Stressing the past

Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2555-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics

From a synchronic point of view, the various accentuation systems found in the Baltic and Slavic languages differ considerably from each other. We find languages with free accent and languages with fixed accent, languages with and without syllabic tones, and languages with and without a distinction between short and long vowels. Yet despite the apparent diversity in the attested Baltic and Slavic languages, the sources from which these languages have developed – the reconstructed languages referred to as Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic respectively – seem to have had very similar accentuation systems.
The prehistory and development of the Baltic and Slavic accentuation systems is the main topic of this book, which contains sixteen articles on Baltic and Slavic accentology written by some of the world’s leading specialists in this field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Olander, Thomas

Larsson, Jenny Helena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Baltische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Rainer ECKERT: Zum 40. Todestag des russischen Sprachforschers Dr. V.M. Illi?-Svity?
Miguel CARRASQUER VIDAL: Slavic verbal accentuation – notes on origin and development
Rick DERKSEN: Slavic evidence for Balto-Slavic oxytona
V. A. DYBO: Sistema porozhdenija akcentnyx tipov proizvodnyx v balto-slavjanskom prajazyke
Adam HYLLESTED & Bernd GLIWA: Metatony in Lithuanian internal derivation
Mate KAPOVI?: The accent of Slavic *ja(z?) ‘I’
Frederik KORTLANDT: Accent retraction and tonogenesis
Thomas OLANDER: The accentuation of Old Prussian deiws ‘god’
Irina S. PEKUNOVA: O nekotoryx akcentuacionnyx osobennostjax sushchestvitel'nyx a.p. c v staroserbskix pamjatnikax)
Tijmen PRONK: The accentuation of the Slavic n-stems
Jens ELMEGÅRD RASMUSSEN: A note on Slaaby-Larsen’s law
Toshihiro SHINTANI: On Winter’s law in Balto-Slavic
Roman SUKA?: Hirt’s law and Optimality Theory
Matej SEKLI: On Romance-Alpo-Slavic substitutional accentology: the case of pre-Slavic masculine substrate place names in Slovene
Alexandra TER-AVANESOVA: The accentuation of i-verbs in some Russian dialects: an innovation that preserves an archaism
Steven YOUNG: Tone in Latvian borrowings from Old Russian