The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

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The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent has been written to fill a gap. The interested non-specialist can easily learn about the complex accent systems of the individual Baltic and Slavic languages and how they relate to each other. But the reader interested in the Proto-Balto-Slavic parent system, and how it evolved from the very different system of Proto-Indo-European, has few reliable places to turn. The goal of this book is to provide an accentological interface between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic—to identify and explain the accent shifts and other early changes that give the earliest stages of Baltic and Slavic their distinctive prosodic cast.

Author(s): Jasanoff, J.
Series: Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, Volume 17
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 284

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Chapter 1 The Indo-European Background......Page 17
1.1.1 The Segmental Inventory......Page 18
1.1.2 Accent and Ablaut......Page 20
1.2.1 Udātta and svarita......Page 23
1.2.2 Paradigmatic Mobility......Page 24
1.2.3 Distractable Long Vowels......Page 25
1.3.1 Acute and Circumflex......Page 26
1.3.2 The Law of Limitation......Page 28
1.3.3 Final -ai and -oi......Page 29
1.3.4 Paradigmatic Mobility in Greek......Page 30
1.4 Anatolian......Page 31
1.5.1 Bimoric and Trimoric Vowels......Page 32
1.5.2 Verner Doublets......Page 35
1.6.1 Internal Derivation......Page 36
1.6.2 External Derivation......Page 38
1.7.1 The Generative-compositional Approach......Page 40
1.7.2 Discussion......Page 42
1.7.3 Conclusion......Page 45
Chapter 2 Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture......Page 47
2.1.1 Acute and Circumflex......Page 48
2.1.2 Acuteness as a Property of Morphemes......Page 50
2.1.3 The Autonomy of Acuteness......Page 52
2.1.4 Saussure’s Law......Page 54
2.1.5 Mobility......Page 55
2.1.6 Žemaitian......Page 57
2.2 Slavic......Page 58
2.2.1 Rising and Falling Accents......Page 59
2.2.3 Stang......Page 61
2.2.3.1 Accent Paradigm a......Page 62
2.2.3.2 Accent Paradigm c and Meillet’s Law......Page 63
2.2.3.3 Accent Paradigm b......Page 66
2.2.4 Dybo’s Law......Page 68
2.2.5 Lexical vs. Left-marginal Accent......Page 71
2.2.6 The Autonomy of Acuteness in Slavic......Page 72
2.2.7 Componential Interpretation of the Slavic Accents......Page 75
2.2.8 Slavic vs. Lithuanian......Page 77
2.3.1 Latvian......Page 78
2.3.2 Old Prussian......Page 80
2.4.1 Accent......Page 83
2.4.2 Acuteness......Page 86
2.4.3 Summary......Page 88
3.1 The Scope of the Problem......Page 90
3.2.1 Balto-Slavic and Germanic......Page 92
3.2.2 Acute vs. Non-acute Diphthongs......Page 94
3.3 Kortlandt: Acuteness from Glottalic Contact......Page 96
3.4.1 Métatonie Douce......Page 99
3.4.2 Vr̥ddhi and Narten Derivation......Page 102
3.4.3 Final Syllables......Page 105
3.4.4 Diphthongal Endings......Page 107
3.4.5 Monosyllables......Page 111
3.5.1 BCS dònijeh, ùmrijeh, zàkleh, rȉjeh......Page 113
3.5.2 PSl. *dȃ, Lith. duõs......Page 115
3.5.3 Lith. gé̇rė vs. bė̃rė......Page 117
3.6 Summary......Page 118
Chapter 4 Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent......Page 120
