31.3692, Books: Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: Goblirsch

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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:57:19
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: Goblirsch

 


Title: Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening 
Subtitle: On the History of Quantity in Germanic 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 157  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/gemination-lenition-and-vowel-lengthening-history-quantity-germanic?format=PB 


Author: Kurt Goblirsch

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108928946 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108928946 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108928946 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

The processes of gemination, lenition, and vowel lengthening are central to
the study of phonology, as they reveal much about the treatment of quantity in
a given language. Using data from older language stages, modern dialects and
standard languages, this study examines the interdependence of vowel and
consonant quantity in the history of the Germanic branch of Indo-European.
Kurt Goblirsch focusses on the various geminations in Old Germanic languages
(West Germanic gemination, glide strengthening, and expressive gemination),
open syllable lengthening in German, Dutch, Frisian, English, and Scandinavian
languages, and the major lenitions in High German, Low German, and Danish, as
well as minor lenitions in Bavarian, Franconian, and Frisian dialects. All of
these changes are related to the development of the Germanic languages from
distinctive segmental length to complementary length to syllable cut. The
discussion challenges traditional theoretical assumptions about quantity
change in Germanic languages to argue for a new account whereby, gemination,
lenition, and vowel lengthening are interrelated.

1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. The road to complementary length: gemination
and quantity in Old Germanic; 3. Arriving at the goal: vowel lengthening in
Middle Germanic; 4. The reaction of consonants: lenition in Middle Germanic;
5. Quantity types in Modern Germanic.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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