Kurt Goblirsch (University of South Carolina)

Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening

On the History of Quantity in Germanic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781108928946
• ISBN-10: 1108928943
• Artikelnr.: 60007229

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.