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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter J Barber |
ISBN: | 9780191760525 0191760528 9780199680504 0199680507 |
OCLC Number: | 879860926 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | PREFACE; PART 1: EVIDENCE FOR SIEVERS' LAW AND THE POSSIBILITY OH INHERITANCE; PART II: GREEK NOMINAL CATEGORIES; PART III: VERBAL CATEGORIES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
Series Title: | Oxford classical monographs |
Responsibility: | Peter Barber. |
Abstract:
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.
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We are fortunate to have Barber's fine-grained study of the Greek data to further pursue such questions. * D.M. Goldstein, The Classical Journal Online * The book is bound to become an important reference work for scholars working on Indo-European syllabification or on Greek historical grammar. * Lucien van Beek, Mnemosyne * 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. * O. B. Simkin, Gnomom * Read more...
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