Noises and nuisances in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European linguistics
- It is gratifying to see that Jay Jasanoff has now (2004) adopted my theory that "the Balto-Slavic acute was a kind of stød or broken tone" (p. 172), which I have been advocating since 1973. Unfortunately, his acceptance of my view is not based on an evaluation of the comparative evidence (for which see Kortlandt 1985a) but on his desire to derive Balto-Slavic “acute” and "circumflex" syllables from the "bimoric" and "trimoric" long vowels which he assumes for Proto-Germanic as the reflexes of the Indo-European "acute" and "circumflex" tones of the neogrammarians. Since the original "circumflex" was limited to Indo-European VHV-sequences, Jasanoff proposes a whole series of additional lengthenings yielding "hyperlong" vowels in Germanic, Baltic and Slavic, which still do not suffice to eliminate the counter-evidence (cf. Kortlandt 2004b: 14). The reason for this failure is his unwillingness to recognize that lengthened grade vowels are circumflex in Balto-Slavic (cf. Kortlandt 1997a).
| Author: | Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157322 |
| URL: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art227e.pdf |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/12 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/12 |
| GND Keyword: | Baltische Sprachen; Indogermanische Sprachen |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 3 |
| Note: | Postprint, Korrigierte Version, zuerst in: Baltistica 40.2005, Heft 1, S. 9-11 |
| Source: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art227e.pdf ; (in:) Baltistica 40, 1, 2005, S. 9-11 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 228659795 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
