Reconciling Indo-European syllabification / / by Adam I. Cooper.
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...
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Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, Volume 13 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ;
Volume 13. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (397 p.) |
Notes: | "This volume is a substantially revised version of my Cornell University dissertation, entitled "Syllable Nucleus and Margin in Greek, Vedic, and Proto-Indo-European", which was defended in September 2011 and filed in January 2012." |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / 1 Introduction / 2 The Syllabification of Medial Consonant Clusters in Vedic / 3 Formal Analysis of Vedic Medial Syllabification / 4 Complementary Evidence for Medial Consonant Syllabification from the History of Greek / 5 On the Syllabifications VOO.RV, VR.OOV / 6 Background and Preliminaries / 7 Previous Optimality-Theoretic Accounts of Sonorant Syllabicity / 8 A New Approach to Proto-Indo-European Sonorant Syllabicity / 9 Nucleus Selection as a Morphophonological Operation? / 10 Implications and Typology of the Phonological Analysis of Sonorant Syllabicity / 11 Conclusion and Future Directions / Appendix / References / Index of Words / Index of Names / Index of Subjects / Index of Constraints / |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9004281959 |
ISSN: | 1875-6328 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Adam I. Cooper. |