Full Description
Ablaut, the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found in e.g. English sing vs. sang vs. sung, is one of the most characteristic features of the Indo-European languages. The different ablaut grades seem to be related to the position of the accent in Proto-Indo-European. A good understanding of the relationship between accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European requires thorough analyses of the role played by the two phenomena in the Indo-European daughter languages. The aim of the volume is to present the state of the art in current work on accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages. The contributors analyse the interplay between accent and ablaut with attention both to theoretical aspects and to the specific linguistic material. Presenting up-to-date overviews of the models developed by various schools of thought, the contributors discuss a wide array of empirical as well as methodological problems, thus opening up vistas for further research.
Contents
Douglas Q. Adams: Another look at three Kuci-Prākrit-Tocharian B bilinguals; Douglas Q. Adams: Shedding light on *leuk- in Tocharian and Hittite and the wider implications of reconstructing its Indo-European morphology; Gerd Carling: Development of form and function in a case system with layers: Tocharian and Romani compared; Ching Chao-Jung & Ogihara Hirotoshi: On a Tocharian B monastic account kept in the Otani Collection; Olav Hackstein: The evolution of finite complementation in Tocharian; Frederik Kortlandt: The Tocharian s-present; Melanie Malzahn: Position matters: The placement of clitics in metrical texts of Tocharian B; Ogihara Hirotoshi: A fragment of the Bhikṣu-prātimokṣasūtra in Tocharian B; Michaël Peyrot: The Tocharian A match of the Tocharian B obl.sg. -ai; Georges-Jean Pinault: La parfaite générosité du roi Ambara (PK NS 32); Michaël Peyrot: Einleitung zu Peter Stumpfs Anhang II: Analysen stufentypischer Handschriften; Peter Stumpf: Anhang II: Analysen stufentypischer Handschriften.
