Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic accent, The
Baltic languages Indo-European languages Slavic languages e-böcker
Brill
2017
EISBN 9789004346109
The Indo-European Background.
Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture.
The Origin of Acuteness.
Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent.
Mobility in Nominal Forms.
Mobility in the Verb.
Summary.
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.
Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture.
The Origin of Acuteness.
Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent.
Mobility in Nominal Forms.
Mobility in the Verb.
Summary.
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.
