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The New Sound of Indo-European: Essays in Phonological Reconstruction. Proceedings of a workshop held during the Seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics held Sept. 9-13, 1985 at the University of Pavia

By Theo Vennemann

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
1989
ISBN
0899255213, 9780899255217
Google Books ID
s7LuNvgfv0IC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9657073 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 41
Edition
Reprint 2011
Pages
XVI+300\318
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-07-13 08:25:57

Description

The Seventh International Conference for Historical Linguistics, which took place at the University of Pavia from 9 to 13 September, 1985, included a workshop titled Reconstructions of the Proto-Indo-European Sound System and Their Consequences. While the Workshop was in no way intended to be prejudiced for or against any particular topic and approach in Proto-Indo-European phonology, almost the entire discussion, either positively or negatively, involved only two themes, the second of them to double the extent of the first: the Laryngeal Theory and the Glottalic Theory. Some of the papers and discussions contribute to one of the two, some argue against them, some use them as starting points and actually go beyond them. Yet the affinity to either the one or the other is in almost all cases great enough to warrant their subsumption under one of these two headings.

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