Preservation vs lenition
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | Unlike previous minor studies on the theme, which on account of their partial nature could not fully capture the deeper principles of the development of Proto-Indo-European obstruent + *t/dh/s clusters, the present book provides a structural view of their development in all branches of Indo-European languages both in breadth and depth. Inter alia, Bartholomae’s law, tau celticum and the issues of Lautverschiebung both in Germanic and Armenian are also innovatively treated. The highly structured text makes the volume a unique work of reference. Anyone interested in the Indo-European consonant system and its continuation in the various branches of the Indo-European language family will find the book with its new solutions and new answers to many (old) questions indispensable to their research. Other linguists such as typologists will also profit from its findings and groundbreaking methodology. |
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