Synopses & Reviews
Ablaut—the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found, for example, in the English verb “sing” (sing, sang, sung)—is one of the most characteristic features of the Indo-European languages. Indo-European Accent and Ablaut investigates the relationship between ablaut and accent in Indo-European languages and in their predecessor—Proto-Indo-European. It offers a thorough overview of the most recent scholarship on ablaut and accent by some of today’s most expert linguists. With attention to both theoretical understandings and specific linguistic materials, the contributors discuss an array of empirical and methodological issues in researching these key linguistic phenomena, and in doing so they open up new horizons for research.
About the Author
Götz Keydana is assistant professor of linguistics at Göttingen University. Paul Widmer is lecturer at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Thomas Olander is a researcher and instructor at the University of Copenhagen.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Interne Rekonstruktion und Akzentparadigmen
Wolfgang Hock
Proterokinetische Stämme, Akzent und Ablaut
Götz Keydana
Metrical grid theory, internal derivation, and the reconstruction of PIE nominal accent paradigms
Ronald I. Kim
Indo-European nominal ablaut patterns: The Anatolian evidence
Alwin Kloekhorst
Indo-European heritage in the Balto-Slavic accentuation system
Thomas Olander
On Indo-European tones, accentuation and ablaut
Tijmen Pronk
Zwei? Vier? Sechs? Zur Anzahl der Nominalablauttypen und ihrem Grundwesen (Apophonica VII)
Xavier Tremblay
Akzent und Ablaut, externe und interne Derivation in der Nominalkomposition
Paul Widmer