31.1422, Books: Proto-Indo-European Word Stress: Voyles, Barrack

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Subject: 31.1422, Books: Proto-Indo-European Word Stress: Voyles, Barrack

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:34:41
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Proto-Indo-European Word Stress: Voyles, Barrack

 


Title: Proto-Indo-European Word Stress 
Subtitle: Its Lithuanian Reflex 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 53  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSIEL-53-Proto-Indo-European-Word-Stress-Its-Lithuanian-Reflex/en 


Author: Joseph Voyles
Author: Charles Barrack

Electronic: ISBN:  9783862901470 Pages: 246 Price: Europe EURO 156.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9783862900664 Pages: 246 Price: Europe EURO 156.00


Abstract:

The development of Lithuanian word stress has long lent itself to
misinterpretation. Many have considered it as somehow directly reflective of
that of Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

The present study represents a dissent from this view. The reconstruction of
PIE word stress is based on the evidence of Classical Sanskrit and Ancient
Greek. An early morphologically conditioned rule is therefore posited which is
then completely replaced (as in Sanskrit) or partially replaced (as in Greek)
by some sort of phonologically conditioned rule.

This model is then applied to the Lithuanian data: in Lithuanian there is a
partial retention of the original PIE morphologically conditioned rule with
the addition of a phonologically conditioned rule which moves the stress to
the left. But the Lithuanian rule moves the stress only one mora to the left
(where 1 mora = a short vowel and 2 morae = a long vowel or diphthong). This
change in its interaction with the other explicitly formulated changes from
PIE into Lithuanian suffices to account for the Lithuanian stress
patterns-namely the grave accent over a short stressed vowel, the acute accent
over a long vowel or diphthong stressed on its first mora and finally the
tilde (or circumflex) accent over a long vowel or diphthong stressed on its
second mora.

Thus it has been demonstrated that the Lithuanian word-stress rule can be
derived from that of PIE by reasonable and attested types of change. It should
also be emphasized that the Lithuanian rule has undergone massive change from
that of PIE and is therefore only faintly reflective of it.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Lithuanian (lit)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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