Sievers Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo European and Ancient Gree

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About the author

P. J. Barber is a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford. His interests include Indo-European, Greek, and Indo-Iranian phonology, Greek verbal semantics, and contemporary syntactic theory.

Summary

This book is an investigation of how semivowels were realised in Indo-European and in early Greek. It examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Greek.

Additional text

Barbers book is a valuable contribution to the field, and will be a standard work on the shelves of those interested in Greek historical phonology.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Barber, P. J. Barber, Peter (Departmental Lecturer in Comparativ Barber, Barber Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 24.10.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780199680504
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968050-4
• Pages: 454
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Linguistics, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Indo-European languages, Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Historical and comparative linguistics