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The Accents of Celtic

New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages

Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVIII, 430 Seiten

2023
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg
978-3-8253-9503-2 (ISBN)

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The key to the phonetic development of a given word across time lies in its accentuation. As the Old Celtic remains do not indicate their accent, it has to be deduced from their sound-changes. This book investigates for the first time in depth 14 Celtic phenomena resulting from the weakening of unstressed syllables (vocalic assimilations and reductions up to syncope, degeminations, 'w'-loss, nasal effacement, metathesis of liquids) and the strengthening of stressed ones (vocalic epenthesis and diphthongizations, geminations of consonants). The stress-patterns emerging from them are corroborated by the originally Celtic toponymy in today's non-Celtic-speaking countries and allow us to reconstruct the Celtic subfamily of languages by drawing a much simpler accentual model which also finds typological support. With its diachronic discussion of more than 3,600 words the book represents, moreover, a big help in the understanding of Celtic lexicon and onomastics.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Indogermanische Bibliothek, 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen
Zusatzinfo	2 Diagramme, 13 Tabellen
Verlagsort	Heidelberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 245 mm
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Altertum • Antike • Betonung • Bretonisch • Britannisch • Epigraphik • Etymologie • gallisch • Goidelisch • Historische Sprachwissenschaft • Inschriften • Irisch • Keltiberisch • keltisch • Lautwandel • Lepontisch • Manx • Mittelalter • Namenforschung • Onomastik • Personennamen • Schottisch-Gaelisch • Sprachgeschichte • Theonymik • Toponymik • Trümmersprachen • Vannetais • Walisisch • word-stress • Wortbildung
ISBN-10	3-8253-9503-0 / 3825395030
ISBN-13	978-3-8253-9503-2 / 9783825395032
Zustand	Neuware