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- Title
The productivity of the feminine ū-stems in Proto-Slavic.
- Authors
Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia
- Abstract
This paper describes the development of the Proto-Slavic ū-declension. The ū-declension became productive at a certain stage of Proto-Slavic and came to include many loanwords. It will be argued in this paper that the productivity started as a phonological development. The earliest - mainly, but not exclusively, Germanic - loanwords show a distribution according to which the words with a stem-final velar became ū-stems, while words with stems ending in other consonants became ā/ jā-stems. At a later stage of Proto-Slavic, the ū-declension became productive for loanwords from other languages as well, and analogously came to include many other words, especially for plants and containers. The spread of the ū-declension is exemplified on the basis of four sets of data: 1.) the Proto-Slavic feminine ā/ jā-stem and ū-stem loanwords in Germanic (Pronk-Tiethoff 2013), 2.) Germanic and German loanwords in Proto-Slavic and post-Proto-Slavic (Knutsson 1929), 3.) Latin and early Romance loanwords in Proto-Slavic and Croatian (Matasović 2011) and 4.) the ū-stems in Polabian, which mainly consist of (Low) German loanwords (Polanski/Sehnert 1967).
- Subjects
PROTO-Slavic language; MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); LOANWORDS; SLAVIC languages -- History; WORD stems (Linguistics); POLABIAN language; MODERN languages -- Inflection
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2014, Vol 59, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0044-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/slaw-2014-0002