.sg noūmans nouns nouson Old Prussian original Pallaips paradigm phonetic prei preterit pronoun Proto-Indo-European proto-language reconstruction reflex retraction Rikijan rikis root vowel Russ šan sigmatic Slavic stai stan Stang stawidan steimans steise steisei stem stesmu stwen stwi suffix swaian swintan syllable tāns Tāwas tāws Thawas thematic Tocharian tone Tou ni tur turì turri twais twaisei Vedic verbs Wijk Winter's law wirdan wisàn wissan