Full Description
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.
Contents
PrefaceRainer ECKERT: Zum 40. Todestag des russischen Sprachforschers Dr. V.M. Illic-SvitycMiguel CARRASQUER VIDAL: Slavic verbal accentuation - notes on origin and developmentRick DERKSEN: Slavic evidence for Balto-Slavic oxytonaV. A. DYBO: Sistema porozhdenija akcentnyx tipov proizvodnyx v balto-slavjanskom prajazykeAdam HYLLESTED & Bernd GLIWA: Metatony in Lithuanian internal derivationMate KAPOVIC: The accent of Slavic *ja(z ) 'I'Frederik KORTLANDT: Accent retraction and tonogenesisThomas 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-stemsJens ELMEGARD RASMUSSEN: A note on Slaaby-Larsen's lawToshihiro SHINTANI: On Winter's law in Balto-SlavicRoman SUKAC: Hirt's law and Optimality TheoryMatej SEKLI: On Romance-Alpo-Slavic substitutional accentology: the case of pre-Slavic masculine substrate place names in SloveneAlexandra TER-AVANESOVA: The accentuation of i-verbs in some Russian dialects: an innovation that preserves an archaismSteven YOUNG: Tone in Latvian borrowings from Old Russian
