Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek

ISBN-13: 9780199680504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 464 str.

P. J. Barber

Opis

This book is an investigation of how semivowels were realised in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Greek.
The comprehensive nature of this study, its chronological sensitivity, and careful assessment of what is inherited and what is innovative, enables substantive conclusions to be drawn regarding the behaviour of semivowels at various stages in the history of Greek and in Indo-European itself.

Recenzje

Barbers book is a valuable contribution to the field, and will be a standard work on the shelves of those interested in Greek historical phonology.

O autorze

P. J. Barber is a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. His interests include Indo-European, Greek, and Indo-Iranian phonology, Greek verbal semantics, and contemporary syntactic theory.