Proto-Indo-European long vowels and Balto-Slavic accentuation

Pronk, Tijmen

doi:10.15388/baltistica.47.2.2143

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“…The relevant assumptions are the following (cf. Leskien ; Stang : 116; Pronk : 235–8; Hill : 47–8; similarly Hock : 378–80; Jasanoff : 9; : 100–1): acute monophthongs are always shortened at the end of a word; and acute diphthongs are shortened at the end of polysyllabic words but remain diphthongs in monosyllabic words, changing their intonation from acute to circumflex. …”

Section: East Baltic Preverbs: the Case Of Highland Lithuanianmentioning

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

Hill

Kölligan

Scheungraber

et al. 2019

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The paper argues that seemingly aberrant phonological developments of local adverbs that have become prepositions and verbal and nominal prefixes in Baltic, Germanic and Armenian are to be explained by the assumption of a phase of ‘ditropic’ behaviour: ‘ditropic clitics’ select as their prosodic host any stressed word preceding their syntactic host without forming a semantic unit. This enclitic behaviour of forms that in the historically attested stages of Baltic, Germanic and Armenian are prepositions and verbal and nominal prefixes is argued to explain their seemingly aberrant phonological developments: the shortening of Lithuanian (preverbal) nu‐ and pri‐ beside (prenominal) núo‐ and príe‐ due to Leskien's law, the operation of Verner's law in Proto‐Germanic *ga‐ beside residual *ham‐ from Proto‐Indo‐European *kom‐ and of Verner's law or assimilatory voicing in Proto‐Gmc *du‐, and the behaviour of the Armenian prepositions / prefixes betraying word‐internal position e.g. in the reduction of the affricate /dz/ to /z/ in Arm z‐. After the local adverbs passed through a phase of ditropic behaviour in all three proto‐languages, the mismatch between prosody and morphosyntax was resolved by a ‘prosodic jump’, phonologically attaching the local adverbs to their semantic and syntactic hosts.

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Section: East Baltic Preverbs: the Case Of Highland Lithuanianmentioning

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

Hill

Kölligan

Scheungraber

et al. 2019

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“…In this connection, note that *siuH-'sew' belongs to the domain of human industry, whereas a ὑμήν is normally a thin membrane that occurs naturally in living organisms. Alternatively, Pronk (2014) has proposed to derive ὑμήν from a root which he reconstructs as *h3eu-'to put on clothes, cover with skin' and which he also recognizes in a Slavic group of words for 'skin' (e.g. Russ.…”

Section: The Etymology Of εὖνις 'Bereft Of'mentioning

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A Look into the Indo-European Bedroom: Vedic yóni- and Greek εὐνή

Beek

2019

Historical Linguistics

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In this contribution I propose to etymologically connect Vedic yóni-'safe place; bed, nest; womb' and Avestan yaona-'safe place' with Greek εὐνή 'bed; lair' as well as Old Irish úam 'cave; lair, den'. I derive these words from a PIE formation *(H)i̯ eumn-V-meaning 'nest, private place' and derived from the root *(H)i̯ eu-'to separate, set apart' (Vedic pres. yuyóti). Furthermore, it is argued that the Greek adjective εὖνις 'bereft' as well as the noun ὑμήν 'membrane' derive from the same root.In a recent contribution, Oettinger (2016) has discussed the semantics of Vedic yóni-. He asserts that the concrete meaning 'womb' is primary, and that meanings like 'resting place, bed, seat, abode' arose by metaphorical extension. The etymology of yóni-, however, remains unclear 2 and we must also take into account that the denotation 'womb' may have arisen as a euphemism for a woman's private parts.In the following pages, I elaborate in more detail an etymological proposal already made in my doctoral dissertation (van Beek 2013: 316-319). 3 Compared to this previous treatment, various details are added or modified in the present paper: I discuss the consequences of this new etymology for the issue of the double outcome of initial yod in Greek, and also deal extensively with the differences in gender and stem formation (i-stem versus thematic stem) between the attested forms. As for the root etymology, I now propose a derivation from PIE *(H)i̯ eu-'to separate' (Vedic pres. yuyóti). Finally, it is argued that the adjective εὖνις 'bereft' derives from the same root and thus may have an identical origin with Vedic yóni-.

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“…The development of the PIE lengthened grade in Balto-Slavic has been hotly disputed in recent years (see e.g. Villanueva Svensson 2011a, Pronk 2012, Jasanoff 2017. Here I will only note that as far as final syllables are concerned, the majority view is that PIE long vowels and diphthongs surface as non-acute in Balto-Slavic (but see Jasanoff 2017: 89-95 for a different stance).…”

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The infinitive in Baltic and Balto-Slavic

Svensson

2019

Indo-Eur. Linguist.

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This article presents a new approach to the Baltic and Balto-Slavic infinitive system. It is argued that the traditional view (which, in essence, derives the Slavic infinitive -ti from PIE loc. sg. *-tēi̯ and projects all Baltic infinitive endings back into Balto-Slavic) is for several reasons problematic. Balto-Slavic possessed just one infinitive (OCS -ti, Lith. -ti < Bl.-Sl. *-tī < PIE dat. sg. *-tei̯-ei̯, as per Hill 2016) and a supine (OCS -tъ, Lith. -tų < Bl.-Sl. *-tun < PIE acc. sg. *-tum). All other infinitive endings of Baltic (OPr. -twei, Lith. dial. -tie, Latv. refl. -tiê-s) were an exclusive creation of this branch. The reasons for the expansion of the infinitive in Baltic are also discussed.

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Proto-Indo-European long vowels and Balto-Slavic accentuation

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

A Look into the Indo-European Bedroom: Vedic yóni- and Greek εὐνή

The infinitive in Baltic and Balto-Slavic

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