The origins of Slavonic
Subtitle: Language contact and language change
Series: LINCOM studies in Slavic linguistics, 29
Publisher: LINCOM Europa
Published: 2007
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9783895860713
Subjects: Proto-Slavic language -- History.; Slavic languages -- History.; Slavs -- Origin.
Description: viii, 179 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.; bibliography, p. 162
Table of contents: title: Foreword … iii; title: Abbreviations … iv; title: Illustrations … vi; title: Acknowledgements … viii; title: ◦; title: 1. INTRODUCTION … 1; title: ◦; title: 2. THEORETICAL PARAMETERS … 6; title: ◦; title: 2.1 Introductory Remarks … 6; title: 2.2 From Early Philological to Neogrammarian Theories of Language Change … 8; title: 2.3 The Neogrammarian Approach to Language Change … 11; title: 2.4 Structural and Generative Linguistics … 12; title: 2.5 The Object of Study … 18; title: 2.6 Definition of Terms … 20; title: 2.7 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Change … 23; title: 2.8  Language Change … 25; title: 2.9  The Ontogeny of Linguistic Change … 28; title: 2.10  The Function of Linguistic Change … 30; title: 2.11  The Mechanisms and Phylogeny of Linguistic Change … 30; title: 2.12  Phonological Mechanisms … 30; title: 2.13  Morphological Mechanisms … 31; title: 2.14  Syntactic Mechanisms … 33; title: 2.15  Towards a Phylogeny of Change … 34; title: 2.16  Macromechanical and Micromechanical Linguistic Change … 35; title: 2.17  Lack of Concrete Divisions with the Hierarchy and Mechanisms of Change … 36; title: 2.18  The Actuation of Change … 37; title: 2.19  ‘Critical Mass’ and the Punctuated Equilibrium Model … 41; title: 2.20  Linguistic Contact … 47; title: 2.21  The Role of Context in Linguistic Change … 49; title: 2.22  Summary … 49; title: ◦; title: 3. HISTORY … 51; title: ◦; title: 3.1  Introduction … 51; title: 3.2  Environmental Factors … 56; title: 3.3  The Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age … 59; title: 3.4  The Middle Bronze Age, the Late Bronze Age, and the Classical Period … 62; title: 3.5  The Cimmerians … 67; title: 3.6  The Scythians … 68; title: 3.7  The Greek Colonies … 70; title: 3.8  The Sarmatians … 71; title: 3.9  The Early Slavs: Some Preliminary Remarks … 71; title: 3.10  The Early Slavs: Review of Primary Sources … 72; title: 3.11  The Early Slavs: Archaeological Evidence … 75; title: 3.12  Review of Traditional Assessments of IE Expansion and Consolidation … 81; title: 3.13  The Demic Diffusion Model … 85; title: 3.14  The Pre-Proto-Indo-Europeans, Proto-Indo-Europeans, and Slavs … 91; title: 3.15  Summary … 98; title: ◦; title: 4. LANGUAGE … 100; title: ◦; title: 4.1  Introductory Remarks … 100; title: 4.2  10, 000 Years BP: Pre-Proto-Indo-European … 102; title: 4.3  The Grammatical Structures of Pre-Proto-Indo- European … 109; title: 4.4  6th Millennium BCE-5th Millennium BCE: From Pre- Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Indo-European … 115; title: 4.5  The Significance of the PPIE-PIE Typological Shift … 117; title: 4.6  Transitional (Early Proto-Indo-European) Phonetics and Phonology … 117; title: 4.7  Transitional Morphology … 121; title: 4.8  Transitional Lexicon … 122; title: 4.9  5th Millennium BCE-3rd Millennium BCE: Proto-Indo- European … 123; title: 4.10  Proto-Indo-European Morphology … 126; title: 4.11  3000-2000 BCE: Balto-Slavonic … 129; title: 4.12  Balto-Slavonic Phonetics and Phonology … 131; title: 4.13  Balto-Slavonic Morphology and Syntax … 132; title: 4.14  2000 BCE-1000 CE: Proto-Slavonic and Common Slavonic … 134; title: 4.15  Proto-Slavonic Phonology … 136; title: 4.16  Syllabic Synharmonism and Rising Sonority … 138; title: 4.17  Common Slavonic Phonology … 144; title: 4.18  LCS Dialect Areas … 147; title: 4.19 Elimination of Diphthongs in Liquid Sonorants … 147; title: 4.20  Development of Palatalized Dental Stops … 149; title: 4.21  The Evolution of the Jers … 150; title: 4.22  Proto- and Common Slavonic Morphology and Syntax … 150; title: 4.23  Lexical Borrowings into Proto- and Common Slavonic … 153; title: 4.24  Summary … 156; title: ◦; title: 5. CONCLUSION … 158; title: ◦; title: Bibliography … 162; title: Index … 176