Wackernagel in the Language of the Rigveda. A Reassessment

Keydana, Götz

doi:10.13109/hisp.2011.124.1.106

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“…For the phenomenon in Sanskrit, which bears important similarities to the Greek data, seeHale 1987aHale , 1987bHale , 1996Hale , and 2007Lowe 2011;and Keydana 2011. In Latin, see Adams 1994a and 1994b.…”

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Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire

Goldstein¹

2013

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This paper offers a novel reading of the Delphic oracle's response to Croesus's question of whether he should attack Persia (Herodotus 1), by focusing on a previously unacknowledged feature of the oracular answer: the preposing of the adjective μεγάλην. Preposing is a construction in which an element occurs before the start of the clause proper. In the oracle's response, preposing serves a corrective function. As preposing creates surface exceptions to Wackernagel's Law, it is only through an accurate understanding of the "Law" that we can even detect this construction. Working within a framework of (neo-) Gricean pragmatic theory, I detail the semantic and pragmatic contribution of preposing in the oracular response. More broadly speaking, I suggest that Gricean pragmatics can provide new insights into classical texts by offering a principled method for decoding implicit meaning.

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Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire

Goldstein¹

2013

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“…As evidenced by Sanskrit, Greek and other languages, in PIE particles and pronominal clitics had a pronounced tendency towards enclitically attaching to the first stressed word of the clause (cf. recently Taylor 1996;Keydana 2011). In Lithuanian, inherited pronominal clitics preferrably attach either to verb forms lacking preverbs or to the first preverb of a verb form, independently of their position in the clause.…”

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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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“…This is the approach taken, for example, by Radanović-Kocić (1988, Anderson (1993Anderson ( , 1996Anderson ( , 2000Anderson ( , 2005, O'Connor (2002b) and Keydana (2011), who goes so far as to say that the purely prosodic positioning of clitics should be the 'null hypothesis', due to their peculiar properties. The difference from the preceding approach is that the clitics may be specifically unordered, linearly or hierarchically, with respect to the other elements of a clause in the syntactic component, and that rather than being a last resort, prosodic or PF positioning is the primary or exclusive means of obtaining the correct ordering of clitics in the output.…”

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Clitics: Separating syntax and prosody

Lowe

2015

J. Ling.

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A problematic feature of clitic positioning attested in a number of languages is the ability of a clitic to appear inside a syntactic unit of which it is not itself a part, apparently due to prosodic restrictions on its positioning. The influence of prosody on syntax presents a challenge for any formal account, particularly any that strives to respect a modular view of the grammatical architecture. I present an account of clitic positioning within a recently proposed model of the syntax-phonology interface that aims at full modularity, showing that it is indeed possible in such an architecture, and showing where and how prosody and syntax interact in this model.

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Wackernagel in the Language of the Rigveda. A Reassessment

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire

Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire

The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

Clitics: Separating syntax and prosody

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