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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968712803321

Autore

Byrd Andrew Miles <1979->

Titolo

The Indo-European syllable / / by Andrew Miles Byrd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill.

c2015

ISBN

9789004293021

9004293027

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Brill's Studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Indo-European languages - Syllabication

Indo-European languages - Phonology

Reconstruction (Linguistics)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 1 An Overview of the Indo-European Sound System / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 2 Phonological Theory and Past Views of the Indo-European Syllable / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 3 The Maximum Syllable Template / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 4 Schindler’s Exceptions and the Phonology-Morphology Interface / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 5 Motivating Sievers’ Law / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 6 Motivating Pinault’s Law / Andrew Miles Byrd -- 7 The Indo-European Syllable: A Review / Andrew Miles Byrd -- Appendices / Andrew Miles Byrd -- References / Andrew Miles Byrd.

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.