Pedersen and Balticum (Did the ruki-rule affected Proto-Baltic?)

Authors

ŠEFČÍK Ondřej

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Linguistica Lettica
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/65578
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/lingualet.31.2
Keywords Pedersen´s Law; ruki-rule; Baltic languages; indo-European Phonology
Description Pedersen’s law describes the development of the IE *s after *i, u, r, k, causing the shift of IE *s into *š. The process is well known from Indo-Iranian and Slavic. The process also affects Lithuanian but not Latvian or Old Prussian. The paper demonstrates that the Baltic area was fully affected by the ruki-rule; the “defective” results in the Baltic languages are results of secondary depalatalizations. The paper also provides examples of similar processes affecting “Pedersen’s” sibilant in other sat?m-languages.
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