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George Y. Shevelovʼs Contribution to Slavic Historical- Comparative Linguistics with a Focus on Language Contact: Remarks on A Prehistory of Slavic On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the Ukrainian linguist G. Y.
Vít Boček
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Evolution of the Burmese vowel system [PDF]
Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest attested records.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Two more contexts for Ge‘ez *u > u and three for *a > ǝ
The main Ge‘ez (Classical Ethiopic) verbal adjective is characterized by an ǝ-u vowel melody. Based on cognate evidence, the most basic form of this adjective, 01-stem 1ǝ2u3, derives from a *1a2uː3- pattern and thus shows assimilation of *aCuː > ǝCu ...
Benjamin Suchard
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Historical Phonology from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Livonian
This article serves as an attempt to reconstruct the approximate chronological order of the major sound laws between (Late) Proto-Finnic and Proto-Livonian.
Petri Kallio
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]
This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde +39 more
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Structural phonemes in the Linguistic research in Previously and Currently
Linguistic sounds are studied by two branches: phonetics and phonology. The orientalists have studied Arabic phonemes and their phonetic variance like slanting or intensification in the field of phonetics because they are pronunciational changes that do
Dr. Bushra Hussein Ali Al-Fadhli
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The Croatian Hydronym and Choronym Líka and its Presumed Relatives Lech, Liẽkė, etc.
The Croatian hydronym and choronym Lika is often mentioned together with the hydronym Lech (Austria, Bavaria) and with a group of Lithuanian and Latvian hydronyms and other toponyms and appellatives. They are all presumed to be based on the PIE root *(h1)
Harald Bichlmeier
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In Baltistica 46(1), Miguel Villanueva Svensson presents a defence of the so-called “traditional” view on the development of long vowels in Balto-Slavic, in opposition to the views of the “Leiden school” (see Frederik Kortlandt’s Long vowels in Balto ...
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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An overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology [PDF]
Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto-Burman language family, little research has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the Old Tibetan phonemic system by associating sound values with the ...
Beckwith +78 more
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Doubled up all over again: borrowing, sound change and reduplication in Iwaidja [PDF]
This article examines the interactions between reduplication, sound change, and borrowing, as played out in the Iwaidja language of Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, in Northern Australia, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Iwaidjan family.
Evans, Nicholas
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