Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening - On the History of Quantity in Germanic

Informationen zum Autor Kurt Goblirsch is professor of German and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He is author of Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects (1994), Lautverschiebungen in den germanischen Sprachen (2005), and is co-editor of the journal NOWELE. Klappentext The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening. Zusammenfassung Of interest to German! Dutch! Frisian! English! and Scandinavian linguists! and also those in general historical linguistics! phonology! and Indo-European! this book examines the relationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic language group: consonant lengthening! vowel lengthening! and consonant weakening! highlighting the role of syllable structure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. The road to complementary length: gemination and quantity in Old Germanic; 3. Arriving at the goal: vowel lengthening in Middle Germanic; 4. The reaction of consonants: lenition in Middle Germanic; 5. Quantity types in Modern Germanic.

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• Authors: Kurt Goblirsch, Kurt (University of South Carolina) Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav Goblirsch, Professor Kurt (University of South Car Goblirsch, Professor Kurt (University of South Carolina) Goblirsch, GOBLIRSCH KURT
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107034501
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03450-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages, Historical and comparative linguistics