Kortlandt Frederik. Baltica & Balto-Slavica

Rodopi, 2009. — 454 p. — (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 16).This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter's law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/jā stems, and thematic and athematic present endings. The second half of the book contains a comparative analysis of the three Prussian catechisms, resulting in the conclusion that they represent three consecutive stages of a real linguistic system. It includes a discussion of the Prussian accent shift, initial vowels, diphthongs, infinitives, verb classes, participles and traces of ablauting paradigms. The final part of the book offers a full linguistic interpretation of the three Prussian catechisms on the basis of the preceding chapters, followed by a list of references and a word index. The book is of interest to Balticists, Slavicists, Indo-Europeanists, and other historical linguists.Baltica & Balto-Slavica
DedicationIntroduction.
Phonology.
Chronology.
Historical Laws of Baltic accentuation.
Innovations which betrary archaisms.
Shortening and metatony in the Lithuanian future.
Holger Pedersen's Études lituaniennes revisited.
Balto-Slavic.
Indo-European palatovelars before resonants in Balto-Slavic.
Three problems of Balto-Slavic phonology.
The development of the Indo-Europeans syllabic resonants in Balto-SLavic.
Balto-Slavic phonological developments.
Accent.
Long vowels in Balto-Slavic.
PIE lengthened grade in Balto-Slavic.
Remarks on Winter's law.
Winter's law again.
The rise and fall of glottaization in Baltic and Slavic.
Balto-Slavic accentuation: Some news travels slowly.
Noises and nuisances in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European linguistics.
Miscellaneous remarks on Balto-Slavic accentuation.
Final stress in Balto-SLavic mobile paradigms.
On the accentuation of the illative.
Balto-Slavic accetual mobility.
Accent retraction and tonogenesis.
Morphology.
Nouns.
On the history of the genotove plural in Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, and Indo-European.
Gothic gen.pl. -e.
Baltic ē-and ī/jā-stems.
Old prussian -snā, Lithuanian -sena, Latvian -šana.
PRONOUNS.
Demonstrative pronouns in Balto-Slavic, Armenian, and Tocharian.
Tokie šalti rytai.
Verbs.
Towards a reconstruction of the Balto-Slavic verbal system.
Slavic imamb.
Lithuanian statýti and related formations.
The etymology of Latvian nãkt 'to come'.
Lithuanian verbs in -auti and -uoti.
Lithuanian tekėti and related formations.
Prussian.
Philology.
Van Wijk's Altpreussische Student revisited.
The development of the Prussian language in the 16th century.
Two Old Prussian fragments.
who is who in the Old Prussian epigram?
Paragogic -e in the Old Prussian epigram.
The language of the Old Prussian catechisms.
An analysis of the Prussian First Catechism.
The linguistic position of the Prussian Second Catechism.
Phonology.
Old Prussian accentuation.
Double consoniants Old Prussian.
The Prussian accent shift.
Initial a- and e- in Old Prussian.
Diphthongization and monophthongization in Old Prussian.
Old Prussian diphthongs.
Morphology.
Old Prussian infinitives in -ton and -twei.
The formation of the Old Prussian present tense.
The Old Prussian preterit.
Old Prussian verb classes.
Old Prussian verb classes reconsidered.
Old Prussian participles.
Old Prussian numerals.
Old Prussian pronouns.
The Old Prussian personal endings.
Texts.
The Prussian Catechismus I (1545).
The Prussian Catechisms II (1545).
The Prussian Enchiridion (1561).
References.
Index.