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The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic

By Nicholas Zair

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2012
ISBN
9004225390, 9789004225398
Google Books ID
6TGSQpTgXOwC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1894059 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics, 7
Pages
xviii+346\365
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-14 16:40:41
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Кельтское языкозна

Description

In The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, Nicholas Zair for the first time collects and assesses all the words from the Celtic languages which contained a laryngeal, and identifies the regular results of the laryngeals in each phonetic environment. This allows him to formulate previously unrecognised sound changes affecting Proto-Celtic, and assess the competing explanations for other developments. This work has far-reaching consequences for the understanding of the historical phonology and morphology of the Celtic languages, and for etymological work involving the Celtic language, along with implications for Indo-European sound laws and the Indo-European syllable. A major conclusion is that the laryngeals cannot be used to argue for an Italo-Celtic language family

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