4.1 Post-mobility Accent Shifts: Hirt’s Law......Page 121
4.2.1 Saussure 1896......Page 124
4.2.2 Oxytonicity and Mobility......Page 125
4.2.3 Evaluation......Page 127
4.2.4 Olander 2009......Page 129
4.3.1 Verbs......Page 131
4.3.2 The Structure of a Theory of Mobility......Page 133
4.4.1 Saussure Revisited......Page 134
4.4.2 The “Obstacles”......Page 136
4.4.3 The Rule......Page 138
4.4.4 Phonetics and Phonology of SPL......Page 141
4.5.1 Word Length and Accent Placement......Page 142
4.5.2 The Rule and Its Effects......Page 144
4.5.3 The Origin of VDL......Page 145
5.1.1 The Common Curve......Page 147
5.1.3 Genitive Singular (x . . x̍)......Page 149
5.1.4 Dative Singular (x᷅ . . x)......Page 150
5.1.5 Accusative Singular (x᷅ . . x)......Page 151
5.1.6 Locative Singular (x . . x̍)......Page 153
5.1.7 Nominative Plural (x᷅ . . x)......Page 154
5.1.8 Accusative Plural (x᷅ . . x)......Page 155
5.1.9 Nominative-accusative Dual (x᷅ . . x)......Page 156
5.2.1 Forms Conforming to the Normal Curve......Page 157
5.2.2.1 o-stem Genitive Singular (x᷅ . . x)......Page 158
5.2.2.2 o-stem Locative Singular (x᷅ . . x)......Page 159
5.2.2.3 o-stem Nominative Plural (x . . x̍)......Page 160
5.3.1 Proto-VDL in nouns......Page 163
5.3.2 Genitive Plural (x . . x̍)......Page 167
5.3.3 Dative Plural (x . . x̍)......Page 168
5.3.4 Instrumental Plural (x . . x̍)......Page 169
5.3.5 Locative Plural (x . . x̍)......Page 170
5.3.6 Dative and Instrumental Dual (x . . x̍)......Page 171
5.3.7 Addendum: the Instrumental Singular......Page 172
5.4.1.1 The Nom.-Acc. Endings......Page 174
5.4.1.2 The Treatment of Oxytone Neuters......Page 175
5.4.1.3 Illič-Svityč’s Law......Page 178
5.4.1.4 Root-accented o-stem Neuters......Page 180
5.4.1.5 Summary: Accent and Gender in Non-acute o-stems in Slavic......Page 181
5.4.2 Neuter Consonant Stems......Page 182
5.5.1 Demonstratives......Page 185
5.5.2 Personal Pronouns......Page 186
5.6.1 Dominant vs. Recessive......Page 188
5.6.2 Secondary Derivatives......Page 190
5.6.3 The Derivational Accent Rule......Page 192
5.6.4 Valency: Summary......Page 195
6.1 Overview......Page 196
6.2 Thematic Presents......Page 198
6.2.1.1 Explaining Mobility......Page 199
6.2.1.2 The Accentuation of the Optative......Page 202
6.2.1.3 The Extension of the Mobile Pattern......Page 204
6.2.1.4 tudáti-presents and Thematic Barytonization......Page 205
6.2.2.1 Nasal Presents......Page 208
6.2.2.2 The Baltic Presents in -sta-......Page 210
6.2.2.3 Presents in *-i̯e/o-......Page 211
6.2.3 Thematic Presents: Summary......Page 214
6.3 “Semithematic” Presents in Baltic......Page 215
6.3.1 The Baltic Presents in *-ā-......Page 216
6.3.2 The Baltic Presents in *-ĭ-......Page 217
6.3.3 Immobility in i-presents......Page 221
6.4.1 The “Regular” Forms......Page 223
6.4.2 AP b1 vs. b2......Page 225
6.4.3 “Poluotmetnost’”......Page 228
6.4.4 The Origin of AP b2......Page 231
6.5 Athematic Presents......Page 233
6.6.1 Mobility and Valency in the Slavic Verb......Page 236
6.6.2 The Infinitive and Supine......Page 237
6.6.3 The Aorist......Page 239
6.6.4 Participles......Page 242
6.6.5 Baltic......Page 245
7.1 From PIE to Proto-Balto-Slavic......Page 247
7.2 From Proto-Balto-Slavic to the Later Languages......Page 249
Appendix: Glossary of Terms......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 254
Index of Forms Cited......Page 267