Indo-European syllable / / by Andrew Miles Byrd

• Autore: Byrd Andrew Miles <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 414
• Soggetto topico: Indo-European language - Syllabication; Indo-European languages - Phonology; Reconstruction (Linguistics)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indo-European syllable
• ISBN: 90-04-29302-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461148003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; ; Volume 15.