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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 Greek. |
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| Item Description: | Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191760525 0191760528 |