1. The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent
- Author
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Jay Jasanoff and Jay Jasanoff
- Subjects
- Baltic languages--Accents and accentuation, Slavic languages--Accents and accentuation, Indo-European languages--Accents and accentuation
- Abstract
The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent has been written to fill a gap. The interested non-specialist can easily learn about the complex accent systems of the individual Baltic and Slavic languages and how they relate to each other. But the reader interested in the Proto-Balto-Slavic parent system, and how it evolved from the very different system of Proto-Indo-European, has few reliable places to turn. The goal of this book is to provide an accentological interface between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic—to identify and explain the accent shifts and other early changes that give the earliest stages of Baltic and Slavic their distinctive prosodic cast.
- Published
- 2017