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The Indo-European syllable / by Andrew Miles Byrd.

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In this volume, Andrew Miles Byrd analyzes the process of syllabification within Proto-Indo-European, revealing connections to a number of seemingly unrelated phonological processes in the proto-language.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Byrd, Andrew Miles, 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; Volume 15.
Subjects:
Indo-European languages > Syllabication.
Indo-European languages > Phonology.
Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Preliminaries
  • Part 2. The proposal
  • Part 3. Ramifications
  • Part 4. Appendices.
  • 4.1 What We Know So Far
  • 4.1.1 Keydana 2008: R/C
  • 4.1.2 Cooper 2012: Adjusting the Sonority Hierarchy
  • 4.1.3 Review
  • 4.2 Nasal-infixed Presents: An Overview
  • 4.3 The Usual Solution: Syllabification by Analogy
  • 4.4 Solution 1: Syllabification as Underlying
  • 4.5 Solution 2: Correspondence by Derivation
  • 4.6 Solution 3: Invoking the pword (ω)
  • 4.7 Solution 4: Syllabification & Syncope
  • 4.8 Conclusions
  • Part 3 Ramifications
  • Chapter 5 Motivating Sievers' Law
  • 5.1 Introduction and Overview
  • 5.2 Overview of Sievers' Law
  • 5.2.1 Evidence in the Daughter Languages
  • 5.2.2 Einzelsprachlich or Inherited-- 5.2.3 Schindler 1977
  • 5.3 Motivating Sievers' Law: The Avoidance of Superheavy Syllables
  • 5.3.1 Framework Used in Analysis
  • 5.3.2 The Stem Level
  • 5.3.3 The Postlexical Level
  • 5.3.4 Overgeneration
  • 5.4 Consequences of Analysis
  • 5.4.1 Advantages
  • 5.4.2 Disadvantages
  • 5.4.3 Predictions
  • 5.5 Summary and Conclusions
  • Chapter 6 Motivating Pinault's Law
  • 6.1 Introduction and Overview
  • 6.2 The Data
  • 6.2.1 Instances of Deletion
  • 6.2.2 Instances of Retention
  • 6.2.3 Conflicting Data
  • 6.2.4 Discussion
  • 6.3 Motivating Pinault's Law: The Impossibility of a Palatalized Pharyngeal
  • 6.4 Implications
  • 6.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter 7 The Indo-European Syllable: A Review
  • Part 4 Appendices
  • Appendix A: Index of Indo-EuropeanRoots & Words
  • Appendix B: Proto-Indo-European Edge Phonotactics
  • Appendix C: Glossary of Concepts and Constraints
  • Appendix D: Research Study on -ic Formations
  • References.

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