Toward Proto-Nostratic : a new approach to the comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic / / Allan R. Bomhard ; foreword By Paul J. Hopper

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811338203321
• Autore: Bomhard Allan R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1984
• ISBN: 1-283-31416-9; 9786613314161; 90-272-8016-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 27
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetti: Proto-Indo-European language; Proto-Afroasiatic language; Reconstruction (Linguistics); Comparative linguistics; Nostratic hypothesis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""TOWARD PROTO-NOSTRATIC""; ""Editorial page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""Table of contents ""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1. PREFATORY REMARKS""; ""1.2. THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ""; ""1.3. THE AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES""; ""2. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN CONSONANT SYSTEM ""; ""2.1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND""; ""2.2. THE LARYNGEALS""; ""2.3. THE VOICELESS ASPIRATES ""; ""2.4. THE GUTTURAL S""; ""2.5. THE EJECTIVES""; ""2.6. THE TRADITIONAL VOICED ASPIRATES""; ""2.7. THE RESONANTS ""; ""2.8. CONCLUDING REMARKS ""; ""3. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN VOWEL SYSTEM """"3.1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ""; ""3.2. VOWEL GRADATION""; ""3.3. CRITIQUE OF THE TRADITIONAL RECONSTRUCTION""; ""3.4. EARLIEST PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN VOWEL SYSTEM""; ""3.5. THE LONG VOWELS""; ""3.6. THE VOWELS */i/ AND */ u/""; ""3.7. ANATOLIAN ""; ""3.8. THE PH0NEMICIZATI0N OF */e/ AND ; */o/ ""; ""3.9. THE DIPHTHONGS""; ""3.10. NON-APOPHONIC */e/ AND */o/ ""; ""3.11. DISINTEGRATING INDO-EUROPEAN */a/ ""; ""4. ACCENTUATION IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES""; ""4.1. OLD INDIC ACCENTUATION ""; ""4.2. GREEK ACCENTUATION""; ""4.3. GERMANIC ACCENTUATION """"4.4. SLAVIC ACCENTUATION""; ""4.5. CELTIC ACCENTUATION ""; ""4.6. ITALIC ACCENTUATIO N""; ""4.7. ARMENIAN ACCENTUATION ""; ""4.8. SUMMARY/PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN ""; ""5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THE NON-ANATOLIAN DAUGHTER LANGUAGES ""; ""5.1. DISINTEGRATING INDO-EUROPEAN ""; ""5.2. INDO-IRANIAN""; ""5.3. SLAVIC ""; ""5.4. BALTIC""; ""5.5. ARMENIAN""; ""5.6. GERMANIC""; ""5.7. CELTIC""; ""5.8. ITALIC""; ""5.9. GREEK""; ""5.10. TOCHARIAN""; ""5.11. ALBANIAN""; ""6. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN THE ANATOLIAN DAUGHTER LANG UAGES""""6.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""6.2. PROTO-ANATOLIAN""; ""6.3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTO-ANATOLIAN PHONOLOGICAL SY STEM""; ""6.4. EXAMPLES OF THE VOWELS""; ""6.5. NOTES ON THE VOWELS""; ""6.6. EXAMPLES OF THE GLIDES""; ""6.7. EXAMPLES OF THE RESONANTS""; ""6.8. NOTES ON THE RESONANTS""; ""6.9. EXAMPLES OF THE CONSONANTS""; ""6.10. NOTES ON THE CONSONANTS""; ""6.11. THE LARYNGEALS""; ""6.12. EXAMPLES OF THE LARYNGEALS""; ""6.13. THE LARYNGEALS /?, h/""; ""6.14. EXAMPLES OF /?, h/""; ""7. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-AFROASIATIC CONSONANT SYSTEM """"7.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""7.2. THE EMPHATICS""; ""7.3. THE LABIALS""; ""7.4. EXAMPLES OF THE LABIALS ""; ""7.5. THE DENTALS""; ""7.6. EXAMPLES OF THE DENTALS""; ""7.7. THE DENTAL AFFRICATES""; ""7.8. EXAMPLES OF THE DENTAL AFFRICATES ""; ""7.9. THE PALATALIZED ALVEOLARS ""; ""7.10. EXAMPLES OF THE PALATALIZED ALVEOLARS""; ""7.11. THE SIBILANTS""; ""7.12. EXAMPLES OF THE SIBILANTS""; ""7.13. THE LATERALIZED AFFRICATES""; ""7.14. EXAMPLES OF THE LATERALIZED AFFRICATES""; ""7.15. THE GUTTURALS""; ""7.16. EXAMPLES OF THE GUTTURALS""