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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461148003321

Autore

Byrd Andrew Miles <1979->

Titolo

Indo-European syllable / / by Andrew Miles Byrd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29302-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, , 1875-6328 ; ; Volume 15

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Indo-European language - Syllabication

Indo-European languages - Phonology

Reconstruction (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the authors Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Preliminaries -- Part 2. The proposal -- Part 3. Ramifications -- Part 4. Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Indo-European Syllable Andrew Miles Byrd investigates the process of syllabification within Proto-Indo-European (PIE), revealing connections to a number of seemingly unrelated phonological processes in the proto-language. Drawing from insights in linguistic typology and synchronic theory, he makes two significant advances in our understanding of PIE phonology. First, by analyzing securely reconstructable consonant clusters at word’s edge, he devises a methodology which allows us to predict which types of consonant clusters could occur word-medially in PIE. Thus, a number of previously disconnected phonological rules can now be understood as being part of a conspiracy motivated by violations in syllable structure. Second, he uncovers evidence of morphological influence within the syllable, created by processes such as quantitative ablaut. These advances allow us to view PIE as a synchronic grammar, one which can be described by -- and contribute to -- modern linguistic theory.