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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969903203321

Autore

Kortlandt F. H. H (Frederik Herman Henri), <1946->

Titolo

Selected writings on Slavic and general linguistics / / Frederik Kortlandt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2011

ISBN

9786613162304

9781283162302

128316230X

9789401200608

9401200602

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; ; v. 39

Disciplina

491.8

Soggetti

Slavic languages

Baltic languages

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-462) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- SLAVIC ACCENTUATION -- TEMPORAL GRADATION AND TEMPORAL LIMITATION -- THE PROTO-GERMANIC AORIST -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

The larger part of the present volume is about Slavic historical linguistics while the second part is about more general issues and methodological aspects. The initial chapters contain a revision of the author’s Slavic Accentuation and a discussion of the Slovene evidence for the Late Proto-Slavic accentual system and of the Kiev Leaflets. These are complemented by an extensive review of Garde’s theory and an introductory article about the work of earlier authors for those who are unfamiliar with the subject. Then follows a discussion of changes in the vowel system, Bulgarian developments, final syllables in Slavic, early changes in the consonant system, and of Halle and Kiparsky’s review of Garde’s book. This results in a relative chronology of 70 stages from Proto-Indo-European to Slavic. The following chapters deal with the progressive palatalization, the accentuation of West and South Slavic languages, various aspects of the Old Slovene manuscripts, the chronology of nominal paradigms, and other issues under discussion in



recent publications. The second part of the present volume contains a number of case studies exemplifying specific theoretical problems, most of them of a semantic nature. The synchronic studies deal with Russian and Japanese syntax and semantics, the diachronic studies with tonogenesis in different languages and with semantic reconstruction in Altaic and Chinese.