The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Indo-European Background -- 1.1 Proto-Indo-European -- 1.1.1 The Segmental Inventory -- 1.1.2 Accent and Ablaut -- 1.2 Indo-Iranian -- 1.2.1 Udātta and svarita -- 1.2.2 Paradigmatic Mobility -- 1.2.3 Distractable Long Vowels -- 1.3 Greek -- 1.3.1 Acute and Circumflex -- 1.3.2 The Law of Limitation -- 1.3.3 Final -ai and -oi -- 1.3.4 Paradigmatic Mobility in Greek -- 1.4 Anatolian -- 1.5 Germanic -- 1.5.1 Bimoric and Trimoric Vowels -- 1.5.2 Verner Doublets -- 1.6 Accent and Ablaut in Secondary Derivation -- 1.6.1 Internal Derivation -- 1.6.2 External Derivation -- 1.7 Theoretical Issues -- 1.7.1 The Generative-compositional Approach -- 1.7.2 Discussion -- 1.7.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Balto-Slavic: The Descriptive Picture -- 2.1 Lithuanian -- 2.1.1 Acute and Circumflex -- 2.1.2 Acuteness as a Property of Morphemes -- 2.1.3 The Autonomy of Acuteness -- 2.1.4 Saussure's Law -- 2.1.5 Mobility -- 2.1.6 Žemaitian -- 2.1.7 Summary -- 2.2 Slavic -- 2.2.1 Rising and Falling Accents -- 2.2.2 Enclinomena -- 2.2.3 Stang -- 2.2.3.1 Accent Paradigm a -- 2.2.3.2 Accent Paradigm c and Meillet's Law -- 2.2.3.3 Accent Paradigm b -- 2.2.4 Dybo's Law -- 2.2.5 Lexical vs. Left-marginal Accent -- 2.2.6 The Autonomy of Acuteness in Slavic -- 2.2.7 Componential Interpretation of the Slavic Accents -- 2.2.8 Slavic vs. Lithuanian -- 2.3 Latvian and Old Prussian -- 2.3.1 Latvian -- 2.3.2 Old Prussian -- 2.4 Conclusion: Proto-Balto-Slavic -- 2.4.1 Accent -- 2.4.2 Acuteness -- 2.4.3 Summary -- Chapter 3 The Origin of Acuteness -- 3.1 The Scope of the Problem -- 3.2 Jasanoff 2004: Acuteness from Length -- 3.2.1 Balto-Slavic and Germanic -- 3.2.2 Acute vs. Non-acute Diphthongs -- 3.3 Kortlandt: Acuteness from Glottalic Contact -- 3.4 The Treatment of Inherent Long Vowels -- 3.4.1 Métatonie Douce.

