Historical Phonology
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This paper presents a comprehensive phonetic and phonological description of Northern Sangtam, an essentially undescribed Tibeto-Burman language of central Nagaland belonging to the Aoic subgroup. It is a noteworthy language from a number... more
This article proposes a new formal reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) nouns containing the suffix *–oi–. I argue that both primary and non-primary derivatives in this class had stress alternating between the derivational suffix... more
Neste trabalho, debruçamo-nos sobre a fonologia do Proto-Jabutí (PJab), língua da qual descendem o Arikapú (Ari) e o Djeoromitxí (Dje). Embora esta proto-língua já tenha sido alvo de estudos reconstrutivos (notavelmente VOORT, 2007),... more
The article describes Eugen Pauliny’s theory of the origin of the Central Slovak rhythmic law. Pauliny’s views on the rise of the rhythmic law involve the hypothesis that in Central Slovak, in contrast to Western and Eastern Slovak, the... more
This paper classifies dipping tones in the framework of the Multi-Register and Four-Level Model, using new, firsthand acoustic data. Seven dipping types are identified. Four of them are produced in normal clear voice and affiliated with... more
Abstract : this study, which first aim was to demonstrate the correspondences between the Gaulish language and the Slavic languages, between which I found 500 common words, allowed me also to demonstrate, on the basis of genetical,... more
В статье разбирается орфография и языковой материал «Начертания...» В. П. Вишневского (1836), одного из наиболее известных старочувашских памятников первой половины XIX века. Показано, что этот памятник утвердил и популяризовал целый ряд... more
In his works on Slavonic historical phonology, the Ukrainian linguist George Y. Shevelov (1908–2002) studied the system of phonemes in its historical development. The classical phonological methodology, based on the study of synchronic... more
Establishing the origin and dating of the palatalization of the CA and GA clusters in the Rhaeto-Romance languages and in the Cisalpine area is one of the most debated problems in Romance linguistics, also because of the classificatory... more
"Archaisms in the historical phology of Livonian" In this talk I demonstrate how improved understanding of a deep-level proto-language, such as Proto-Uralic, can lead to improved understanding of the history of its daughter groups, such... more
In de recente literatuur over de foiîölogische aspecten van taalcontact wordt ongetwijfeld de meeste aandacht besteed aan de fonetische en fonologische aspecten van ontlening zoals ze zich bij de individuele spreker 'online' afspelen.... more
To appear in The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics, João Costa, Sergio Menuzzi & W. Leo Wetzels, eds. Wiley-Blackwell. Expected late 2015. The present chapter explores the main phonological changes that characterize the linguistic... more
This paper analyses vowel and consonant epentheses in the history of German from the typological perspective of syllable and word languages (Auer 1993, 2001; Szczepaniak 2007a). The prosodic analysis reveals a shift of the epenthetic... more
A word-by-word explanation of the translation of the so-called creation hymn of Rigveda. The translation is very different from traditional ones. As I demonstrate, the hymn has been completely misunderstood by previous translators. The... more
This thesis presents an exploration of the historical phonology of the West Katuic language family (< Katuic < Austroasiatic). West Katuic (WK) is divided into two sub-groups called Kuay and Bru (Ferlus 1974a, Diffloth 1982, Sidwell... more
Abstract: This chapter discusses the application of Optimality Theory to phonological change, and reviews work that treats various aspects of historical phonology, including segmental and prosodic changes, analogy, paradigmatic leveling,... more
This is a draft section of a reference work explaining Manx spelling and pronunciation for a general (not specifically academic) audience of students of Manx and the Gaelic languages. This section consists of an alphabetical index of... more
The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to... more
Fundamentals of English Phonetics and Phonology has been written out of our sincere desire to help the learners of English (especially as second language) to understand better, the definition, formation, description, classification,... more
This paper aims to discuss the linguistic features of Three Han's toponyms (country names Mainly in Mahan 馬韓 and Byeonjin 弁辰) which are based upon the historical records in San Guo zhi 三國志․Wei zhi 魏志·Dong Yi zhuan 東夷傳 by Chen shou 陳壽 in... more
It is a well-known fact that Pashto belongs to those Eastern Iranian languages which show lambdacism. While similarities exist with Bactrian and Munji-Yidgha, which also underwent lambdacism, the situation in Pashto is not exactly the... more
A brief sketch of Old Chinese phonology in the system of Baxter and Sagart (2014)
In historical linguistics, the prevailing view is that sound change is phonetically regular: within one language variety, the same sound in the same phonetic environment always undergoes the same sound changes, regardless of other factors... more
Bailang est une langue transhimalayenne conservée seulement dans les trois « Chants de Bailang » (Bailang ge 白狼歌) reproduits dans l'Histoire des Han postérieurs, le Hòu Hàn shū 漢書漢書 (entre 58 et 75 ec). Profitant pleinement des récents... more
The chapter addresses, after a brief historiographic overview of Ryukyuan historical linguistics, those topics on phonology (vowels, consonants, accent/tone), grammar (verbs, adjectives, case, kakari-musubi) and lexicon (pronouns,... more
A handout for the first half of a class on the historical grammar of Hebrew. This handout mainly focuses on phonology, as morphology and syntax are covered in the second half of the course.
The present study discusses the borrowings from older Indo-Aryan — Sanskrit, Gandhari Prakrit and Proto-Dardic — and early New Persian that have entered the Pashto language. This is carried out through specific phonological features in... more
Evidence from various Semitic languages suggests that 'hollow' verbs should not be reconstructed with a vowel as their middle radical, but with three radical consonants, the middle one being *w or *y. In the past, forms from Biblical... more
This thesis elucidates some of the hitherto poorly understood aspects of the diachronic development of Manx phonology. By tracing phonological changes from earlier varieties of Gaelic, and within the attested period of written and... more