35.1943, Books: The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: Suzuki (2024)

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Date: 02-Jul-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic: Suzuki (2024)


Title: The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic
Subtitle: A contact-linguistic perspective
Series Title: Studies in Germanic Linguistics   9
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sigl.9

Author: Seiichi Suzuki
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214836 Pages: 175 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214836 Pages: 175 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214836 Pages: 175 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214836 Pages: 175 Price: Europe EURO 127.20
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246899 Pages: 175 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246899 Pages: 175 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246899 Pages: 175 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Abstract:

This book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development
of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a
phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second,
this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a
contact-induced change. Specifically, a Gothic/Greek bilingual
community may be held responsible for initiating and diffusing the
contact change. Third, I claim that this contact-driven featural
enrichment prompted an array of radical restructurings of fricatives
in their phonological and morphological organizations in Gothic,
notably the occurrence of Final Devoicing in contrast to the
nonoccurrence of medial voicing, the elimination of Verner’s Law
effects in strong verbs, the operation of Thurneysen’s Law, and the
apparently irregular split of PGmc. */fl-/ to Go. /fl-/ and /þl-/.
Thus, privileged by a Lower Danube community largely composed of
Greek/Gothic bilinguals, this cluster of mid-fourth-century
innovations came to define the phonological and morphological
identities of Biblical Gothic.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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