The Indo-European Syllable

✍ Scribed by Andrew Miles Byrd

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 15
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In The Indo-European Syllable Andrew Miles Byrd investigates the process of syllabification within Proto-Indo-European (PIE), revealing connections to a number of seemingly unrelated phonological processes in the proto-language.

Drawing from insights in linguistic typology and synchronic theory, he makes two significant advances in our understanding of PIE phonology. First, by analyzing securely reconstructable consonant clusters at word’s edge, he devises a methodology which allows us to predict which types of consonant clusters could occur word-medially in PIE. Thus, a number of previously disconnected phonological rules can now be understood as being part of a conspiracy motivated by violations in syllable structure. Second, he uncovers evidence of morphological influence within the syllable, created by processes such as quantitative ablaut. These advances allow us to view PIE as a synchronic grammar, one which can be described by -- and contribute to -- modern linguistic theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1: Preliminaries
1 An Overview of the Indo-European Sound System
2 Phonological Theory & Past Views of the Indo-European Syllable
Part 2: The Proposal
3 The Maximum Syllable Template
4 Schindler’s Exceptions and the Phonology-Morphology Interface
Part 3: Ramifications
5 Motivating Sievers’ Law
6 Motivating Pinault’s Law
7 The Indo-European Syllable: A Review
Part 4: Appendices
A Index of Indo-European Roots & Words
B Proto-Indo-European Edge Phonotactics
C Glossary of Concepts and Constraints
D Research Study on -ic Formations

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Индоевропейское языкознание;