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- Title
Tone variation in the Baltic ia-presents.
- Authors
Svensson, Miguel Villanueva
- Abstract
The ia-presents frequently present tone variants in the dialects, e. g. Lith. spr̨ę́sti, spréndžia, spréndė ∼ sprę̃sti, spreñdžia, spreñdė 'decide', lémti, lẽmia, lė̃mė ∼ lemti, lẽmia, lė̃mė 'predetermine'. In the case of °ER- and °EU-roots acute intonation is clearly expansive, whereas the circumflex is strongly favored in the case of roots in °ERK-, °EUK-, °ĒK-. A complete survey of the evidence shows that circumflex/acute variation is extremely widespread among ia-presents of °ERK-/°EUK-/°ĒK-roots and that acute intonation is clearly the original one, thus pointing to a general trend invariant acute → circumflex/acute variation → invariant acute or invariant circumflex. The circumflex variants probably arose in the ē-preterite: *sprénd-ˈii̯ā > *ˈspreñd-e > Lith. dial. spreñdė. In most controllable cases the original acute is due to regular sound law (a laryngeal or Winter's Law), whereas a minority of examples most probably continue Indo-European Narten formations.
- Subjects
BALTIC languages; TONE (Phonetics); INDO-European languages; PHONEMICS; LARYNGEALS (Phonetics); PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 2014, Vol 119, Issue 1, p227
- ISSN
0019-7262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/if-2014-0012