The New Sound of Indo-European

Essays in Phonological Reconstruction

Theo Vennemann

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110105360
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110857344
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• I. Opening remarks
• Comments on reconstructions in historical linguistics
• Reconstruction and historical linguistics [Discussion of Koerner’s paper]
• II. Laryngeal Theory
• The nature of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals
• The Laryngeal Theory and the phonology of Prehistoric Greek
• Laryngeal metathesis: An Aryan peculiarity?
• Against a Proto-Indo-European phoneme *a
• Monophthongizations: More plausible than laryngeals!
• Discussions of papers on Laryngeal Theory
• On (the nature of) Proto-Indo-European laryngeals [Discussion of Bammesberger’s and Beekes’s papers]
• Remarks on R. S. P. Beekes, ‘The nature of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals’
• III. Glottalic Theory
• Historical Italic phonology in typological perspective
• Lachmann’s law
• Phonological and morphological consequences of the ‘Glottalic Theory’
• Language typology and Indo-European reconstruction
• Sound change typology and the ‘Ejective Model’
• Neue Forschungen zur germanischen Lautverschiebung – ein Fall von Paradigmenwechsel?
• Die Tenues Aspiratae: Dreiteilung oder Vierteilung des indogermanischen Plosivsystems und die Konsequenzen dieser Frage für die Chronologie einer Glottalreihe
• Towards a characterization of the Proto-Indo-European sound system
• The Indo-European obstruent features and phonotactic constraints
• Discussions of papers on Glottalic Theory
• Latin phonology and the ‘Glottalic Model’ [Discussion of Baldi – Johnston-Staver’s, Kortlandt’s, and Vennemann’s papers]
• Remarks on Baldi – Johnston-Staver, ‘Historical Italic phonology in typological perspective’
• Remarks on F. Kortlandt, ‘Lachmann’s law’
• Letter to Theo Vennemann
• Reply to Claude Boisson’s remarks
• Remarks on T. V. Gamkrelidze, ‘Language typology and Indo-European reconstruction’
• Indo-European consonant shifts – Algebra, arithmetic, or normal science? [Discussion of Job’s and Schrodt’s papers]
• Remarks on J. E. Rasmussen, ‘Die Tenues Aspiratae: Dreiteilung oder Vierteilung des indogermanischen Plosivsystems und die Konsequenzen dieser Frage für die Chronologie einer Glottalreihe’
• Erwiderung auf Paul J. Hoppers ‘Remarks’
• ‘Das Arlbergmodell’ – ein Diskussionsbeitrag
• Lettre aux participants de l’Atelier sur l’indo-européen du Congrès de Pavie
• IV. Concluding remarks
• Notes on the Workshop: Reconstructions of the Proto-Indo-European sound system and their consequences
• Index of forms
• Index of names