3.4.2 Vr̥ddhi and Narten Derivation -- 3.4.3 Final Syllables -- 3.4.4 Diphthongal Endings -- 3.4.5 Monosyllables -- 3.5 Acute vs. Circumflex in Verbal Forms -- 3.5.1 BCS dònijeh, ùmrijeh, zàkleh, rȉjeh -- 3.5.2 PSl. *dȃ, Lith. duõs -- 3.5.3 Lith. gé̇rė vs. bė̃rė -- 3.6 Summary -- Chapter 4 Mobility and the Left-Marginal Accent -- 4.1 Post-mobility Accent Shifts: Hirt's Law -- 4.2 Theories of Mobility -- 4.2.1 Saussure 1896 -- 4.2.2 Oxytonicity and Mobility -- 4.2.3 Evaluation -- 4.2.4 Olander 2009 -- 4.3 Toward a New Theory -- 4.3.1 Verbs -- 4.3.2 The Structure of a Theory of Mobility -- 4.4 Saussure-Pedersen's Law -- 4.4.1 Saussure Revisited -- 4.4.2 The "Obstacles" -- 4.4.3 The Rule -- 4.4.4 Phonetics and Phonology of SPL -- 4.5 Proto-Vasil'ev-Dolobko's Law -- 4.5.1 Word Length and Accent Placement -- 4.5.2 The Rule and Its Effects -- 4.5.3 The Origin of VDL -- Chapter 5 Mobility in Nominal Forms -- 5.1 ā-, i-, and u-stems: The Light Cases -- 5.1.1 The Common Curve -- 5.1.2 Nominative Singular (x . . x̍) -- 5.1.3 Genitive Singular (x . . x̍) -- 5.1.4 Dative Singular (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.1.5 Accusative Singular (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.1.6 Locative Singular (x . . x̍) -- 5.1.7 Nominative Plural (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.1.8 Accusative Plural (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.1.9 Nominative-accusative Dual (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.2 Masculine o-stems: The Light Cases -- 5.2.1 Forms Conforming to the Normal Curve -- 5.2.2 Forms Not Conforming to the Normal Curve -- 5.2.2.1 o-stem Genitive Singular (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.2.2.2 o-stem Locative Singular (x᷅ . . x) -- 5.2.2.3 o-stem Nominative Plural (x . . x̍) -- 5.2.3 Summary: The Masculine o-stem Curve (Light Cases) -- 5.3 The Heavy Cases -- 5.3.1 Proto-VDL in nouns -- 5.3.2 Genitive Plural (x . . x̍) -- 5.3.3 Dative Plural (x . . x̍) -- 5.3.4 Instrumental Plural (x . . x̍) -- 5.3.5 Locative Plural (x . . x̍) -- 5.3.6 Dative and Instrumental Dual (x . . x̍).

5.3.7 Addendum: the Instrumental Singular -- 5.4 Neuters -- 5.4.1 o-stems -- 5.4.1.1 The Nom.-Acc. Endings -- 5.4.1.2 The Treatment of Oxytone Neuters -- 5.4.1.3 Illič-Svityč's Law -- 5.4.1.4 Root-accented o-stem Neuters -- 5.4.1.5 Summary: Accent and Gender in Non-acute o-stems in Slavic -- 5.4.2 Neuter Consonant Stems -- 5.5 Pronouns -- 5.5.1 Demonstratives -- 5.5.2 Personal Pronouns -- 5.6 Valency -- 5.6.1 Dominant vs. Recessive -- 5.6.2 Secondary Derivatives -- 5.6.3 The Derivational Accent Rule -- 5.6.4 Valency: Summary -- Chapter 6 Mobility in the Verb -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 Thematic Presents -- 6.2.1 The Simple Thematic Type -- 6.2.1.1 Explaining Mobility -- 6.2.1.2 The Accentuation of the Optative -- 6.2.1.3 The Extension of the Mobile Pattern -- 6.2.1.4 tudáti-presents and Thematic Barytonization -- 6.2.2 Extended Thematic Presents -- 6.2.2.1 Nasal Presents -- 6.2.2.2 The Baltic Presents in -sta- -- 6.2.2.3 Presents in *-i̯e/o- -- 6.2.3 Thematic Presents: Summary -- 6.3 "Semithematic" Presents in Baltic -- 6.3.1 The Baltic Presents in *-ā- -- 6.3.2 The Baltic Presents in *-ĭ- -- 6.3.3 Immobility in i-presents -- 6.4 The Slavic type in *-i-, inf. *-iti -- 6.4.1 The "Regular" Forms -- 6.4.2 AP b1 vs. b2 -- 6.4.3 "Poluotmetnost'" -- 6.4.4 The Origin of AP b2 -- 6.5 Athematic Presents -- 6.6 Beyond the Present System -- 6.6.1 Mobility and Valency in the Slavic Verb -- 6.6.2 The Infinitive and Supine -- 6.6.3 The Aorist -- 6.6.4 Participles -- 6.6.5 Baltic -- Chapter 7 Summary -- 7.1 From PIE to Proto-Balto-Slavic -- 7.2 From Proto-Balto-Slavic to the Later Languages -- Appendix: Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index of Forms Cited.

In The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent Jay Jasanoff offers a much-needed guide to the accentual changes that set Baltic and Slavic apart from the rest of the Indo-European family.

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