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Proto-Indo-European language --- Indo-European languages --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Proto-Aryan language --- Protoindoeuropean language --- Phonology.

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In Reconciling Indo-European Syllabification , Adam Cooper brings together two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure: the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters, which tolerates CVC syllables, and the right-hand vocalization of sonorants, which ostensibly avoids them. Operating from a perspective that is simultaneously empirical, theoretical, and historical in nature, he establishes their compatibility by crafting a formal analysis that integrates them into a single picture of the reconstructed system. More generally, drawing on evidence from Vedic, Greek, and Proto-Indo-European itself, Cooper demonstrates the continued relevance of the ancient Indo-European languages to contemporary linguistic theory, and, moreover, reaffirms the value of the syllable as a unit of phonology, necessary for these languages’ formal representation.

Indo-European languages --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Syllabification. --- Phonology. --- Indo-European languages - Syllabication --- Indo-European languages - Phonology

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Indo-European languages --- Grammar, Comparative --- Phonology --- -Indo-European languages --- -Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Theses --- -Grammar, Comparative --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Environmental ethics. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Phonology. --- Indo-European languages - Grammar, Comparative --- Indo-European languages - Phonology

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The red thread which runs through this book is a quest for relative chronology of linguistic developments. The probability of a reconstruction can be judged against the background of the transitions which it implies for the linguistic system as a whole. The reconstructions are always bottom-up, never top-down. It follows that the chapters on Germanic can be read without reference to the Indo-European background and that the Indo-Uralic part of the book can be left out of consideration if one does not want to look beyond Proto-Indo-European. The initial chapters of the book offer an introduction to the background and methodology of the reconstructions with a discussion of the spread of the Indo-Europeans, the role of general linguistics in linguistic reconstruction, the nature of mixed languages, the origin of the Goths, the relations between Indo-European, Uralic and Caucasian languages, and the structure and development of Proto-Indo-European. The following chapters deal with the phonology and morphosyntax of Indo-European, Greek, Indo-Iranian and Tocharian. These are followed by a discussion of Germanic phonology, verb classes, verbal and nominal inflexion, and specific issues in English, German and Scandinavian languages. After a short treatment of Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic and Italo-Celtic topics, the volume is concluded with a discussion of Anatolian and Indo-Uralic phonology and morphosyntax. The book is of interest to students of Germanic, Indo-European and historical linguistics.

Germanic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Ural-Altaic languages --- Phonology. --- Scythian languages --- Turanian languages --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Altaic languages --- Samoyedic languages --- Germanic languages. --- Indo-European languages. --- Uralic languages. --- Uralian languages --- Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Teutonic languages --- Uralic languages --- History. --- Grammar, Historical --- Phonology, Historical