Sievers' law and the history of semivowel syllabicity in Indo-European and ancient Greek /

This text is an investigation of how semivowels were realised in Indo-European and in early Greek. It examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Gre...

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Main Author:	Barber, Peter J. (Peter Jeffrey), 1978-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:	Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:	Indo-European languages > Phonology. Indo-European languages > Phonology Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book