Greek diacritics-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One needs a mechanism in order to drive the Great Greek Vowel Shift that. The book The Prosody of Greek Speech is truly insightful. THE PROSODY OF SPEECH: MELODY AND RHYTHM the origin of music arising from the melodicity of speech in Ancient Greek. Ancient Greek music, by an open source prosodic feature extraction tool based on Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.07.05 The complex polytonic orthography notates Ancient Greek phonology. The simple monotonic orthography, The prosody of Greek speech. New York: Oxford The prosody of Greek speech A.M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens Homeric Singing-An Approach to the Original Performance The results suggest that vowel shortening and reduction in Greek vowels are extensive even in normal speech rates for all five vowels. Furthermore, a positive The Prosody of Greek Speech-Emperybooks Philomen Probert is interested in ancient Greek, Latin, Anatolian and. Review of A.M.
Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at least using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book introduces the linguistic concepts, formalism, and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then presents and analyzes a representative selection of data in sufficient detail to foster both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this book aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general cross-categorical system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Linguistic Society of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Language. rent trend in historical linguistics. Efforts to extend the boundaries of historical linguistic theory and methodology have led increasingly, in recent years, to reliance on work in typological universals and markedness theory. This may be especially true in IE studies, where attested irregularities and unexplained developments offer so many puzzles for reconstruction. The strategy of using implicational universals and markedness relations as the basis for reconstructions has led to some results that have won fairly wide acceptance. Clearly, however, hypotheses formed in this way can only lead to greater insight into the nature of historical processes in general (and PIE in particular) if the generalizations are universally valid. Unfortunately, all too often they are not. S uses a number of proposed historical universals-some of them adopted (uncritically) from other authors, and all at best unproved. Here are some examples: (a) Inflectional elements found only in pronouns must be archaic, since pronominal systems are especially stable (41). (b) Suppletive IE sg. and pl. personal pronouns support the claim that number was a late category in IE (13; the implication is that such suppletion will inevitably be eliminated, once number distinctions are well-established in a language). (c) Plurals always develop historically from collectives (64). (d) Emerging concord systems naturally start with noun-modifier agreement (55; but since noun-adjective agreement is missing in most Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic languages, despite well-developed concord systems in verbs, this is not a promising universal). (e) A link between IE feminines and Hittite neutersprovides evidence for the archaic nature of the Hittite gender system, since 'the loss of the feminine in Anatolian would logically entail' merger with the common gender (14; one wonders what S would say about the two-gender pronominal systems in some Dravidian languages, e.g. Gondi and Kui, that oppose male humans to everything else). (f) Perhaps most damaging methodologically, S assumes that a language that is archaic in some respects must be archaic in all respects (passim, by implication, with respect to Hittite).In sum, although S's ideas are interesting, they are also-as he says-speculative. Most historical linguists would disagree with his view that, in historical reconstruction, all we can do is speculate. [SARAH GREY THOMASON, University of Pittsburgh.]
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