Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic

ISBN-13: 9781108928946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Kurt Goblirsch

Opis

The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.

Spis treści

1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. The road to complementary length: gemination and quantity in Old Germanic; 3. Arriving at the goal: vowel lengthening in Middle Germanic; 4. The reaction of consonants: lenition in Middle Germanic; 5. Quantity types in Modern Germanic.