Original scientific paper
THE REFLEXES OF THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN LARYNGEALS IN THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES
Ranko Matasović
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
In this paper I discuss several sound changes involving the PIE Iaryngeals and their reflexes in Proto-Slavic. Particular attention is made to the relative chronology of the earliest Balto-Slavic sound changes, as wellas to the problem of the origin of the Balto-Slavic intonations. I argue that the PIE laryngeals first merged into a single segment in Proto-Balto-Slavic, which was subsequently lost in most positions, but preserved in syllable onset until the Proto-Slavic period it is also claimed that Winter’s law and De Saussure-Bezzenberger’s law can be subsumed under a more general rule which explains the origin of the Balto-Slavic acute intonation. The approachsuggested in this paper can help us understand the (Balto-)Slavic accentological changes from a typological and areal perspective, But it can also shed some new light on some hitherto poorly understood phenomena, e.g., the origin of the moparticiple in Balto-Slavic, or the metathesis seen in OCS kamy "stone” vs. Lith. akmuo.
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214728
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Publication date:
10.10.1998.
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