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Winter's law again [PDF]

, 2010
Since I discussed the scholarly literature on Winter’s law twenty years ago (1988), several important articles on the subject have appeared (Young 1990, Campanile 1994, Matasovic 1995, Derksen 2002, Dybo 2002, Patri 2005, Derksen 2007).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’

Studia Ceranea, 2017
The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian šventas ‘id.’ and Avestan ...
Marek Majer
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More on the chronology of Celtic sound changes [PDF]

, 2010
Graham Isaac’s recent monograph (2007) deals with the chronology of Celtic sound changes. Remarkably, the author completely disregards the relative chronology which I published 28 years earlier (1979).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Accentuation of masculine monosyllabic nouns of Susak speakers in New Jersey [PDF]

, 2011
SUSAKO ŠNEKTOS, VARTOJAMOS NIU DŽERSYJE, VYRIŠKOSIOS GIMINĖS VIENSKIEMENIŲ DAIKTAVARDŽIŲ KIRČIAVIMASSantraukaSlavų akcentologijoje akcentinės paradigmos d teorija yra kontraversiška dėl keleto priežasčių, visų pirma dėl garso įrašų iš tarmių, kuriose ...
Miriam-Maria Shrager
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The etymology of laz

Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019
Proto-Slavic *lzъ lza m. ‛(fallow) field or meadow created where there used to be forest’ is explained as derived from Proto-Indo-European *lo-ós, the o-grade form of *le- with Balto-Slavic lengthening according to Winter’s law.
Simona Klemenčič
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Reconstructing Balto-Slavic and Indo-European

Baltistica, 2014
The history of Indo-European studies shows that the reconstruction of the proto-language is likely to have a bias toward the languages on which it relies primarily. It has always been popular to explain the data of more recently attested languages from a
Frederik Kortlandt
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From Serbo-Croatian to Indo-European [PDF]

, 2010
The history of Slavic accentuation is complex. As a result, the significance of the Slavic accentual evidence is not immediately obvious to the average Indo-Europeanist.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Genesis of the Genitive of Negation in Balto-Slavic and Its Evidence in Contemporary Slovenian

Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019
Genitive of negation is a Balto-Slavic syntactic rule that governs the transformation of accusative complements of transitive verbs or subjects of existential constructions in positive sentences to genitive complements in negative sentences.
Žiga Pirnat
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Tocharian-Slavic lexical parallels – new comparisons

Linguistica Brunensia, 2019
The article begins with an overview of the previous literature studying the Tocharian-(Balto-)Slavic lexical and morphological parallels was summarized. In this context three new comparisons were presented: 1. Tocharian A kuk*, du. kukäṃ 'heel'; B kuke*,
Václav Blažek
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Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic I [PDF]

, 2010
The large majority of the isoglosses which can be established in the South Slavic dialectal area date from the time of the disintegration of Common Slavic and from more recent periods (e.g., Ivi´c 1958: 25ff).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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