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DOES LACHMANN'S LAW APPLY TO DIPHTONGS?
Daniel Nečas Hraste
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Initially the author reviews the traditional explanations of Lachmannn’s law, especially the fact that it is grounded on the assumption concerning the reintroduction of the voiced consonant in words such as actus analogically to the forms of the type agere which by way of a repeated devoicing brought about the lengthening of the previous vocal. Only such an explanation permits one to assume the existence of the form with a long diphthong of the *âuctus type. Next the author draws attention to the explanation offered by glottal theory which does not take into consideration analogy but rather derives Lachmann’s law from a phonetic factor which is not immediately connected to voicedness. This theory, according
to which Lachmann’s law is conditioned by the original glottalization of sounds which are only later reflected as voiced unaspirated sounds and which takes the action of the glottalelement as close to the action of the laryngeal, does not support the assumption about the
length of the diphthong under the influence of Lachmann’s law. In conclusion the author poses the question whether the glottal element might not have caused vocalization and
subsequently the lengthening of the consonantal element in the diphthong. The graphics of caûsa alongside causa and caussa seem to bear this out. The question has to remain open because neither the etymology nor the suffix of the word causa have been wholly explained.
Ključne riječi
Lachmann’s law; glottal theory
Hrčak ID:
17279
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Datum izdavanja:
12.2.2007.
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